Best of 2021: Human traffickers prey on Rohingya refugees
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In Bangladesh’s refugee camps, people are lured by dreams of a better life and of meeting family to take a ruinously expensive and...


US sanctions China’s biotech sector over Uighur rights abuses
The Biden administration hits Chinese companies with export restrictions, citing national security and human rights. The Biden...


Blinken says U.S. to look at more Myanmar measures, plans ASEAN summit
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Malaysian Foreign Affairs Minister Saifuddin Abdullah hold a joint press conference after...


‘Under attack’: Report says repression of rights persists in Asia
CIVICUS report says at least 89 percent of the world’s population now live in ‘closed, repressed or obstructed’ countries. From Myanmar...


On Syria’s Ruins, a Drug Empire Flourishes
Powerful associates of Syria’s president, Bashar al-Assad, are making and selling captagon, an illegal amphetamine, creating a new...
Iraq in the News
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