“I've seen video content of a child that's the same age as mine being raped by an American man that was a sex tourist in Cambodia”, remarked former model and American actor, Ashton Kutcher, before the United States Senate Foreign Relations Committee on ending modern slavery and human trafficking in February this year. He paused.
North Korea said the US will “pay dearly” after its UN (United Nations) Ambassador Nikki Haley said the isolated nation was “begging for war,” again ratcheting up tensions as world leaders consider a fresh round of sanctions.Describing Haley’s comments to the UN this week as a “hysteric fit,” a commentary by the state-run KCNA (Korean Central News Agency) on Friday warned the US of unspecified retribution.
More than 1,000 people may already have been killed in Myanmar's Rakhine state, mostly members of the Muslim Rohingya minority, a senior UN (United Nations) representative told AFP (Agence France-Presse) on Friday – around twice the government's figure."Perhaps about a thousand or more are already dead," said Yanghee Lee, the UN special rapporteur on human rights in Myanmar.
Global humanitarian organisations have appealed to the international community to mount pressure on Myanmar’s government over ongoing violence against the Rohingya, an ethnic minority group in Myanmar. Many international organisations have raised concerns over the matter as the Muslim minority group has been facing discrimination from the government and its military for decades.
Five Rohingya shot dead in Myanmar have been buried in Bangladesh at a mass funeral attended by hundreds of people after their relatives carried their bodies across the border, police said Thursday.The Rohingya villagers who carried the victims' bodies said they had been killed by the Myanmar military on Wednesday, Bangladesh border guard, commander Manzurul Hasan Khan, told AFP.
Nearly 168,000 Rohingyas have fled Myanmar in the last five years as a result of violence and desperation, according to a new report on forced displacement in South-East Asia published by the UNHCR (UN Refugee Agency). Many Rohingyas seek help by fleeing into neighbouring countries like Bangladesh and Malaysia.
On August 29, 2017 North Korea fired an unidentified ballistic missile over Hokkaido - Japan's northernmost island. The missile landed about 1,200 kilometres (745 miles) off Hokkaido, into the Pacific Ocean. Though there were no reports of damage, countries from all over the globe have once again expressed concerns over North Korea’s nuclear capabilities.
France on Wednesday rejected claims by Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte that people were guilty until proven innocent in its legal system, as it emphasised the importance of human rights and rule of law.The statement released by the French embassy followed Duterte's assessment of the judicial system in France on Monday as he defended his controversial war on drugs that has claimed thousands of lives."We have to point out that, as in the Philippines, the presumption of innocence
