‘On thin ice’: UN chief sounds alarm over rapid Himalayan glacier meltJustin M. LarsonJune 15, 20250 António Guterres issued the warning in a video message to the inaugural Sagarmatha Sambaad, or “Everest Dialogue,” convened by the…
‘Silence is complicity,’ warns activist who fled DPR KoreaJustin M. LarsonJune 15, 20250 When they eventually did, her mother said to her, “If you are going to die anyway, better to be shot…
Afghanistan’s returnees at a crossroads between collapse and recoveryJustin M. LarsonJune 15, 20250 Since September 2023, some three million Afghans have returned – many having been forcibly deported from neighbouring Pakistan and Iran.…
Scam centres are a ‘human rights crisis’, independent experts warnJustin M. LarsonJune 15, 20250 It’s believed that hundreds of thousands of trafficked individuals of various nationalities are forced to carry out fraud in the…
UNHCR underscores plight of Rohingya refugees amid alarming reportsJustin M. LarsonJune 15, 20250 According to reports, one boat carrying 267 people from Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh and Rakhine State in Myanmar, sank on…
Exponential rise in synthetic drug production and trafficking in the Golden TriangleJustin M. LarsonJune 15, 20250 According to the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), the production and trafficking of methamphetamine – an illegal synthetic…
Myanmar on the ‘path to self-destruction’ if violence does not endJustin M. LarsonJune 15, 20250 Since then, “there has been no end to the violence, even though thousands have been killed and thousands more injured,”…
UN chief ‘deeply saddened’ as Air India crash claims lives of over 200 on boardJustin M. LarsonJune 15, 20250 The plane – a Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner – crashed into a medical college about a mile from the city’s main…
