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Myanmar authorities charged detained Development Media Group journalist Htet Aung with terrorism but did not inform his family and lawyers until May, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) said Thursday as it urged authorities to withdraw all charges and release Htet Aung. According to the editor-in-chief of Development Media Group, Htet Aung is held in [...]

The US House of Representatives passed a bill on Thursday that would restrict President Joe Biden’s ability to withhold weapons transfers to Israel, aiming to force the president to deliver certain weapons after he previously placed shipments on hold. The bill, known as the Israel Security Assistance Support Act, was crafted “o provide for the [...]

Harvard University’s leadership has failed to implement a spate of recommendations related to curbing antisemitism on campus, according to a report released Thursday by the US House Committee on Education and the Workforce. According to the report, Harvard’s Antisemitism Advisory Group (AAG) presented university leaders with recommendations in December 2023. These recommendations included enforcing zero [...]

Amnesty International called on Israel to respect the human rights of Palestinian refugees in a press release issued on Wednesday. The statement highlighted the mass forced displacement and destruction of civilian properties and infrastructure due to both the war in Gaza and Israel’s policies toward Palestinians. Amnesty International stated that Palestinians are facing forced displacement [...]

Pitasanna Shanmugathas is a law student at Vermont Law & Graduate School and a graduate of the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs. On Saturday May 11 Pitasanna participated in Day 10 of the student-led encampment calling for the University of Toronto to divest from funding Israeli institutions allegedly involved in sustaining the [...]

Fires used as a weapon devastated 72 villages and towns in western Sudan in April, the highest number seen in any month since the conflict began over a year ago, according to a report from a Center for Information Resilience published on Monday. As Sudan Witness, a project run by the UK-based nonprofit Center for [...]

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk reminded world leaders on Sunday that a general assault by Israel in the Gazan city of Rafah “cannot be reconciled with the binding demands of international humanitarian law, or the binding provisional measures ordered by the International Court of Justice (ICJ).” Türk’s statement came just a day [...]

Egypt’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Sunday announced the country intends to file a declaration of intervention in South Africa’s case against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ). Egypt’s announcement follows several other countries’ requests to intervene in the case. In their statement, the ministry said the intervention comes in light of Israel’s [...]

At least 97 journalists and media works have been killed in the ongoing Israel-Hamas war, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) said in a preliminary count of media workers released Saturday. This conflict has proven to be the deadliest for media workers since CPJ began systematically documenting such tragedies in 1992. According to CPJ, working [...]

The UN General Assembly passed a draft resolution in an emergency special session on Friday affirming Palestine’s eligibility for full UN membership and recommending the Security Council to consider it favorably. The resolution, which garnered substantial support, also urged the Security Council to revisit its previous decisions regarding Palestine’s membership status. The General Assembly vote [...]