Violence against women in South Sudan is occurring at twice the global average rate
The country’s civil war has killed more than 50,000 people, forced more than two million to flee abroad and plunged parts of the country...
The Independent
Nov 29, 2017
BURUNDI: This east African country is waging a war on its women
Burundi has been in political turmoil ever since president Pierre Nkurunziza ran for a third term in 2015, flouting the country’s...
Linsey Chutel | Quartz Africa
Nov 29, 2017
U.N. seeks report from Myanmar on rapes, deaths of Rohingya women
A United Nations women's rights panel called on Myanmar on Tuesday to report within six months on rapes and sexual violence against...
Reuters
Nov 28, 2017
Bangladesh: Mass Death Sentences Confirmed
Members of the Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) are summoned for a hearing before a special court in Dhaka, July 12, 2010. © 2010 Reuters The...
Human Rights Watch
Nov 28, 2017
Ethiopia says ethnic clashes kill more than 20 in past week
Ethiopia's government says more than 20 people have been killed in renewed clashes between ethnic Oromos and Somalis in the past week....
News24
Nov 27, 2017
Rohingya still fleeing Myanmar despite repatriation deal
Newly arrived Rohingya refugees wait to receive permission from the Bangladeshi army to continue their way after crossing the...
Dhaka Tribune 1
Nov 27, 2017
Pope Francis arrives in Myanmar amid Rohingya crisis
Pope Francis previously condemned the atrocities committed against the Rohingya [Max Rossi/Reuters] Pope Francis has arrived in Myanmar...
Al Jazeera
Nov 27, 2017
Turkish Woman In Symbol Photo: These Red Crosses Mean That Alevis To Be Killed
The anxiety of the Alevis, whose houses were marked with a red cross in Turkey's Malatya province, has come to the agenda with this...
Stockholm Center for Freedom
Nov 26, 2017
EU, Khartoum process, blind-eye to human rights in Sudan
The European Union has pledged hundreds of millions of euros for the ’Khartoum Process’, a multinational effort to manage migration from...
Sudan Tribune
Nov 25, 2017
US ‘Ethnic Cleansing’ Charge Won’t Help Govt Solve Rakhine Issue, President’s Office Says
The US decision to label the Myanmar Army’s counter-insurgency operation in northern Rakhine as “ethnic cleansing” is “unhelpful” for...
Irrawaddy
Nov 24, 2017
US calls Myanmar treatment of Rohingya 'ethnic cleansing'
Rohingya refugees wait to cross into Bangladesh. Photograph: Fred Dufour/AFP/Getty Images The United States has called the Myanmar...
The Guardian
Nov 23, 2017
Reworking the Colonial-Era Indian Peril: Myanmar’s State-Directed Persecution of Rohingyas and Other
By Maung Zarni and Natalie Brinham Introduction Myanmar’s widely hailed transition from military dictatorship to a Chinese model of...
!a Maung Zarni 1
Nov 23, 2017
