Reuters: The U.N. refugee agency UNHCR declined to criticize U.S. President Donald Trump’s cut in refugee resettlement places on Tuesday, saying it was up to the United States to decide on its policy. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Monday the number of refugees allowed into the U.S. would be capped at 30,000 for…
Aniket Shariar, Freelance Contributor : The CRC or UNCRC is a human rights treaty which aims and sets out the civil, political, economic, social, health and cultural rights of children. The Convention defines a child as any human being under the age of eighteen, unless the age of majority is attained earlier under legislation of individual…
Reuters: Italy’s government will stick to commitments agreed with the European Union though it also aims to address the country’s social needs, the economy minister said on Tuesday, after a meeting the previous day on the 2019 budget. “While we respect the commitments with Europe we target a balanced path … that takes into account…
AFP: The International Criminal Court on Monday confirmed a one-year sentence against Congolese ex-vice president Jean-Pierre Bemba for bribing witnesses during an earlier trial, which saw him being excluded from running for president. The decision came despite the fact that judges at the court in The Hague had previously ruled the original sentences were too…
Reuters: Syrian opposition officials praised a deal between Russia and Turkey over Idlib provinceReuters: Syrian opposition officials praisedReuters: Syrian opposition officials praised a deal between Russia and Turkey over Idlib province on Tuesday, saying it had spared the rebel-held region a bloody government offensive and would thwart President Bashar al-Assad’s aim of recovering all Syria….
Hossen Sohel: A Japanese billionaire and online fashion tycoon, Yusaku Maezawa, will be the first man to fly on a monster SpaceX rocket around the Moon as early as 2023, and he plans to bring six to eight artists along, reports AFP. Maezawa, 42, will be the first lunar traveler since the last US Apollo…
Abrar Hussain: Due to a lack of water, sanitation, nutrition and basic healthcare, an estimated 6.3 million children died before their 15th birthdays in 2017, or one every five seconds, according to report by United Nations agencies yesterday. The vast majority of these deaths – 5.4 million – occur in the first five years of…
Sky News: Twelve music students at a college in Seoul binged on pizza and hamburgers five times a day to deliberately gain weight and avoid military service, it has been claimed. The men accused of trying to dodge the mandatory programme had all shared weight-gain strategies with one another via an online chat group, according…
Desk Report: The International Day of Peace, sometimes unofficially known as World Peace Day, is a United Nations-sanctioned holiday observed annually on 21 September. It is dedicated to world peace, and specifically the absence of war and violence, such as might be occasioned by a temporary ceasefire in a combat zone for humanitarian aid access….
Utpal Dutta, Editorial Assistant, The New York Times, Bangladesh National Section : The headway of inhuman torture in Bangladesh over the period of the first six of 2018 is explored and studied by Human Rights Support Society in details. The consequences covering the type and features of inhuman torture by Law Enforcement Agency demonstrates a gloomy…