News: French soldiers working as peacekeepers for the UN in the Central African Republic have been accused of raping and abusing desperately poor young children in exchange for food. According to an alleged internal report seen by The Guardian entitled "Sexual Abuse on Children by International Armed Forces", children told human rights investigators they were sexually exploited, including rape and sodomy, in the capital Bangui in early 2014. One nine-year-old…

News: Media outlets have reported that more than 1000 people are feared to have died in migrant shipwrecks over the weekend. Refugees seeking sanctuary in Europe are trying to escape "conflict, repression, and poverty" from Africa, Asia, and the Middle East, namely Eritrea, Niger, Syria, Iraq and Somalia, according to the Associated Press. Reuters notes that critics describe Europe's strategy as "letting people drown to deter others in desperate need.…

News: While Uzbekistan is a land with a long Islamic history which has produced great figures who have made amazing contributions to our Deen, the current leader, Islam Karimov's current legacy is one of ongoing and unspeakable oppression. His regime continues to jail those calling for Islam from various groups. Scholars who oppose the regime are jailed or assassinated, and thousands of dawah carriers have been tortured and martyred in…

News: On 25th April 2015, it was reported that the US presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton cited the example of Indian women entrepreneurs joining forces to secure micro-finance loans as she made a clarion call to achieving equal pay, ending sexual violence and providing equal opportunities to women across the world. She told a gathering at the sixth annual "Women in the World" Summit at New York that men and women…