Who is Hind Al-Owais? UAE human rights diplomat named in 469 Jeffrey Epstein emails | World News

[ad_1] UAE rights official Hind Al-Owais named in hundreds of emails with Jeffrey Epstein / image: @x.com Newly released records from the US Department of Justice have placed Emirati diplomat Hind Al-Owais in the spotlight after her name appeared in 469 emails linked to Jeffrey Epstein. The emails, dating back to 2011 and 2012, were […]

Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi sentenced to fresh jail term in Iran

[ad_1] File photo: Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammad (Picture credit: AP) Iran has sentenced Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi to more than seven additional years in prison, according to her supporters and lawyer. The development comes as Mohammadi has reportedly been on a hunger strike since early February.Her lawyer, Mostafa Nili, confirmed the […]

‘Let’s bomb more countries!’: Row over Nobel winner Machado saying Cuba and Nicaragua will be ‘freed’ like Venezuela

[ad_1] Venezuela’s Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Corina Machado wants not only her own country to be freed from dictatorship but also Cuba and Nicaragua, with social media comments saying the Latin-American leader is pushing warmongering. Her own country was raided by the US military recently, in which their leader, Nicolas Maduro, and his wife […]

Who is Alaa Abd El-Fattah and why is Keir Starmer under fire | World News

[ad_1] British-Egyptian activist Alaa Abd El-Fattah has arrived in the UK after Egyptian authorities lifted a long-standing travel ban, allowing him to leave the country following years of imprisonment and restrictions on his movement. Abd El-Fattah has spent extended periods in detention since 2013, alongside earlier arrests linked to his political activism. He was pardoned […]

Nobel No-Show: What forced Machado to let her daughter accept the peace prize?

[ad_1] Nobel Peace Prize winner María Corina Machado has been hiding for months, and even she didn’t go to collect her award, but her daughter went on stage. Ana Corina Sosa, the daughter of Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado, accepted Machado’s Nobel Peace Prize on her mother’s behalf at a ceremony in Oslo City […]

Murder, kidnap, censorship: The ‘new normal’ of Tanzania politics

[ad_1] Tanzania’s President Samia Suluhu Hassan (Image credits: AP) NAIROBI: A priest attacked after a meeting about democracy with faith leaders, an opposition official’s corpse found doused in acid, an ex-ambassador missing from his blood-stained home, this is the “new normal” in Tanzania, say critics.The grim assessment comes as the country readies to hold presidential […]

George Soros receives prize for work on Roma, Sinti rights

[ad_1] Alex Soros accepts the European Civil Rights Prize of the Sinti and Roma from Romani Rose (Image credits: AP) Noted human rights advocate and philanthropist George Soros has received the European Civil Rights Prize of the Sinti and Roma for his many years of work supporting Roma communities across Europe.The prize, awarded at a […]

Explained: What was Saudi Arabia’s Kafala system and why its abolition is a historic moment for migrant workers | World News

[ad_1] Saudi Arabia’s labour reforms mark a major shift, easing worker mobility and reducing Kafala dependency to promote fair employment rights / Illustration generated by AI For over half a century, a single word defined the lives of millions of foreign workers in the Gulf: kafala, Arabic for “sponsorship.” It decided whether they could change […]

Rights groups accuse Bangladesh’s interim government of gagging dissent voices

[ad_1] DHAKA: International and domestic rights groups on Thursday accused Muhammad Yunus-led Bangladesh’s interim government of gagging dissent voices, particularly launching a crackdown on supporters of deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina.“Bangladesh’s interim government led by Muhammad Yunus, a Nobel peace laureate, is increasingly using the recently amended counterterrorism law to arrest alleged supporters of the […]

Landmark ICJ verdict on climate change: Inaction by nations is illegal; reparations possible

[ad_1] Activists protest outside top UN court ahead of climate change advisory ruling. (AP photo) United Nations’s top court has said that inaction on climate change could be unlawful. The international court of justice (ICJ) said on Wednesday that countries may be breaching international law if they fail to take meaningful steps to protect the […]