by Roots and Resistance Resistance | Sep 9, 2024 | Palestine Updates
The Palestinian territories have seen an 85% drop in illiteracy rates in the last two decades, the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics said on Sunday, Anadolu Agency reports. In a statement marking World Literacy Day, the bureau said the illiteracy rate...
by Roots and Resistance Resistance | Sep 9, 2024 | Palestine Updates
Sudan has rejected a report from the UN Fact-Finding Mission, which accused warring factions in the country of committing severe human rights violations that could amount to war crimes, Anadolu reports. In a statement released late Saturday, the Foreign Ministry...
by Roots and Resistance Resistance | Sep 9, 2024 | Palestine Updates
In his first major television interview since entering 10 Downing Street, UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer appeared on the BBC to discuss a range of pressing issues, including the rise of far-right extremism and this summer’s riots, Anadolu Agency reports. In an...
by Roots and Resistance Resistance | Sep 9, 2024 | Palestine Updates
The Qatar Red Crescent and the UN agency for Palestinians (UNRWA) signed an agreement on Sunday, with $4.5 million from a Qatari state development fund, to aid more than 4,400 stranded Palestinian workers and patients from Gaza in the West Bank, Reuters reports....
by Roots and Resistance Resistance | Sep 7, 2024 | Palestine Updates
Pro-Palestinian students resumed protests Friday at Dutch universities, Anadolu Agency reports. Hundreds of students and academics gathered at the University of Amsterdam’s Roeterseiland (UvA) campus to protest the school administration for not severing ties with...
