Author: Fawzan Aslam
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“People don’t know”: Sudanese students speak out on genocide, war in Sudan
Over 150,000 people have been killed and around 13 million people displaced in the ongoing war and genocide in Sudan, according to BBC and United Nations Refugee Agency. The conflict, which began after the 2019 fall of dictator Omar al-Bashir, is a power struggle between the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), a paramilitary group, and the…
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Uyghur students speak out about China’s genocide, building community in US
Over hundreds of thousands of Muslims are imprisoned in China’s concentration camps, according to Amnesty International. Among them is Hadija Yahya’s uncles, whom she has never been able to contact. “We don’t have any relatives in the US,” the freshman biology major, who is of Uyghur descent, said. “My uncles are in concentration camps.” Who…
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Afghan girls’ education relied on USAID. Now, it’s at risk of shutting down.
On a frigid Tuesday afternoon, maintenance crews removed the silver-coated letters from the organization’s headquarters in Washington, D.C. This wasn’t just signage being taken down from a federal building — it was the erasure of a symbol imprinted on thousands of tents, bags of food, and humanitarian resources that millions across the globe relied on…
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