An Election Delay Can Help Avert Kenya’s Crisis
What’s happening? On 26 October, Kenya is scheduled to hold repeat presidential elections following the Supreme Court’s annulment of the...
International Crisis Group 1
Oct 23, 2017
Watch List 2017 – Third Update
Undocumented Migration from the Northern Triangle of Central America Flows of undocumented migrants from Central America, through Mexico...
International Crisis Group 1
Oct 18, 2017
New Satellite Images Confirm Mass Destruction
Complete destruction of Rohingya villages in close proximity to intact Rakhine village, Maungdaw township, recorded on 21 September...
Human Rights Watch
Oct 17, 2017
Values Voter Summit: Whose Values?
The Family Research Council (FRC) is hosting its annual Values Voter Summit Oct. 13-15, a rogues' gallery of the radical right, this year...
SPLC
Oct 13, 2017
Press freedom organizations condemn US withdrawal from UNESCO
Reporters Without Borders (RSF), ARTICLE 19 and the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) condemn the decision by the US government to...
Reporters without Borders 1
Oct 13, 2017
Free Khaing Myo Htun, Uphold Right to Freedom of Expression
Myanmar authorities should drop charges against ethnic-Rakhine human rights defender Khaing Myo Htun and immediately and unconditionally...
Fortify Rights International
Oct 13, 2017
The Social Roots of Jihadist Violence in Burkina Faso’s North
Executive Summary Long spared by the Sahel’s armed groups, Burkina Faso now faces increasingly frequent and lethal attacks in its north....
International Crisis Group 1
Oct 12, 2017
Globally Girls Struggle for Rights
What does child marriage mean for girls’ lives? And why does child marriage persist? Child marriage and a lack of access to quality...
Human Rights Watch
Oct 11, 2017
Darfur Wasn’t Saved
It was April 30, 2006, and a recently elected Illinois senator named Barack Obama walked up to a microphone on the National Mall in...
Justin Lynch | Slate
Oct 11, 2017
Discord in Yemen’s North Could Be a Chance for Peace
I.Overview A public rift between Ali Abdullah Saleh’s General People’s Congress party (GPC) and the Huthis (aka Ansar Allah) may change...
International Crisis Group 1
Oct 11, 2017
The prohibition of nuclear weapons: Assisting victims and remediating the environment
States have agreed upon a treaty with humanitarian foundations that prohibits nuclear weapons. It contains much, beyond its prohibitions,...
Elizabeth Minor | Humanitarian Law and Policy
Oct 10, 2017
The Domestic Challenge to Kyrgyzstan’s Milestone Election
Kyrgyzstan’s forthcoming presidential elections on 15 October are a milestone for Central Asia: for the first time, a president from the...
International Crisis Group 1
Oct 10, 2017
