How Turkey’s Campaign in Afrin Is Stoking Syrian Hatreds
Mohammed is not his real name. He asked me not to share personal details, fearing retaliation from the fighters he passes when he walks...
The New York Review of Books
Apr 11, 2018
Women in Serb-Controlled Region of Bosnia Still Await Compensation for Wartime Abuse
TUZLA, Bosnia-Herzegovina -- The third collection letter demanding that 64-year-old Semka Agic pay 3,000 convertible marks (roughly...
Koji Miki | The Mainichi
Apr 10, 2018
OPINION: Sudan: It’s High Time to Ratify the UN Convention Against Torture
April 9th, 2018-Sudan signed the UN Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CAT) in...
Amnesty International
Apr 10, 2018
For Women Raped During Bosnian War, Still no End to Pain 25 years Later
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina -- While nearly 20 years has passed since the end of the Bosnian War following the breakup of Yugoslavia,...
Koji Miki | The Mainichi
Apr 9, 2018
First They Came for the Rohingya
By Azeem Ibrahim In recent months, international media coverage of Myanmar has focused on the plight of the Rohingya people in the west...
Foreign Policy
Apr 9, 2018
Eritrea: Rights Abuses Continue Unabated
Mar 12th 2018–Repeated Human Rights Council resolutions have condemned “in the strongest terms” the “systematic, widespread and gross...
Human Rights Watch
Apr 9, 2018
Rwandans discuss how best to commemorate genocide
Rwanda is commemorating the 24th anniversary of the 1994 Tutsi genocide. This claimed the lives of between 800,000 and one million Tutsis...
Samantha Lakin; Eric Ndushabandi | The
Apr 6, 2018
Gay Chechens flee threats, beatings and exorcism
Family pressure has fueled a sense of persecution felt by gay people in Chechnya, a mainly Muslim region in southern Russia. Dozens have...
BBC News
Apr 6, 2018
Genocide Watch Releases Genocide Warning for Kurds in the Middle East
Over the weekend, Genocide Watch released the following Genocide Warning for Kurds in Turkey, Syria and Iraq. A Genocide Warning is...
Genocide Watch
Apr 2, 2018
ISIS Returnees Bring Both Hope and Fear to Chechnya
The victories over ISIS in Mosul and Raqqa pose a dilemma for states whose citizens travelled to join the Islamic State’s (ISIS) ranks...
International Crisis Group 1
Mar 26, 2018
Human Rights Council extends mandates on Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Syria, Iran, South S
The Human Rights Council in its midday meeting adopted five resolutions in which it extended the mandates on the Democratic People’s...
Genocide Watch
Mar 23, 2018
Human Rights Council adopts 10 texts, requests a high-level panel discussion on genocide and a study
Asks Special Rapporteur on Unilateral Coercive Measures to Present a Set of Elements to be Considered in the Preparation of a Draft...
Genocide Watch
Mar 23, 2018
