Fri 05 February 2021: Activists in Indonesia have lauded the government’s decision to ban public schools from making religious attire mandatory, a move that followed national outrage over non-Muslim students being forced to wear a hijab. Andreas Harsono, a researcher at Human Rights Watch, said schools in more than 20 provinces still make religious attire […]
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Thu 04 February 2021: Teen climate campaigner Greta Thunberg, who has been nominated for this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, has shared a toolkit to help people show support for the farmers’ protest on Delhi’s outskirts. This comes amid a pushback from the centre after Ms Thunberg, 18, international pop icon Rihanna and lawmakers from the […]
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Thu 04 February 2021: United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has pledged to mobilise enough international pressure on Myanmar’s military “to make sure that this coup fails”. Guterres said the coup d’état staged by the military that has swept up key political and civil society leaders since early Monday is “absolutely unacceptable.” “We will do everything […]
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Wed 03 February 2021: Police in Myanmar have charged deposed national leader Aung San Suu Kyi with having several illegally imported walkie-talkies in her home, members of her party said. Suu Kyi was detained on Monday, along with other senior politicians, when the military staged a coup the day the newly elected parliament was supposed […]
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Wed 03 February 2021: A union of 180 rights groups on Wednesday called for a boycott of Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics, over China’s human rights abuses of it’s ethnic minorities. The coalition is composed of groups representing Tibetans, Uighurs, Inner Mongolians, residents of Hong Kong and others. The group has issued an open letter to governments […]
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Wed 03 February 2021: After Rihanna and Greta Thunberg, porn star Mia Khalifa tweeted in support of the ongoing farmers’ agitation in India. In her post, Mia shared a picture from the protests and expressed severe shock over the sequence of events in Delhi. She drew attention to the suspension of internet services at […]
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Wed 03 February 2021: Roads cemented with a bed of nails, concrete walls erected between barriers, multi-layer barricading and lines upon lines of police personnel — these are scenes reported from conflict zones, not the outskirts of the national capital of India. The protest, now in its third month, presents the biggest challenge Prime Minister […]
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Wed 03 February 2021: Rihanna, the pop superstar from the United States, has created a flutter in India by wading into months-long farmer protests against new farm laws passed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government. Tens of thousands of young and old farmers have blocked roads leading into New Delhi for more than two months, […]
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Wed 03 February 2021: An explosive investigation reveals how a criminal gang is colluding with the security forces of Bangladesh and has links to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. Undercover reporters with the I-Unit expose how a former street mafia claims to have captured a state. The brother of Bangladesh’s army chief boasts that he can […]
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Tue 02 February 2021: Israeli-made surveillance equipment sold via a convicted criminal is being used by the Bangladeshi government to target political opposition, an Al Jazeera investigation has found. Classified documents obtained by the Investigative Unit of the Gulf news channel show that the Bangladesh army secretly purchased the Israeli equipment in 2018 using a Bangkok-based middleman […]
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