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Immigrant Advocates Score Major Legal Wins

“This week’s decisions are a powerful reminder that our Constitution protects immigrants from harassment and scapegoating by state and local governments” - ACLU’s Omar Jadwat

(LAS CRUCES, NM) - While a comprehensive immigration reform waned in the U.S. Congress, significant developments on the immigration front occurred in the courts in July.

In three back-to-back decisions, federal courts struck down state or local laws that attempted to regulate housing, employment and other matters based on a person’s immigration status.

Las Vegas Premiere Set to Expose BLM Mismanagement

Secretaries of Interior and Energy invited to showing of “Who Are My People?”

(LAS VEGAS) - It is no coincidence that the Las Vegas premiere of “Who Are My People?” is on August 13. National Clean Energy Summit 6.0 takes place the same day.

The Secretary of the Interior (Sally Jewell), Secretary of Energy (Dr. Ernest Moniz), Chairman Jon Wellinghoff of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid will be there...

Minister, Toronto MPs Join Canadian Tamils in Exhibition on 1983 Black July in Sri Lanka

The exhibition chronologically highlights what organizers calls `anti-Tamil pogroms’ since 1948.

(TORONTO News East-West) - Senior Canadian politicians, including MPs, joined Tamils in remembering the victims of the July 1983 riots in Sri Lanka – also referred to as Black July – at an exhibition at the Scarborough Civic Centre here on Thursday.

Tracy MacCharles, Ontario minister for consumer services, Craig Scott, MP for Toronto-Danforth, and John McKay, MP for Scarborough-Guildwood, joined Canadian Tamil Congress leaders and others from the Canadian Tamil community in watching the exhibition called Remembering Silent Voices.

An Afghan Church Grows in Delhi

The war-torn country has signed and ratified the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, but adheres to a conservative interpretation of Islamic law.

(DELHI ) - In a South Delhi neighborhood, the sound of a man reciting Dari, a Farsi dialect spoken in Afghanistan, over a loudspeaker attached to a modest two-story building rose over the din of vegetable hawkers.

The building was a church run by Afghan refugees who had converted to Christianity. The man was a young Afghan priest reading the Bible before a Sunday service in its basement.

Netanyahu and Abbas on Negotiations

This is the same Netanyahu who also explained (when he thought no cameras were around) how he prevented implementation of the very minor withdrawal required under Oslo.

(BETHLEHEM) - From a letter in Hebrew by the Israeli Prime minister Netanyahu to the Israeli Jewish public explaining things:

“From time to time, prime ministers are called on to make decisions that go against public opinion – when the matter is important for the country..."

History 101: Fiction and Facts on Oromos of Ethiopia

(a guide for foreign journalists on Oromos and Ethiopian history)

(ADAMA, Ethiopia) - Recently, the Qatar-based media al Jazeera has published several articles concerning the Oromo people of Ethiopia.

It is the first international media outlet to extensively report on our people and it should be praised for bringing our cause to the world stage.

Aceh Fishermen Rescue 68 Rohingya Asylum Seekers From Indian Ocean

The number of asylum seekers fleeing Myanmar has increased eight-fold in Indonesia’s Aceh province since 2009 as hard-line Buddhists launched a violent campaign targeting Myanmar’s Muslim minority.

(BANDA ACEH) - Fishermen rescued a more than 60 Rohingya asylum seekers stranded in a boat off the coast of Aceh Jaya on Sunday — the third disabled Rohingya boat found floating in the Indian Ocean this year.

The 68 Rohingya — including a pregnant woman and two babies — told Aceh officials they boarded the boat after being threatened with deportation in Malaysia.

Kerry Stumbles Into a Peace `Bully` Role

The U.S. Secretary of State cannot meet with a delegation from the 22-member Arab League in Petra, Jordan. as Kerry did on July 17, and expect his strategy to retain confidential.

(CHICAGO) - Nicola Nasser, a blogger from Bir Zeit, Palestine, has delivered a stinging rebuke to John Kerry on the eve of the meetings with the U.S., Israeli and Palestinian negotiators.

Nasser’s blog, allarabi. exposed a “new tactic” in Kerry’s preparation for the peace conference, scheduled to begin Monday.

Moldova: Make Full Use of the EU Guidelines for Supporting LGBTI People`s Human Rights

Moldova should take immediate action to ensure that legislative and other measures are adopted to combat discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation or gender identity.

(YORK, UK) - Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) persons in Moldova may face legal challenges not experienced by non-LGBT residents.

Since the fall of the Soviet Union, they're increasingly under the influence of the Orthodox Christian church; marred by human rights violations against the freedom of association for homosexuals to have Gay Pride demonstrations.

Afghan Peace Talks to Resume in the Near Future: Chaudhry

“We believe that close engagement between Pakistan and the Afghan government could help achieve the objectives of peace and stability in Afghanistan”

(KABUL) - The Foreign Office officials of Pakistan on Thursday announced that Islamabad is optimistic that the stalled Afghan peace process will be revived soon as differences between key stakeholders narrow down over the Afghan Taliban’s office in Doha.

Aizaz Ahmed Chaudhry, spokesman for the Pakistan Office said that the only achieve and stability in the region is through reconciliation between Kabul and Taliban group.