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Myanmar has barred an independent U.N. rights investigator and withdrawn any government cooperation for the rest of her tenure, prompting...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
U.N. Human Rights Chief to Leave, Citing ‘Appalling’ Climate for Advocacy
Zeid Ra’ad Hussein worries the global retreat from human rights makes his job untenable. The United Nations’ top human rights advocate...
Foreign Policy
Dec 21, 2017
Yugoslavia tribunal closes, leaving a powerful legacy of war crimes justice
The court that put Slobodan Milošević in the dock is to be formally dissolved this week after 24 years and 161 indictments. Victims’...
The Guardian
Dec 20, 2017
Written in Blood and Rust from a Syrian Prison: “Don’t Forget Us”
Mansour Omari, a Syrian journalist in his mid-thirties with wavy hair and sideburns, spent a year documenting the names of detainees who...
The New Yorker
Dec 20, 2017
OPINION: In 2017, no one has fallen further than Aung San Suu Kyi
The world is a mess. Wars are devouring civilian lives. In the United States and elsewhere, populist leaders are eroding eroded...
Christian Caryl | The Washington Post
Dec 20, 2017
Myanmar’s Crackdown On Human Rights Continues As It Denies Entry To UN Investigator
Myanmar’s government rescinded access by a United Nations official who has been investigating human rights in the country, including the...
The Huffington Post (Huffpost)
Dec 20, 2017
