Lawmakers, civil society representatives and NGOs in Pakistan’s Balochistan Province have stated that the region has the lowest female literacy rates anywhere in the world, with some women’s organisations claiming the authorities “were not making serious efforts to address this issue.” The region also has an increasing female mortality rate. Women and girls in the region have...
Lawmakers, civil society representatives and NGOs in Pakistan’s Balochistan Province have stated that the region has the lowest female literacy rates anywhere in the world, with some women’s...
Disney has come under heavy scrutiny for its latest production of Mulan, most of which was filmed in the Xinjiang Autonomous Region in China. In the final credits of the film, Disney specifically thanked...
The Iraqi Kurdistan region is facing an environmental crisis due to Iran’s damming of the two main rivers in the region – the Sirwan and the Little Zab. Nearly two million people depend on...
The Central Tibetan Administration, based in Dharamsala, India, has released its August 2020 newsletter on the human rights situation in Tibet. As mentioned in the newsletter, the human rights situation...
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has condemned Xi Jinping’s newly announced policy to ‘sinicise’ Tibet, which the Central Tibetan Administration has called “an attempt by China’s...
One of the three political leaders of Barotseland, Likando Pelekelo (65), who had been imprisoned for advocating independence for Barotseland, has died in a prison in Zambia. The circumstances of the death...
The increasing evidence of severe human rights abuses perpetrated by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) against the Uyghur minority population in the Xinjiang Autonomous Region in China has left many countries...
Demonstrations across Iran last Thursday and Friday have been violently suppressed, continuing a trend of the use of extreme force to quell dissent among the Iranian public. According to Iranian Human...
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