by Michele Zaccheo* - InDepthNews
In a surprise move, legislators made the UN chief an honorary citizen of their southeast Asian island nation during the celebrations in the capital Dili, prompting the UN chief to declare he was proud to...
by Sofia Silei
In 1994, a remarkable story began in Cambodia, a country emerging from the shadows of a brutal past. Nine Cambodian refugees, who had spent years in exile in a Thai border camp during the Khmer Rouge regime,...
by Subir Bhaumik (from Calcutta)*
Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s unceremonious exit from the country was clearly under military pressure, as the army was not willing to enforce her orders for a further crackdown on the student protests. She was...
“Young people and people from every range of life across Bangladesh, across the entire country, came out on the streets to celebrate,” UN Resident Coordinator Gwyn Lewis remarked.
Some of the celebrations following Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s resignation took a...
by Higerta Gjergji
The Grameen Bank, set up by economist Muhammad Yunus in Bangladesh, is a microcredit institution that lends small unsecured loans to people who don’t fit the traditional borrower profile, such as those in rural or underdeveloped areas....
In a report issued on 30 July, Amnesty International states that Greece must change the law to stop people seeking asylum from being locked up in the EU-funded “Closed Controlled Access Centre” on the island of Samos. The organisation...
“We are only halfway through the monsoon season, yet the rainfall, damage and destruction have been devastating,” Sanjay Wijesekera, Unicef Regional Director for South Asia, said in a news release.
In Nepal, 109 people, including children, have died due to...
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 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 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...
