Author: Injusticeto Team

Islamabad —  A global humanitarian agency warned Afghanistan’s neighbors Wednesday against expelling millions of refugees in the coming months, citing the country’s unpreparedness due to decades of conflict, economic devastation, and climate-related challenges. The Norwegian Refugee Council, or NRC, reported that Iran plans to expel up to 2 million Afghan refugees by March, while at least 800,000 have already been deported from Pakistan since October 2023. ”The many vulnerable Afghans already returning from Iran, whom I met at the border this week, feel they live in an enduring limbo,” stated Jan Egeland, the NRC secretary-general. “They left Afghanistan in search…

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesian rescuers retrieved two more bodies after they resumed their search Wednesday for people missing after floods and landslides on Indonesia’s main island of Java, bringing the death toll to 19.Waters from flooded rivers tore through nine villages in Pekalongan regency of Central Java province and landslides tumbled onto mountainside hamlets after the torrential rains Monday. Videos and photos released by National Search and Rescue Agency showed workers digging desperately in villages where roads and green-terraced rice fields were transformed into murky brown mud and villages were covered by thick mud, rocks and uprooted trees.National Disaster…

A passerby walks through a gate to the Harvard University campus, Tuesday, Jan. 2, 2024, in Cambridge, Mass. Steven Senne/AP hide caption toggle caption Steven Senne/AP Harvard University has agreed to strengthen its policies against antisemitism on campus as part of a settlement of two federal lawsuits accusing the school of not doing enough to prevent antisemitic discrimination and harassment. Under the deal, Harvard will adopt the broad International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (“IHRA”) definition of antisemitism, which considers certain cases of anti-Zionist or anti-Israeli criticism as antisemitism. Critics say the definition is overly strict and wrongly conflates the two, and…

The United States is nowhere near its goal of cutting food waste in half by 2030, according to new analysis from the University of California, Davis.  In September 2015, the U.S. set an ambitious target of reducing its food loss and waste by 50 percent. The idea was to reduce the amount of food that ends up in landfills, where it emits greenhouse gases as it decomposes, a major factor contributing to climate change. Researchers at UC Davis looked at state policies across the country and estimated how much food waste each state was likely reducing in 2022. They found…

(Beirut) – Egyptian authorities have renewed their judicial harassment of Hossam Bahgat, a leading human rights defender and the executive director of the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR), one of the few remaining human rights groups in Egypt, Human Rights Watch said today. The Supreme State Security Prosecution, an abusive prosecution branch, summoned Bahgat for interrogations on January 19, 2025, and charged him with “involvement with and financing a terrorist group” and “spreading false news,” then released him on bail, according to the EIPR. The summons followed the release of a report by the group about dire detention conditions in…

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — The South Korean government will reduce subsidies for biomass energy after rising domestic and international criticism of its link to deforestation. Environmental activists generally applauded the reforms but criticized loopholes and slow timelines for phasing out the subsidies.“While not without caveats, (the) decision by the South Korean government demonstrates that large-scale biomass power has no place in a renewable energy future,” Hansae Song, program lead at South Korea-based nongovernmental organization Solutions for Our Climate, said in an email to The Associated Press.Biomass power, predominantly generated by burning wood, is growing globally as countries accelerate their transition…

DENVER (AP) — Five elephants at a Colorado zoo may be “majestic” but, since they’re not human, they do not have the legal right to pursue their release, Colorado’s highest court said Tuesday.The ruling from the Colorado Supreme Court follows a similar court defeat in New York in 2022 for an elephant named Happy at the Bronx Zoo in a case brought by an animal rights group. Rulings in favor of the animals would have allowed lawyers for both Happy and the elephants at the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo in Colorado Springs — Missy, Kimba, Lucky, LouLou and Jambo — to…

BBC”We live in terror,” whispers Layla over the phone so nobody can hear. She fled Sudan with her husband and six children early last year in search of safety and is now in Libya.Like all the Sudanese women who the BBC spoke to about their experiences of being trafficked to Libya, her name has been changed to protect her identity.Warning: This story contains details some may find distressing.In a trembling voice she explains how her home in Omdurman had been raided during Sudan’s violent civil war, which erupted in 2023.The family went to Egypt first before paying traffickers $350 (£338)…

A judge in northwestern Ohio found a pastor guilty on criminal charges Tuesday for failing to comply with the city fire code after he opened his church to let homeless people and others stay inside overnight to escape the winter chill. Chris Avell, pastor of Dad’s Place Church in the city of Bryan, could face a $200 fine and up to 60 days in jail if he continues to lket people to stay inside his church around the clock without state approval that the building is up to code.Bryan Municipal Court Judge Kent North’s decision is another step in a…

Pérnil al caldero is a Puerto Rican staple of succulent slow-cooked pork with shatteringly crisp skin that’s seasoned with adobo, a garlicky, oregano-spiced marinade. The name is a combination of pérnil — a pork roast, usually either the shoulder or ham — and caldero, the dish’s cooking vessel, an aluminum pot with rounded sides, a tight-fitting lid and excellent heat conduction.Achieving the dish’s characteristic crisp skin on the outside with juicy meat inside can be a challenge. In this recipe from our cookbook “ Milk Street 365: The All-Purpose Cookbook for Every Day of the Year,” we found the best…