Tagged: International Affairs
Egyptian authorities deported dozens of activists Friday who were traveling to the Gaza strip to mark International Women’s day. About 100 women planned to travel through Egypt’s northern Sinai to the Rafah crossing and...
The United Nations’ commission investigating alleged war crimes in Syria released its final report today. The conflict began in March of 2011. Since then, an unknown number of Syrians have died — but the...
Russian troops are taking control of Crimea, an ethnically Russian-dominated peninsula in southern Ukraine, following the surprise ouster of the sitting president after months of demonstrations in the central square. Many Russian accuse the...
An official spokesperson for the Ugandan government today dismissed international aid-cuts announced by at least three European nations in response to a harsh anti-gay law enacted earlier this week. Ofwono Opondo, Executive Director of...
British lawmakers will consider a motion to block a prisoner transfer agreement between the UK and Nigeria that was signed last month. Just days after the agreement was inked, Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan signed...
Eritreans fleeing human rights abuses in their homeland are routinely kidnapped by human traffickers as they cross into eastern Sudan, bound for Israel. In a new report out Tuesday, Human Rights Watch says the...
A major climate change report released today by UN scientists has found that human influence is the dominant cause of climate change and calls for “substantial and sustained reductions” in greenhouse gas emissions in...