The United States’ top diplomat, Mike Pompeo, will raise China’s mass internment of Muslim ethnic minorities with his Central Asian counterparts during his upcoming trip to the region, a senior State Department official said on Monday.

Hasbiya Allahu wa ni’am alwakeel The people of Iraq have suffered beyond belief since the US invasion in 2003, followed by years of mass arrest, torture and every kind of onslaught and abuse. From the most rural of villages to its cities, the levels of destruction have made the country unrecognisable from the once developed nation which had the highest literary rates in the region and the highest number university…

Akipress covered a news topic relating to CEDAW policies on women and its lack of implementation in Kazakhstan. Human Rights Watch has expressed concern over the failure of the Government to tackle Domestic violence and equality for disabled women. It cited that currently the laws relating to criminalization and punishment of offenders if inadequate and leaves women open to abuse.

The Pakistan government has been accused by some of its own officials of turning a blind eye to the trafficking of hundreds of girls and women from Pakistan as brides to China, due to its financial interests with Beijing, according to the Associated Press (AP). The AP reported on the 3rd December that according to Pakistan investigators, at least 629 poor girls and women from across the country were sold…