Current World Issues- Daniel Theuri

Bangladesh: Trafficking of girls rife in Rohingya camps Noyona Katun, a Rohingya refugee from Myanmar, said her daughter Yasmin was 13 years old when she was snatched by a man in the Kutupalong Refugee Camp in southern Bangladesh and smuggled to India. That was three years ago. Noyona and Yasmin fled a military crackdown in Myanmar in 2012. Noyona said the trafficker was arrested in India and Yasmin was rescued. Her daughter is living at a safe house for other trafficking victims in Kolkata. Myanmar stripped the Rohingya of citizenship in 1982, which means Noyona and Yasmin do not have passports so they cannot be reunited. Noyona saves a little money every month to chat to her daughter for a few minutes on the phone. "Only God knows the pain I experience every day," she said. "I don't have money to go to India. My daughter warns me not to try and cross into India without passport." Common story Noyona's story is not uncommon in the Rohingya...

Why Jerusalem is not the capital of Israel US President  Donald Trump  called Jerusalem the capital of Israel on December 6 and began the process of moving his country's embassy to the city.  The move sparked global  condemnation  from world leaders.  Israel occupied  East Jerusalem  at the end of the  1967 War  with Syria, Egypt and  Jordan ; the western half of the holy city had been captured in the  1948 Arab-Israeli war . Israel's occupation of East Jerusalem effectively put the entire city under de facto Israeli control. Israeli jurisdiction and ownership of Jerusalem, however, is not recognised by the international community, including the  United States .  The status of Jerusalem remains one of the main sticking points in efforts to resolve the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. International community position  Under the 1947 UN Partition Plan to  divide historical Palestine ...

A Trump decree is killing innocent civilians in Somalia US President  Donald Trump  loves signing executive orders. During his first year in office, he has signed dozens of controversial orders on a wide variety of subjects, ranging from national security to trade. Some of these executive orders, such as the ones on the Muslim travel ban and the Mexican border wall, received a lot of media attention and triggered protests around the world. But many other decisions by the president, causing death and destruction in faraway places like  Somalia , went considerably unnoticed.  Only weeks after taking office, Trump signed a directive declaring parts of Somalia an "area of active hostilities". This declaration relaxed some of the rules aimed at preventing civilian casualties when the  US  military carries out counterterrorism strikes in Somalia.  The Pentagon claimed that this order expanded its targeting authority "to defeat al-Shabab in Somalia"...

Europe stumbles forward in search for migration policy Athens, Greece -  Greek Migration Minister Yannis  Mouzalas  has lashed out at six  European Union  countries for "sabotaging" the bloc's refugee relocation scheme and undermining efforts to craft a common asylum policy. An original European Commission proposal seeking to redistribute 160,000 asylum seekers throughout the EU from overcrowded camps in  Greece  and Italy fell significantly short after completing just 31,000 relocations by its end last September. "We were slow to implement the proposals," Mouzalas  said on Tuesday. "There were member states … which sabotaged these proposals; and it took a great struggle on the part of the Commission and the ministries to prevent this sabotage from leading to a failure of the programme."   Mouzalas  was referring to  Hungary , Poland and Denmark, who refused to participate in the programme.  Austria ,...