Residents of western Baghdad’s al-Salam district say militant groups in the area are hunting down women and killing them, and have petitioned the Iraqi parliament for urgent action. “Over the past six months 15 women were killed in al-Salam neighborhood… Read moreSexual cleansing in Iraq
From the General Union of Port Workers in Iraq, via US Labor Against the War, April 29: May Day Message from the Port Workers in Iraq to West Coast dock workers in the US In solidarity with the ILWU, the… Read moreIraqi port workers to strike in support of ILWU
On April 22, a riot broke out at the Mira Loma immigration detention center in Lancaster, Calif., which holds nearly 1,000 immigrants. The riot allegedly involved the South Siders and Paisa gangs, according to a detainee who spoke with the… Read moreICE detainees transferred after riot
On April 11, Palestinian professor Sami Al-Arian was transferred into ICE custody after completing a sentence on civil contempt citations for refusing to testify before a federal grand jury. On April 15, ICE agents transported Al-Arian from the Northern Neck… Read morePalestinian professor transfered to ICE custody
A new memorandum of understanding was signed allowing Australia to continue to indefinitely detain asylum seekers at a facility on the Pacific island of Nauru. Since 2012, asylum seekers arriving by boat have been barred from settlement in Australia and have been sent to offshore detention centers instead. The deal extending use of the Nauru facility comes just as the governments of Australia and Papua New Guinea (PNG) finally reached an agreement to close the contentious Manus Island Regional Processing Center, which was found to be illegal by the PNG Supreme Court in 2016. Most of those held there are now to be transfered to Nauru. Both the Manus Island and Nauru facilities have been criticized by rights groups as "Australia's Guantánamo." (Photo of Nauru facility via Wikipedia)
Peru's top public prosecutor Luis Landa Burgos ordered that new charges be brought against ex-dictator Alberto Fujimori over the forcible sterilization of thousands of indigenous and peasant women during his time in power in the 1990s. Three of his former ministers are also to face charges, as well as his ex-health director. Landa said he has an archive of testimony from survivors including Inés Condori, an indigenous woman from Cuzco region who was the first to speak out about the forced sterilization she underwent in 1995. Fujimori, already convicted on other rights abuses and corruption charges, was released from prison following a presidential pardon in December. Landa is now evaluating the legality of the pardon in light of new criminal charges that have been brought. (Photo of sterilization survivors in community meeting from La República via CNDH)
West Bank farmer Jamil Khader, 87, became very ill when he discovered that nearly all of the 1,400 olive trees his extended family planted in February had suddenly gone missing. Photo: Shabtai Gold/IRIN Back to story.
In 1924, after a dispute between the Dalai Lama and the Tibetan government, the Ninth Panchen Lama exited the region for China. After his death in 1937, his officials engaged a search for his successor. Traditionally, the new candidate needed… Read moreAddendum: The 1924-1937 Panchen Lama dispute
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