On Monday 8^th June, the UN published its annual report on children and armed conflict but excluded Israel from its blacklist of states or armed groups that violate children’s rights. This is despite calls from various rights organisations to include the Jewish state on the list due to its murder of around 540 children and injuring of over 3000 in its onslaught against the Muslims of Gaza last year which also caused at least 373,000 children to require specialist psychosocial support due to the extreme distress they suffered as a result of the indiscriminate bombing of homes, hospitals and residential areas by Zionist forces

09th June 2015: We do not yet have a complete strategy against IS (Source: Associated Press)

At a press conference following the G7 Summit in the Bavarian village Krün, President Barack Obama admitted that the US does not have a complete strategy for countering the Islamic State terror group.

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"Our situation here is like a prison. We are not free. I wish I was a bird, free from this condition." - A 35-year-old Nayapara Rohingya woman.

"I cannot sleep soundly here; I am afraid they will come any moment and force me to go back. We have no money. My husband is not allowed to work. We are just like prisoners here." - A 30-year-old refugee woman in Nayapara camp.

"The firewood usually lasts 15 days. Usually I send my child or husband to the forest to fetch wood or dry leaves, but it is dangerous; there are robbers, and the villagers or forest rangers demand money from us. They take our tools sometimes or beat us until we pay. But we don't have any money to pay.

Authorities in Thailand had discovered at least 32 mass graves at an abandoned jungle camp in the Sadao district of Thailand's southern Songkhla Province bordering Malaysia on May 1 after launching a weeping crackdown on human trafficking. Few days after the terrible reports of Thai mass gravesites, once again the world was caught by shock with an appalling discovery of about 139 mass graves along Malaysia's border with Thailand. The dead bodies were of world's most persecuted Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar who had been forcibly removed from their homes and put on migrant ships, and the rest are impoverished Bangladeshis.