Author: HR News Desk

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said Turkish security forces have killed 5,359 people identified by Ankara as PKK militants since July last year, according to the state-run Anadolu news agency, as Turkey continues cross-border operations against the group in Iraq and Syria amid ongoing disputes over civilian casualties. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said on Monday that Turkish security forces have killed 5,359 people identified as fighters for the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, since July of last year, according to the state-run Anadolu news agency. The figures relate specifically to individuals Turkey identifies as PKK militants, rather than the wider…

On a disused landfill site on the outskirts of Calais, an entire improvised society took shape as thousands of migrants, hoping to reach Britain, built shops, schools and places of worship out of almost nothing, even as French authorities began demolishing parts of the camp and Paris and London clashed over who should take responsibility for the people living there. An estimated 5,000 people were living in the makeshift refugee camp known as the “Jungle” on the outskirts of Calais, most of them hoping to eventually reach the UK and claim asylum there. Built on the site of a former…

An outbreak of measles has been reported at a refugee camp in Calais, northern France, in a setting that public health experts consider especially vulnerable to the rapid spread of the highly contagious virus. An outbreak of measles has been identified at a refugee camp in Calais, the northern French port city that has hosted large numbers of migrants and refugees for years, many of them living in temporary camps or informal settlements while attempting to reach the United Kingdom. Health experts have long warned that settings of this kind are particularly susceptible to outbreaks of measles and other vaccine-preventable…

The Council of Europe’s Commissioner for Human Rights, Michael O’Flaherty, has written to Poland’s Minister of Interior warning that legislation suspending access to asylum at the Poland-Belarus border is reportedly being applied even to people who never crossed that border, including Afghan nationals said to have been returned home without the chance to seek protection. Michael O’Flaherty, the Council of Europe’s Commissioner for Human Rights, has published a letter addressed to Poland’s Minister of Interior raising concerns over how the country is applying legislation that allows access to asylum to be temporarily suspended at its border with Belarus. According to…

A Dutch-born researcher at MIT and his colleagues have built an experimental anonymous messaging system named after the deafening World Cup horn, designed to protect users’ privacy by burying their real communications under a constant flood of decoy traffic. Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed an experimental anonymous communications system named Vuvuzela, designed to make it significantly harder for hackers, businesses and government agencies to monitor people’s online activity. The project was created by Jelle van den Hooff, a Dutch researcher who moved to MIT in 2010, working alongside fellow MIT researchers David Lazar, Matei Zaharia and…