At the end of her visit to Sudan, the Special Rapporteur of the United Nations on Violence against Women, Rashida Manjoo, gave a press statement, and in it she expressed her appreciation to the Government of Sudan for inviting her for this visit. And she said that despite the laws, policies and programs, violence against women is still a worrying issue, a large number of women and girls living in…

On Sunday 24/5/2015, Executive Director of the United Nations Children's Fund UNICEF, Anthony Lake, announced that 135 children were killed and 260 others were injured as a result of the escalation of the conflict in Yemen.

The government has recently announced measures designed to bolster already overreaching anti-terror laws. The appointment of a National Counter Terrorism Coordinator and a ministerial position, targeting of school children and legislation that potentially removes citizenship are some of the introduced and proposed changes.

On Tuesday 12th May, the Malaysian and Indonesian governments announced that they would be refusing entry to boatloads of desperate and hungry Rohingya and Bangladeshi men, women and children fleeing persecution in Myanmar or dire poverty in their lands. Tan Kok Kwee, First Admiral of Malaysia’s Maritime Enforcement Agency said, “We won’t let any foreign boats come in” and that the navy would provide “provisions and send them away.”