News: On the 7th of November, 2014, the Malaysian Court of Appeal reversed the Islamic law banning cross-dressing for Muslim transgenders. One of the judges who presided over the appeal case, judge Hishamuddin Yunus was quoted by AFP as saying that: "It (banning cross-dressing) has the effect of denying the appellants and other sufferers of GID (gender identify disorder) to move freely in public places... This is degrading, oppressive and…

News On the 7th November, the Bangkok-based advocacy group Fortify Rights published a briefing that stated that Myanmar authorities were complicit in the trafficking and smuggling of Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar's Rakhine state. They described state security forces extracting payments from Rohingya fleeing the persecution of their regime, or from traffickers operating boats offshore in exchange for passage out to sea. There are even reports of Myanmar naval boats escorting…

News: In a report released by the Statistics and Insolvency Department, nearly 45,000 individuals aged less than 35 years in the country declared bankruptcy three years ago. Of these, an average of 41 people every day declared bankruptcy due to failure to pay credit card debt, medical fees, hire purchase and debt with a loan shark. The Studies, Research and Resource Centre (SRRC) showed that out of the 47 percent…

News: BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Islamic State has executed 85 more members of the Albu Nimr tribe in Iraq, a tribal leader and security official said on Saturday, part of a mass killing campaign launched last week to break local resistance to the group's territorial advances. Tribal chief Sheikh Naeem al-Ga'oud told Reuters Islamic State had killed 50 members of Albu Nimr who were fleeing the group in Anbar Province on…