Why Is Sri Lanka Defying the United Nations? Sri Lanka’s strategy of defiance, denial, and delay mig
Lately, Colombo has intensified its defiance of UN resolutions calling for investigations into war crimes committed during the latter...
The Diplomat
Dec 22, 2017
Rwanda: French Judges Close Habyarimana Probe
French investigating judges have closed a long-running inquiry into the shooting down of former Rwandan president Juvénal Habyarimana's...
The New Times
Dec 22, 2017
How ISIS Changed the Yezidi Religion
Those who went into exile have creatively adapted their rituals. Those who stayed have been just as innovative. By Cathy Otten BEHZANE,...
The Atlantic
Dec 22, 2017
Myanmar Bans U.N. Official Investigating Human Rights Abuses Against Rohingya
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Yanghee Lee has been the United Nations' special rapporteur on Myanmar for more than three years. She's documented...
NPR 1
Dec 22, 2017
Accounts of violence against Rohingya Muslims must be documented: Bob Rae
"Chilling and graphic" eyewitness accounts of violence against hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslim refugees must be documented so...
Michelle Zillio | The Globe and Mail
Dec 21, 2017
Myanmar Blacklists a U.N. Rights Investigator as Genocide Accusations Intensify
Myanmar has barred an independent U.N. rights investigator and withdrawn any government cooperation for the rest of her tenure, prompting...
TIME (Time Magazine)
Dec 21, 2017
Coping with trans-generational trauma: a key feature of peacebuilding work in Rwanda
Within a 100-day span in the spring and summer of 1994 the Rwandan genocide claimed the lives of an estimated 500,000-1,000,000 Tutsis...
Jean de Dieu Basabose | Peace Insight
Dec 21, 2017
Genocide Survivors Celebrate Christmas in Iraq
When ISIS arose in 2014, the jihadist force swept across northern Iraq and carried out an ethnic cleansing campaign of Christian villages...
Geoffrey Johnston | The Whig
Dec 21, 2017
Myanmar: UN experts urge greater press freedom after detention of Reuters journalists
Myanmar must ensure that journalists can operate freely and safely, UN human rights specialists* have urged, after two Reuters...
Genocide Watch
Dec 21, 2017
Civil War Pushing South Sudan Closer to Starvation
JIECH, SOUTH SUDAN — Writhing in agony on the dirt floor of his hut, Bob Wol traced the recent gunshot wounds on his thigh and back with...
Associated Press 1
Dec 21, 2017
Inside One Of The World’s Largest Refugee Camps, Rohingya Women Can’t Escape Trauma
Imagine a place where over half the population is under 18, and most of the adult population are women, many of whom have been raped at...
The Huffington Post (Huffpost)
Dec 21, 2017
Burma Bars UN Rights Expert
The Burmese government plans to permanently bar entry to Yanghee Lee, the United Nations special rapporteur on human rights in Burma....
Human Rights Watch
Dec 21, 2017
