Afghanistan
Millions Forced Back to Afghanistan as Aid Shrinks
Iran and Pakistan have expelled Afghans in their millions, including people born abroad, into a country where more than 400 health facilities closed last year.
Category: Rights
Human rights, civil liberties, migration and the courts.
Afghanistan Has 3.8 Million Girls Out of School
A quarter of a million more are excluded from secondary education each year, in what UN officials have described as the creation of a…
Afghanistan Reaches Five Years of Taliban Rule
Restrictions on women and girls have been written into law and 21.9 million people need aid, as the fifth anniversary of the takeover approaches…
India Makes Insulting National Song an Offence
Parliament passed a bill bringing Vande Mataram under the law protecting the national flag, with the DMK opposing it in the Rajya Sabha as…
Myanmar Releases Rare Photographs of Aung San Suu Kyi Meeting a Red Cross Official
The military-backed government says the detained Nobel laureate, 81, met the ICRC representative in Naypyitaw. Her son says nobody has briefed him on her…
Indonesian Ferry Fire Leaves Five Dead and an Unknown Number Missing off East Java
The Mutiara Sentosa 2 caught fire between Surabaya and Makassar. Officials say they cannot yet confirm how many people were on board when it…
Amnesty Urges Zambia to Free Detained Journalist
The rights group says charges against MacPherson Mukuka should be dropped, in a case monitors place within a wider pattern of legal pressure on…
EU Calls Emergency Meeting on Ceuta Border Crisis
Interior ministers meet by video on Tuesday after tens of thousands crossed from Morocco into the Spanish enclave, with Madrid and Rabat differing on…
Chained on a Punjab Dairy Farm, a Tamil Nadu Man Goes Home After 23 Years
Prakash left Coimbatore in 2003 after a family quarrel. Rescued in 2022 from a Punjab dairy farm where he was allegedly chained, he is…
Displaced Lebanese Pool Money for Satellite Images to See If Their Homes Still Stand
Barred from returning, residents of Yaroun and other villages are buying commercial satellite images to find out whether their homes are still standing.
Sonam Wangchuk Ends 26-Day Hunger Strike Over India’s Exam Paper Leaks
The 59-year-old activist ended his fast after talks with two federal ministers. Two days later the education minister resigned and the protest movement stood…
ICC Member States Vote to Remove Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan in Historic First
Eighty-two of the court's 125 member states voted to dismiss Karim Khan over findings of serious misconduct. He denies wrongdoing and will challenge the…