Globally Girls Struggle for Rights
What does child marriage mean for girls’ lives? And why does child marriage persist? Child marriage and a lack of access to quality...
Human Rights Watch
Oct 11, 2017
Darfur Wasn’t Saved
It was April 30, 2006, and a recently elected Illinois senator named Barack Obama walked up to a microphone on the National Mall in...
Justin Lynch | Slate
Oct 11, 2017
Discord in Yemen’s North Could Be a Chance for Peace
I.Overview A public rift between Ali Abdullah Saleh’s General People’s Congress party (GPC) and the Huthis (aka Ansar Allah) may change...
International Crisis Group 1
Oct 11, 2017
The prohibition of nuclear weapons: Assisting victims and remediating the environment
States have agreed upon a treaty with humanitarian foundations that prohibits nuclear weapons. It contains much, beyond its prohibitions,...
Elizabeth Minor | Humanitarian Law and Policy
Oct 10, 2017
The Domestic Challenge to Kyrgyzstan’s Milestone Election
Kyrgyzstan’s forthcoming presidential elections on 15 October are a milestone for Central Asia: for the first time, a president from the...
International Crisis Group 1
Oct 10, 2017
ISIS’s Other Victims
By Belkis Wille A woman fleeing the fighting between the Islamic State and Iraqi Security Forces in Intisar neighbourhood in eastern...
Human Rights Watch
Oct 9, 2017
Refugees, migrants, IDPs: Protecting people on the move—without distinction
‘ It is not the movement of persons that is the problem, it is the movement of persons without the protection of fundamental rights and...
In Bangladesh, an unfolding humanitarian crisis
Rohingya crowd the side of the road waiting for food distribution outside Cox's Bazar in Bangladesh on September 10, 2017. Photo by:...
Poppy McPherson | Devex
Oct 9, 2017
The Rising Risks of Misrule in Tajikistan
I.Overview Tajikistan’s 25 years as an independent state have been marred by poverty, endemic state corruption and the steady narrowing...
International Crisis Group 1
Oct 9, 2017
Photographer found dead one day after being abducted
The young Mexican photographer Edgar Daniel Esqueda Castro was abducted yesterday, on October 5th, in his home in the city of San Luis...
Reporters without Borders 1
Oct 6, 2017
Land of the Free, But Only for a Few
Refugees and asylum seekers protest against Australia’s offshore processing policy at a detention center on Manus Island, Papua New...
Al Jazeera
Oct 5, 2017
LGBT Refugees Find that Safety in West is Far from Absolute
By Boris Dittrich Campaigners protest for LGBT rights in Chechnya outside the Russian embassy in London, Britain, June 2, 2017. © 2017...
Human Rights Watch
Oct 5, 2017
