Helen Hintjens, Change.org
- Aug 20, 2020
Petition: Save Congo's Banyamulenge minority
Banyamulenge civilians besieged and under attack in Minembwe, Bijombo and Mikenge in South Kivu. Special protection is now needed to save lives of these civilians. Under constant attack from several armed forces, including the national army, it seems MONUSCO UN forces are currently unable to protect the Banyamulenge from these killings. This situation has been the subject of a Genocide Warning, on the Genocide Watch website. A demand for urgent intervention for protection of
Ted Regencia | Al Jazeera
- Aug 19, 2020
Human rights leader killed in Philippine 'war against dissent'
Zara Alvarez is 13th member of her group to be killed since President Rodrigo Duterte came to power in 2016. A human rights leader has been killed in the central Philippines in what observers and rights defenders have said is a continuing escalation of the "war against dissent" under the administration of President Rodrigo Duterte. Zara Alvarez, former education director of the human rights alliance Karapatan, died on the spot after being shot six times on Monday evening as s
RFI
- Aug 16, 2020
Centrafrique: l'ONU sanctionne Sidiki Abass, leader du groupe armé 3R
Les Nations unies ajoute un nom sur leur liste des sanctions concernant la Centrafrique : celui de Bidi Sidi Souleman, alias Sidiki Abass, leader du groupe armé 3R. Le groupe armé 3R a tué, torturé, violé et déplacé des civils. Il s’est livré au trafic d’armes, à des activités de taxation illégales et s’est engagé dans une guerre avec d’autres milices, détaille le comité de sanctions. Sidiki Abass a lui-même participé à des actes de torture, affirme la note des Nations unies
Patient Ligodi, RFI
- Aug 16, 2020
Massacre de civils en RDC: arrestations d’officiers de l’armée et de la police à Béni
Des hauts officiers de l’armée et de la police nationale congolaises sont visés par des enquêtes sur le massacre de la population en 2017 à Nganza dans le Kasaï central. Selon plusieurs ONG, environ 300 civils assimilés aux miliciens de Kamwina Nsapu avaient été tués. Vendredi, 7 officiers des Forces armées de la RDC (FARDC) et un haut officier de la police nationale congolaise ont été interpellés à ce sujet vendredi à Beni (Nord-Kivu). Ils sont soupçonnés d’être impliqués da
RFI
- Aug 16, 2020
Côte d’Ivoire: vifs débats autour de la constitutionnalité de la candidature Ouattara
Dans son discours à la nation, jeudi 6 août, le président ivoirien a confirmé qu'il briguerait un troisième mandat. Lors de l'édition spéciale consacrée par RFI à cette annonce, les débats ont notamment porté sur la constitutionnalité de cette candidature. Extraits. Pour Adama Bictogo, le directeur exécutif du Rassemblement des houphouëtistes pour la démocratie et la paix (RHDP, le regroupement de la majorité présidentielle), la candidature du président à un troisième mandat
Al Jazeera
- Aug 16, 2020
Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara to run for third term
Ouattara rejects claims by his opponents who say a two-term limit in the constitution bars him from running again. Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara has said he would seek re-election in October, formally accepting the governing party's nomination to be its candidate and defying opponents who say the constitution forbids a third term. Ouattara, who has governed since 2011, said in March he would not run again. But his preferred successor, then-Prime Minister Amadou Gon
Al Jazeera
- Aug 15, 2020
India: Police patrol parts of Bengaluru hit by deadly violence
At least three died in police firing during protest against a Facebook post that allegedly insulted Prophet Muhammad. Baton-wielding police have patrolled barricaded and deserted streets in parts of the southern Indian tech hub of Bengaluru, after three people were killed in Tuesday night clashes triggered by a Facebook post offensive to Muslims. A police official said an emergency law prohibiting gatherings had been imposed in Bengaluru, a city of 12 million people known as
Al Jazeera
- Aug 15, 2020
UN discusses Kashmir for third time since India ended autonomy
The UN's most powerful body did not take any action or issue a statement after the virtual meeting behind closed doors. The UN Security Council discussed disputed Kashmir at Pakistan's request on Wednesday for the third time since India's Hindu nationalist government decided to end the Muslim-majority region's semi-autonomy a year ago. The United Nations's most powerful body did not take any action or issue a statement after the virtual meeting held behind closed doors. Nonet
Al Jazeera
- Aug 15, 2020
UN says Facebook has not shared 'evidence' of Myanmar crime
UN investigators say Facebook played a key role in spreading hate speech that fuelled the violence against Rohingya. The head of a UN investigative body on Myanmar said Facebook has not released evidence of "serious international crimes", despite promising to work with investigators looking into abuses in the country including against the majority-Muslim Rohingya. Nicholas Koumjian, head of the Independent Investigative Mechanism on Myanmar (IIMM), told the Reuters news agenc
Fiona Neibart | Genocide Watch
- Aug 15, 2020
Genocide Watch: Pakistan
Prime Minister Imran Khan’s government has cracked down on journalists, activists, nongovernmental organizations, and the political opposition. Arbitrary detentions and extrajudicial killings by law enforcement agencies continue with impunity. Blasphemy-related violence against religious minorities, such as Buddhists, Christians, Hindus and others, fostered by government persecution and discriminatory laws, is frequent. Women, religious minorities, and transgender people cont
Al Jazeera
- Aug 13, 2020
Thai king stays silent on protesters' call for reform of monarchy
Maha Vajiralongkorn urges 'order and peace' in the country as he swears in a new cabinet of Prime Minister Prayuth. Thailand's King Maha Vajiralongkorn has called for "order and peace" in the country but stayed silent about the recent anti-government student protests that have urged reforms of the powerful monarchy, as he swore in a new cabinet of Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha. The ceremony on Wednesday marked the king's first public appearance since the nearly unprecedent
Al Jazeera
- Aug 13, 2020
Myanmar bars Rohingya candidate from contesting election
Most Rohingya not considered citizens and will have no vote, living in what Amnesty describes 'apartheid' conditions. A Rohingya Muslim has been barred from standing in Myanmar's upcoming election, in a decision decried by rights groups as discriminatory and a symptom of the "ongoing genocide" against the persecuted minority. A 2017 military operation drove 750,000 Rohingya out of the country into sprawling refugee camps in neighbouring Bangladesh, prompting genocide charges
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