Students’ report slams SOAS over links with British overseas military expeditions
United Kingdom

Students’ report slams SOAS over links with British overseas military expeditions

Decolonising Our Minds, a student group at SOAS, released a report condemning the institution for its collaboration with the Ministry of Defense

Peoples Dispatch
July 29, 2019
Organizations denounce massacre of six Venezuelan social leaders
Venezuela

Organizations denounce massacre of six Venezuelan social leaders

The six comrades were part of Corriente Revolucionaria Bolívar y Zamora and the Popular Defense Brigade Hugo Chávez

Peoples Dispatch
July 29, 2019
stop-killing-farmers
Philippines

Church leaders order daily demonstration against unabated violence in Negros

As violence spirals in Philippines’ Negros, on civilians and activists by what are suspected to be pro-government forces, the island witnesses its 84th civilian killing since Duterte came to power.

Peoples Dispatch
July 29, 2019
Mob Lynching in India
India

Minors lynched in India on accusation of cattle-theft

There has been a drastic rise in the number of attacks by cow vigilante groups ever since the Narendra Modi-led far-right Hindu nationalist government came into power in 2014.

Peoples Dispatch
July 29, 2019
Argentine agricultural producers protest to denounce the crisis facing the sector
Argentina

Argentine agricultural producers protest to denounce the crisis facing the sector

The creative protest denounced how the right-wing government’s neoliberal economic policies have violated the most fundamental right to food for many sectors of society

Peoples Dispatch
July 27, 2019
The head of the UN refugee agency called it 'the worst Mediterranean tragedy of this year', (Representational image
Libya

Refugee boats from Libya capsize in the Mediterranean, nearly 150 feared dead

The tragedy, the biggest of its kind this year, has intensified the UN refugee agency’s calls to open safe pathways for refugees who otherwise take perilous journeys to escape poverty and war.

Peoples Dispatch
July 26, 2019
Trump vetoes bills banning sales of weapons to Saudi Arabia and the UAE
United States

Trump vetoes bills banning sales of weapons to Saudi Arabia and the UAE

The US Congress had banned the sales to Saudi Arabia and the UAE due to the human rights violations being committed in the ongoing war in Yemen

Peoples Dispatch
July 26, 2019
Britain greeted its new prime minister with roadblocks and ‘Fck Boris’ banners
United Kingdom

Britain greeted its new prime minister with roadblocks and ‘Fck Boris’ banners

Activists flooded Downing Street as a demonstration against the ascent of Boris Johnson, known for his right-wing rhetoric, racism, anti-environmentalism and hard-line stance on Brexit

Peoples Dispatch
July 25, 2019