This is a story of a people fleeing the land where they were born, of a people deprived of citizenship in their homeland. It is the story of the Rohingya of western Myanmar, whose very existence as a people is denied ...

According to Prof. Schabas, one of the foremost experts on international criminal law: “We’re moving into a zone where the word can be used (in the case of the Rohingya). When you see measures preventin ...

Most doctors live and work in the cities in Bangladesh. A long distance away for ailing villagers. After saving his 6 dollars per day earnings as a rickshaw driver for over 30 years, one villager has built a hospital ...

A series of unsolved murders on the private property of one of the world's biggest gold and copper mines has left nine people dead since September. ...

Video from the three month long strike at Freeport Mine in West Papua, police repression and actions in solidarity with the miners. ...

Human rights organisations want US President Barack Obama to address abuses in Papua during his visit to Indonesia. ...

Indonesian forces have raided a meeting of the Papuan independence movement, killing at least two of its members and arresting hundreds more. Rights group Amnesty International is asking the government to release the ...

UN Security council has demanded the immediate withdrawal of Sudanese troops,from the disputed Abyei region, on the border with South Sudan. ...

Iraq is full of street kids; children with one or both parents killed, or some who have merely been abandoned. ...

Shia comprise about 70 per cent of Bahrain’s population, but are excluded from top government and security posts. More than 30 people have died in the unrest. ...

Authorities in Yemen have ordered Al-Jazeera's offices shut and its journalists stripped of accreditation, escalating a week-long series of reprisals against the station that has included beatings, expulsions, raids, ...

Yemeni security forces fired live bullets and tear gas on two pro-democracy demonstrations Saturday, killing three people — including a 15-year-old student — as the government clamps down on a growing p ...

The U.S. is losing an information war to alternative media outlets... ...