UNAMID to Be Gutted by UN Security Council, Creating Intolerable Risks for Civilians in Darfur
I will be writing at length soon analyzing the various implications of this callous, finally barbarous Security Council decision to...
Sudan - Research, Analysis, and Advocacy 1
Jun 12, 2017
Six years since resumption of Civil War in Kachin
Children born on the day civil war reignited in Kachin State are now starting their first grade in school, this week. Thousands of IDPs...
Burma Link
Jun 9, 2017
UN Leader Should Feature Rights on Regional Visit
United Nations secretary-general Antonio Guterres’ trip to Central Asia, beginning June 8, 2017, is a major opportunity for the UN to...
Human Rights Watch
Jun 7, 2017
Peace in Darfur Was Long Entrusted to Qataris: What we see of Qatar now
After the disastrous failure of the Darfur Peace Agreement (DPA) of May 2006 (Abuja, Nigeria), neither the Bush administration nor the...
Sudan - Research, Analysis, and Advocacy 1
Jun 5, 2017
Mangaung mayor must take a taste of her own medicine
Trade union Solidarity lodged a complaint with the South African Human Rights Commission (HRC) against Olly Mlamleli, executive mayor of...
Solidariteit Solidarity
Jun 2, 2017
Burundi Youth Militia Compares Opposition to Lice in Video
Burundi human rights activists expressed outrage Tuesday over an online video that shows pro-government youth militia members teaching...
VOA (Voice of America)
May 30, 2017
300,000 Child Refugees and Migrants Traveled Alone in ’15 and ’16, U.N. Says
UNITED NATIONS — The number of children traveling by themselves among documented refugees and migrants has nearly quintupled to the...
New York Times 1
May 17, 2017
Aung San Suu Kyi met by protesters, criticism upon receiving Freedom of London award
Burma State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi receives Honorary Freedom of the City of London at Guildhall on May 8, 2017. Source: City of...
Asian Correspondent
May 12, 2017
Attacks on Gay Men in Chechnya: The Kremlin's Role in These and Other Human Rights Abuses
Police in Chechnya, a region in southern Russia, are rounding up men believed to be gay, beating and humiliating them. HRW’s Russia...
Human Rights Watch
May 9, 2017
Instruments of Pain (III): Conflict and Famine in Somalia
I.Overview History is at risk of tragically repeating itself. Once again, conflict-wracked Somalia is faced with mass hunger, just six...
International Crisis Group 1
May 9, 2017
Mexico’s President Vows to Step Up Protections for Journalists
By Azam Ahmed MEXICO CITY — Faced with a wave of deadly attacks against journalists, the president of Mexico has vowed to take concrete...
New York Times 1
May 5, 2017
Philippines: UN Members Should Denounce Killings, Abuses
(Geneva) – United Nations member countries should denounce the Philippines’ brutal “war on drugs” that has killed more than 7,000 people...
Human Rights Watch
May 3, 2017
