Photo credit: the Guardian Migrant workers across the Gulf are risking their lives by being forced to work up to 14 hours a day in deadly temperatures, according to human rights researchers. The Guardian reports that a human rights organization, Equidem, interviewed over 250 migrant workers in Saudi Arabia, Qatar and UAE between 2021 and May…
Photo credit: Shutterstock A friend sent a video to me some twenty four hours ago on whatsapp. That video made me ask the question, Are we OK? In the video, five boys are caught after they have burgled a shop. When I say they are boys, well, they are boys. But permit me to say…
Photo credit: BBC Tamil Sri Lankan asylum seekers who have been held for more than three years on the Island of Diego Garcia in the Chagos Archipelago, which is currently under colonial rule by the British Indian Island Territory Administration, will be offered the opportunity to transfer to the UK. LEIGH DAY reports that it…
Photo credit: Arise News A female student stripped to her underwear outside her university in Iran in what some student and rights groups say was a protest against the country’s strict Islamic dress code. CNN reports that the woman sitting outside the university in her underwear, with her hair uncovered, gestured to her fellow students….
Adewale Sobowale I got a friend request yesterday. It was from a former student of mine. Who am I not to have immediately accepted the request? After accepting the request, I settled down to do this and that. In the latish hours, while jejely obeying the panegyric of my roots, Omo oru laa sika; Taa…
Photo credit: Forbes The presidential election of the United States is rounding to a close. But whoever wins, let’s look at the Trumpish character and consider whether or not he has done anything extraordinary. First, the fact that he could rise to become president of what we thought was the greatest democratic space in the…
