As world leaders meet at COP28, Islamic Relief says the summit must finally deliver an unequivocal agreement to phase out the use of fossil fuels and limit global heating to 1.5 degrees. This year has been the planet’s hottest year on record and climate change is plunging billions of people all over the world into [...]
Category Archives: Maklumat Umum
After briefly pressing pause, it is outrageous that the killing and destruction is now just resuming as if nothing has changed. Before the truce, a child in Gaza was being killed almost every 10 minutes. It is unconscionable that the international community is now standing by and allowing this bloodshed to continue. More than [...]
November 29th, 2023
Maklumat Umum
The extension of the temporary truce agreement is welcome, Islamic Relief points out, but this must now be another step towards agreeing a permanent ceasefire. The truce has ensured a pause of the bombing of civilians in Gaza for the first time in 7 weeks, and the safe release of some of the hostages and [...]
The trauma of early marriage and divorce is something no teenager should have to go through. But that is what Dil has experienced in the tough environment of a refugee camp in Bangladesh. Dil’s story underlines the enduring importance of 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence, the annual United Nations-led campaign supported by Islamic [...]
Nora is a survivor twice over – a courageous woman who has faced the horrors of natural disaster and domestic abuse. Nora lives with her 8 children in a coastal village called Sani-Sani in the province of Surigao Del Norte in the Philippines. In 2021 the family faced the full force of Typhoon Rai, tearing [...]
Behind the picturesque landscapes of Bosnia and Herzegovina lies a stark reality: a grim pattern of femicide that demands urgent attention and action. Femicide is the most extreme form of gender-based violence (GBV) – a horrific hate crime in which women are murdered in cold blood. 1 area alone, Tuzla, has witnessed the killing of [...]
