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By Samia Majid, MA History Why is the small West African country known as The Gambia filing a lawsuit against Myanmar at the United Nations top court, the International Court of Justice (ICJ)? The predominantly Muslim country filed for emerency measures against Mynamar’s military, known officially as the Tatmadaw for violating the Genocide Convention of […]
By Ludovica Longo, BA Geography & Politics. ‘No woman wants to have to take action against their own employer,’ but sadly that is what Newswatch presenter Samira Ahmed had to do by filing a lawsuit against the BBC in October 2019. After she became aware of Points of View presenter Jeremy Vine’s salary, she came […]
By Yasmin Elsouda, BA International Relations The world watched in shock as a landscape larger than Belgium caught fire across New South Wales and Victoria in Australia. 80 people were killed not far from there in Indonesia, by flooding and landslides, the worst the country has seen since 2007. East Africa also experienced its worst […]
By Rose-Aymone Sauvage de Brante, BA English and Japanese An estimated crowd of one million people filled the streets of Tehran on 6 January, many displaying pictures of late Major General Soleimani. As Iran mourned the assassination of one of its most senior military figures, the world debated the audacity of his targeted killing and […]
By Samia Majid. MA History Chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Fatou Bensouda, has opened an investigation into Israeli war crimes. These crimes will be investigated in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. According to UN Resolutions, the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and Gaza, have been illegally occupied by Israel since 1967. Bensouda’s announcement […]
By Sasha Patel, History and South Asian Studies On 4 December 2019, India passed a law granting citizenship to refugees from Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Afghanistan. However, the law explicitly excludes Muslims. The Hindu Nationalist ruling party of India has made yet another move to link religion with citizenship. The Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) allows migrants […]