Myanmar Rejects U.N. Findings: ‘No Ethnic Cleansing or Genocide in Our Country’
By Hannah Beech and Saw Nang Senior Myanmar officials denied on Wednesday that the country’s military had committed any crimes against...
New York Times 1
Mar 14, 2018
Stolen Lives: More Girls Kidnapped as Violence Escalates in Nigeria
Terrorists continue to attack northern Nigeria, and Christians are in the crosshairs. During the evening hours of February 19, Boko Haram...
21st Century Wilberforce Initiative 11
Mar 13, 2018
Myanmar: UN expert calls for accountability over violence in Rakhine State
The UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar, Yanghee Lee, told the Human Rights Council on Monday she was...
Genocide Watch
Mar 12, 2018
Fact-finding Mission on Myanmar: concrete and overwhelming information points to international crime
Experts of the UN Fact-finding Mission on Myanmar called on Myanmar authorities Monday to stop dismissing reports that serious human...
Genocide Watch
Mar 12, 2018
Human Rights Council discusses human rights situation in Myanmar
The Human Rights Council in its midday meeting held an interactive dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights...
Genocide Watch
Mar 12, 2018
International human rights and free speech organisations express grave concerns as Cumhuriyet trial
Amnesty International, ARTICLE 19, European Centre for Press and Media Freedom, PEN Belgium/Flanders, PEN Nederland, PEN International...
Reporters without Borders 1
Mar 8, 2018
International Women's Day 2018
Today, in honor of International Women's Day, we would like to commemorate women from all around the world for their strength and...
Darfur Women Action Group
Mar 8, 2018
U.S. Holocaust Museum Revokes Award to Aung San Suu Kyi
By Michael Schwirtz The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum has revoked a prestigious human rights award it had given to the Nobel...
New York Times 1
Mar 7, 2018
Rwanda's Recovery: When Remembrance is Official Policy
When the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF), the rebel movement led by Paul Kagame, captured control of Rwanda and halted the genocide in July...
Foreign Affairs
Mar 7, 2018
A Hidden Face of War
By Isabelle Arradon A few years ago, a woman in her sixties outside Banda Aceh in Indonesia told me about the rape and other torture she...
International Crisis Group 1
Mar 7, 2018
Their forefathers were enslaved. Now, 400 years later, their children will be landowners
It was a modest ceremony for such a significant victory: it is not every day that the descendants of enslaved people are given the title...
The Guardian
Mar 5, 2018
RSF shines light on “forbidden coverage” of women’s rights
To mark International Women’s Day (March 8), Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is publishing a report entitled “Women’s rights: Forbidden...
Reporters without Borders 1
Mar 5, 2018
