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On 22 July, the governor of Istanbul announced that all unregistered Syrians must leave the city by 20 August. At least 2,630 refugees have been removed since, many of whom say they have been sent back into the warzone in contravention of international law. The Turkish government says that the new ruling in Istanbul is necessary to relieve pressure on the city, the biggest refugee hosting province in Turkey by … Read more →

It is no longer just about the hijab but a wider issue of freedom of freedom of expression. Since the 1979 revolution in Iran, women have been forced to wear the hijab in public. Back then, more than 100,000 women and men took to the streets to protest against the law and opposition to it has never gone away. On 31 July, three women were sentenced to 55 years in … Read more →

According to the UN, over 4 million Venezuelans have now fled their nation in an unprecedented exodus putting stress on nations around Latin America. Many have ended up in the impoverished Catatumbo region in Colombia’s northeast where armed groups commit serious human rights violations. According to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, there are at least 25,000 Venezuelans in the region, which is also home to … Read more →

Rukban, an informal settlement for Syria’s displaced people in a US-protected zone in southern Syria, has been left without humanitarian aid for the past five months after the Syrian government blocked humanitarian access to the encampment through its territories. A total of 7,735 tents scattered along a stretch of desert on the Syrian-Jordanian border are home to about 11,000 people – only a quarter of the 40,000 inhabitants the camp … Read more →

On 30 July, the UN warned that the Syrian province of Idlib is at risk of becoming “the worst humanitarian disaster the world has seen so far this century,” as Russian-backed Syrian government forces continue a campaign against one of the last rebel hold outs. At least 450 civilians have been killed since late April, including more than 100 just in the past two weeks. More than 440,000 have been … Read more →

The process of updating the National Register of Citizens (NRC), to determine who is a citizen and who is not, has been ongoing in Assam since 2015, and will culminate on 31 July when the final list will be published. Hundreds of thousands – perhaps millions – are likely to be excluded from the list, meaning they will have to prove their citizenship or risk detention and citizenship deprivation. A … Read more →