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As researched and reported by Perfecto Caparas By virtue of the Rome Statute of the ICC, the global fight against impunity is now being waged by hundreds of thousands of victims of the most egregious crimes known to humankind. They…

This letter from Guledagudda’s Kanaves weavers was written on the occasion of handloom day and posted on the Khanaweaves social media: “When the second wave of #COVID19 hit in May and June this year, we were suddenly in extreme distress.…

Malika Ahmadi, two, died in a U.S. drone strike on Kabul today, her family says. Has the war of 20 years cost us the ability to care? The war on Afghanistan and the war on Iraq that it was a means…

Nancy Lindisfarne and Jonathan Neale write: A lot of nonsense about Afghanistan is being written in Britain and the United States. Most of this nonsense hides a number of important truths. First, the Taliban have defeated the United States. Second, the Taliban have…

In the wake of a human rights lawyer’s ambush-slay by Perfecto Caparas Gunshots from a treacherous assassin felled long-time human rights lawyer Rex Jesus Mario A. Fernandez and seriously wounded his driver in Cebu City on 26 August 2021. The…

POEM   For all the misfits in the world Who couldn’t settle into this old mold For all the searchers of their own space Who want to find their own grace         Love the reality you build.…

Essay/Endangered Animals       We must safeguard the web of life and care about the other living species that we share this planet with. Pygmy tarsiers eat and host bugs that we’ve seen at home — insects, spiders, lizards,…

POEM     by Erlie Lopez I catch the sky pale pink and blue on a late afternoon I walk around the block. Such fitting canopy on a nearly empty street where hopes hang on frozen air. The scrawny man…

Dhaka/Guwahati: The Asia Pacific Forum of Environmental Journalists (APFEJ) welcomes the decision of the Assam government’s forest department in far eastern India to dispose of the rhino horns to be discriminating in its message that rhino horns do not carry…

Days after the Taliban drove into Kabul on August 15, its representatives started making inquiries about the “location of assets” of the central bank of the nation, Da Afghanistan Bank (DAB), which are known to total about $9 billion. Meanwhile,…