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After days of mounting tensions and heightened Indian security presence in Kashmir, the Indian government announced that it would be revoking the region’s special status and splitting the territory in two - a major move that has sparked fears of unrest.

Following the resignation of two human rights commissioners, Angkhana Neelapaijit and Tuenjai Deetes, from the National Human Rights Commission of Thailand (NHRCT), Human Rights Watch has called for a “total revamp of the flawed and scandal-ridden agency”.

There is a very strong case for a second Scottish independence referendum if Britain leaves with a no-deal but there must be a democratic mandate, claims newly re-elected co-leader of Scottish Greens, Patrick Harvie.

A prominent investigative journalist, was forcefully arrested by Tanzanian police, who are looking into his citizenship, despite a 2013 government probe which concluded that his citizenship was not an issue.

Erick Kabendera, who has written for many international publications, was arrested on Monday by plainclothes police at his home on the outskirts of the commercial capital, Dar es Salaam.

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A survivor of the 1994 Rwandan genocide warned that around the world genocides continue to take place, highlighting the plight of the Rohingya in Myanmar and calling it a “shame on the world’s conscience”.

“I myself saw the first signs of genocide in Rwanda when I was five years old,” said Yolande Mukagasana, who lost her entire family in the Rwanda genocide. “Because I was a Tutsi, I was called a snake and a cockroach.”

“Now I am 65 years old and I still see genocide happening. It makes me furious. It shames us all.”

Speaking at the launch of her book “Not My Time To Die” in London last week, Mukagasana said she feels “so disappointed”.