Peace accord in CAR breaks down hours after its signing with renewed violence in Bria
Earlier this week, officials from the government of the Central African Republic met with representatives from the major rebel groups in...
!a Responsibility to Protect (RtoP) Weekly 1
Jun 22, 2017
People With Disabilities at Risk in Central African Republic
File--In this April 14, 2014 photo, Hamamatou Harouna, 10, crawls to the restroom on the grounds of the Catholic Church where she and...
Associated Press 1
Jun 21, 2017
EU Takes Lead in Campaign to Prevent Gender-based Violence
FILE - a South Sudanese refugee and 32-year-old mother, who was raped for several days by a group of soldiers before she was allowed to...
VOA (Voice of America)
Jun 21, 2017
Justice Needed for Lasting Peace in Central African Republic
Civilians in the Central African Republic caught a break this week. The government and armed groups signed a peace accord on June 19 that...
Human Rights Watch
Jun 20, 2017
Kazakhstan: Eight Muslim Prisoners of Conscience Sentenced
On 7 April, at the end of a closed trial, a court in the north-eastern city of Pavlodar sentenced Sunni Muslim Kuanysh Bashpayev to four...
!A Human Rights Without Frontiers (HRWF) 1
Jun 16, 2017
Civilian Deaths in Raqqa Mount as US-led Coalition Forces Push to Reclaim City from ISIL
Since beginning a large-scale offensive campaign on 6 June, the US-led coalition has continued to advance in Raqqa, the de facto capital...
!a Responsibility to Protect (RtoP) Weekly 1
Jun 16, 2017
UN Secretary-General Fails to Speak Up for Rights in Central Asia
By Hugh Williamson United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres shakes hands with Kyrgyz President Almazbek Atambaev during their...
Human Rights Watch
Jun 15, 2017
Statement by Ms. Yanghee LEE, Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in Myanmar at the
Agenda item 4 Geneva, 15 June 2017 Distinguished Representatives, Ladies and Gentlemen, I thank you for the opportunity to once again...
Genocide Watch
Jun 15, 2017
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
