Rachel O'Brien

As of 8 August 2024, the National Register of Missing and Disappeared Persons reported up to 116,386 disappeared and missing persons. With the numbers ever rising, this is not just a historical problem.

It has been five years since India revoked Jammu and Kashmir's semi-autonomous status, a decision that plunged the region into a stringent lockdown marked by extensive control over freedom of the press, expression, and politics.

The fruits of the student liberation movement are only beginning to be felt. A decade of brute oppression is slowly coming undone.

On 26 July the United Nations Committee against Torture published its latest review of the situation in Türkiye.

Bangladesh is witnessing a deadly crackdown against student protesters. The heavy-handed response from the authorities has resulted in several hundred deaths of students, journalists and bystanders, as well as thousands being injured.