Human Rights Watch is calling for international pressure on the Hasina government to protect rights from military violence against peaceful protesters and internet shutdowns.
The NGO points to a 2016 UN Human Rights Council resolution that “shutting down the internet...
by Vivek Mishra * - Observer Research Foundation, OtherNews
As the United States (US) presidential election nears, battle lines between the Republicans and Democrats have been drawn not just along political and ideological divides, but they are also geared to...
by Pierpaolo Petrelli *
On July 19, 2024, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) delivered a landmark advisory opinion declaring Israel’s continued presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT), including East Jerusalem, as unlawful. This opinion, requested by the United...
by Tariq Rauf *, InDepthNews (IDN), OtherNews
At one point in the late 1960s, as many as eight different types were deployed at the same time. The US stockpile of nuclear weapons deployed in South Korea reached a peak in...
by David Rosenberg * - Politico, OtherNews
Israel’s ultra-Orthodox Jewish minority, Haredi, has enjoyed a good run over the past quarter of a century. Successive right-wing governments have handed them access to power and money, a booming economy saw the...
by Leonid Savin - Asia-Pacific Research, OtherNews
The anniversary NATO summit in the United States showed that cooperation with Washington‘s satellites will take place not only through AUKUS and QUAD, but also through the headquarters in Brussels. The goal is...
by Higerta Gjergji
The search for “rare earths”, known in the world as Rare Earth Elements (REE), is destined to become one of the pillars of the ecological transition, referring to materials that are increasingly in demand in the industrial...
On Friday, July 13, a United Nations humanitarian convoy entered Gaza City. In this podcast, the story of what they saw
“Some 300,000 people now remain in the north of Gaza, according to latest estimates from the UN agency for...
by Binoy Kampmark - CounterPunch website, OtherNews
The dishonour board is long. Advisors from Australia, account chasing electoral strategists, former Australian cabinet ministers happy to draw earnings in British pounds. British Conservative politicians keen to mimic their cruel advice, notably...
Amnesty International has just released a statement saying that Italy’s migrant and asylum seeker detention centres aren’t up to scratch. In April 2024, the organisation’s researchers checked out two detention centres. They found the conditions to be pretty poor...
