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
Australia to train Myanmar military despite ethnic cleansing accusations
By Elise Thomas The Australian defence department plans to spend almost $400,000 on English lessons, event attendances and training...
The Guardian
Mar 5, 2018
UN Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict calls for end to ‘culture of denial’ in Sud
UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict, Pramila Patten, has called for an end to the ‘culture...
Radio Dabanga
Mar 1, 2018
Countering Jihadist Militancy in Bangladesh
What’s new? Two groups, Jamaat-ul Mujahideen Bangladesh and Ansarul Islam, dominate Bangladesh’s jihadist landscape today. Attacks since...
International Crisis Group 1
Feb 28, 2018
UN Yemen envoy: Houthis scrapped peace deal at last minute
In a swansong address on Tuesday, the United Nations envoy on Yemen described being tantalisingly close to a peace deal to end Yemen’s...
Middle East Eye
Feb 27, 2018
