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Yemen Peace Talks have begun in Stockholm, Sweden on 6 December, at a time when the humanitarian crisis reaches a peak as a result of the four-year-long conflict. An estimated 10,000 people are said to have died in the conflict, however a University of Sussex research project says that this figure is a vast underestimation, and that as many as 50,000 have died due to the conflict. In addition, more … Read more →

A group of almost 300 conservationists from 66 countries are appealing to Iran to free the group of environmentalists charged with spying earlier this year including Niloufar Bayani a Canadian permanent resident. The eight environmentalists have been charged with national security crimes including spying, which if they are convicted is a crime punishable by death in Iran. Originally the group of conservationists were 9, however Canadian citizen, Kavous Sayed-Emami tragically … Read more →

The remaining 1,500 refugees still stuck in the infamous Calais ‘Jungle’ camp are being violently displaced by French police. A ‘Help Refugees’ census of 2016 counted 7,307 migrants at the camp and this figure was reported to have surged to 10,000 after the Brexit referendum. The destruction of camps has forced many of the refugees, largely Afghan, Eritrean or Sudanese, and a small population of Iranians, mostly men aged between … Read more →

After being stranded in Malaysia for almost 9 months, 37-year-old Syrian man, Hassan Al Kontar, has finally been granted asylum in Canada. Mr Al Kontar was stuck in Kuala Lumpur Airport from 7 March 2018 and on 1 October 2018 was subsequently detained in Malaysian immigration centres for a further 2 months, whilst awaiting a decision on his fate. Al Kontar had been stranded in Kuala Lumpur’s arrivals terminal after … Read more →

France has experienced one of the largest uprisings that it has seen for many years. Protests took place across the country on 24 November and began peacefully but were said to be infiltrated by far-right extremists. 106,000 people took part in protests across France, and of those 130 were arrested, 42 of those arrests taking place in Paris. In central Paris rioters vandalized, paving stones breaking and throwing them at … Read more →

85,000 children under the age of 5 have starved to death in the protracted Yemen conflict. The shocking figures come from a new report by Save the Children, that went on to conclude that an estimated 400,000 more children in Yemen are likely to suffer from malnutrition in 2018. Only last month the UN warned that 14 million people, almost 50% of the population of Yemen, are at risk of … Read more →