Instruments of Pain (III): Conflict and Famine in Somalia
I.Overview History is at risk of tragically repeating itself. Once again, conflict-wracked Somalia is faced with mass hunger, just six...
International Crisis Group 1
May 9, 2017
ISIS Infiltrates the Rukban Refugee Camp at Jordan-Syria Border
By Bill Neely and Ziad Jaber A Jordanian military officail estimates that up to five percent of the camp's residents — about 4,000 people...
!Aa NBC News 1
May 8, 2017
Living proof: Surviving a massacre
Some deny a genocide ever occurred in Srebrenica. One survivor continues to live there to provide testimony of what happened....
BBC News
May 5, 2017
Mexico’s President Vows to Step Up Protections for Journalists
By Azam Ahmed MEXICO CITY — Faced with a wave of deadly attacks against journalists, the president of Mexico has vowed to take concrete...
New York Times 1
May 5, 2017
Philippines: UN Members Should Denounce Killings, Abuses
(Geneva) – United Nations member countries should denounce the Philippines’ brutal “war on drugs” that has killed more than 7,000 people...
Human Rights Watch
May 3, 2017
Security in the Aftermath of ISIS
President Trump has garnered reams of coverage and criticism for his executive order on refugees, but so far the press has shown little...
Andrew Doran, Robert Nicholson
May 2, 2017
COUNCIL OF EUROPE: Resolution 2163/2017 on the protection of the rights of parents and children belo
1. The Parliamentary Assembly notes that the population of the member States of the Council of Europe is more ethnically, culturally and...
!A Human Rights Without Frontiers (HRWF) 1
May 2, 2017
Conflict Exacerbates in Chocó
According to the Bishop of Quibdó: In Chocó (one department of Colombia) 20 out of the 30 municipalities have been declared in a state of...
ABColombia
Apr 30, 2017
Holocaust museum condemns 'torture and killing of gay men' in Chechnya
Ramzan Kadyrov, the President of Chechnya REUTERS The Chechen and Russian governments must investigate claims of persecution of gay men...
The Independent
Apr 28, 2017
Fighting ISIS: The Road to and beyond Raqqa
Overview In Raqqa the U.S.-led coalition to defeat the Islamic State (ISIS) faces its toughest test to date in Syria. The primary...
International Crisis Group 1
Apr 28, 2017
Brazil police, indigenous people clash in land rights protest
Brazilian military police in front of Congress fired tear gas and rubber bullets at indigenous protesters, who responded with arrows and...
!a Deutsche Welle 1
Apr 26, 2017
How Germany used Islam during World War I
Wunsdorf, Germany - It's late afternoon in Wunsdorf, a small town 50km south of Berlin. Winter has left the landscape dry and hazy, so...
Genocide Watch
Apr 26, 2017
