Pakistan’s missing-persons controversy centres on a fundamental question: how can authorities distinguish enforced disappearances from other cases of unexplained absence while ensuring that credible allegations of state involvement are independently investigated? Although
Countries across Asia and the Pacific have made remarkable strides over the past three decades in tackling poverty through a combination of economic growth, government-led programmes and community-based initiatives. At the same time, the nature of poverty and vulnerability is
United Nations human rights experts have called on Indian authorities to end the alleged excessive use of force against peaceful, youth-led protests, investigate reported
Mitoe Matsumoto was three years and four months old when an atomic bomb exploded over Nagasaki at 11.02am on 9 August 1945. Eighty-one years
President Donald Trump and Iran’s leaders are preparing for the possibility of renewed military confrontation after the November 3 US midterm elections, while continuing to pursue a diplomatic resolution to the conflict,
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Sri Lanka’s Frontline Socialist Party (FSP) has accused the government of seeking to suppress popular political activity through the proposed Protection of the State from Terrorism Act (PSTA), claiming that some provisions
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From Gaza’s shattered sanitation systems and devastated economy to forced displacement in the occupied West Bank, this account examines the enduring human cost of Israel’s military campaign and occupation. It also exposes
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At 6.29am on October 7, 2026, three years after Hamas launched its surprise attack from Gaza, families of those killed at the Nova music festival gathered at the site where their relatives
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by Our Correspondent in Colombo President Anura Kumara Dissanayake reacted angrily after learning that Bodu Bala Sena General Secretary Galagodaaththe Gnanasara Thera had been stripped of his Buddhist robes and brought before
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Rachel Goldberg-Polin does not describe grief as a process that steadily diminishes with time. Since the death of her son Hersh, who was abducted by Hamas and killed after 328 days in
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Irina Scherbakova, the Russian historian and Nobel Peace Prize laureate who spent decades documenting the crimes of Stalinism, says she has become “incredibly disappointed” with international institutions, including the United Nations and
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US military personnel stationed on Japan’s Okinawa island have been placed under a month-long curfew and banned from drinking alcohol while undergoing discipline training after a US Marine was accused of murdering
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Israelis will mark three years since the Hamas-led October 7, 2023 attack on Wednesday, commemorating the deadliest day in the country’s history while Gaza remains devastated and a year-old ceasefire has failed
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by Our Correspondent in Colombo The Kotte Sri Kalyani Samagri Dharma Maha Sangha Sabha has urged Sri Lanka’s Commissioner-General of Prisons not to remove the robe of Ven. Galagoda Aththe Gnanasara Thera
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At least 280,000 people are missing in the war between Russia and Ukraine, according to the list maintained by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). The figure includes both Ukrainians
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Australia’s conservative opposition coalition has proposed what Opposition Leader Angus Taylor called the country’s “biggest cut to immigration in the history of this country”, seeking to reduce temporary migration, restrict international student
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The Baloch National Movement’s Geneva campaign has taken the demand for an independent Balochistan to an international audience, but its political significance should not be confused with institutional recognition or a mandate
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Several hospitals in Siberia have been placed under quarantine following the death of a 28-year-old laboratory worker who was reportedly exposed to the bacterium that causes plague, prompting international monitoring of an
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The arrest of Galagoda Aththe Gnanasara Thera raises a difficult question about the reach of judicial power: can a procedural defect in a presidential pardon, granted in 2019 after intervention by Sri
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