U.N. Security Council Pushes Myanmar on Accountability Over Rohingya
5/9/2018 UNITED NATIONS — The United Nations Security Council urged Myanmar’s government on Wednesday to carry out transparent...
New York Times 1
May 12, 2018
Authoritarianism as usual
‘Why do authoritarian regimes love elections?’ asked sociologist Amro Ali, referring to the assured reelection of Egypt’s incumbent...
Le Monde
Apr 27, 2018
Theresa May 'deeply regrets' UK's colonial anti-gay laws
By Farouk Chothia British Prime Minister Theresa May has said she deeply regrets the UK's role in criminalizing same-sex relations in its...
BBC News
Apr 27, 2018
South Sudan president rejects opposition calls to quit post
By Denis Dumo April 25, 2018-JUBA (Reuters) - South Sudan President Salva Kiir has rejected opposition calls for him to resign as part of...
Reuters
Apr 27, 2018
Israel Admits: Plan to Relocate Asylum Seekers Has Collapsed, No Way to Forcefully Deport Africans
April 24, 2018—Israel has admitted in court on Tuesday that its plan to relocate African asylum seekers has fallen through and that...
Haaretz
Apr 27, 2018
Joint Statement by Germany, Norway, the United Kingdom and the United States on the Darfur Peace Pro
April 24, 2018-Representatives of the Government of Sudan, the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) and the Sudan Liberation Movement/Army...
ReliefWeb
Apr 27, 2018
How Germany's anti-Semitism commissioner plans to fight hatred
When he takes up his new position, Felix Klein wants to establish a national database of anti-Jewish incidents. He's also calling for...
!a Deutsche Welle 1
Apr 27, 2018
NEWS BRIEFING: Cameroon’s Anglophone Crisis: How the Catholic Church Can Promote Dialogue
The Anglophone crisis in Cameroon is growing deadlier. The Catholic Church could mediate between Anglophone militants and the state, but...
International Crisis Group 1
Apr 26, 2018
‘Genocide of Black People’: The Killing of Afro-Brazilians by Police Is an Injustice Marielle Franco
Artists like Juliana Fervo have painted murals of Marielle Franco across Rio de Janeiro. (Photo: Kiratiana Freelon) They walked 2.5 miles...
Kiratiana Freelon | The Root
Apr 26, 2018
Mass Graves with 2,000 Bodies Discovered Two Decades After Rwanda Genocide
A Rwandan worker cleans a mass grave outside the church in Nyanza April 4, 2004. As Rwandans prepare to go to the polls on August 9,...
TIME (Time Magazine)
Apr 26, 2018
KRISTOF: Why Does Trump Treat Immigrant Kids Cruelly? Because He Can
By Nicholas Kristof A lifetime ago, Anne Frank’s family applied for visas to the United States to escape Hitler, but we rejected the...
New York Times 1
Apr 26, 2018
Holocaust Museum rethinks FDR’s World War II refugee legacy
Children looking at Statue of Liberty, June 4, 1939; on view at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. (United States Holocaust...
Washington Post
Apr 26, 2018
