Canada Commits 'Human Rights Violations' By Locking Up Children: Report
An average of at least 48 Canadian children are being held in immigration detention centres every year, harming their mental and physical...
The Huffington Post (Huffpost)
Feb 23, 2017
Vigilante Groups Fighting Boko Haram
Regional armies in the Lake Chad basin deploy vigilantes to sharpen campaigns against Boko Haram insurgents. But using these militias...
International Crisis Group 1
Feb 23, 2017
What's Behind Attacks on Foreigners in South Africa?
South Africa is experiencing a rise in what is being described as "xenophobic" violence. Locals are accusing migrants of stealing their...
Al Jazeera
Feb 23, 2017
African migrants in South Africa are in fear for their lives—again
Once again, there are signs of growing xenophobia in South Africa. Despite the lives lost in previous waves of violence, the country has...
Quartz Mediaso
Feb 22, 2017
Seminar on ‘Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing’
The Khojaly genocide of the 20th century is one of the most serious crimes in history not only against the people of Azerbaijan but...
Pakistan Observer
Feb 22, 2017
South African High Court Rejects ICC Withdrawal
South Africa’s North Gauteng High Court today ruled that the government’s attempt to withdraw from the International Criminal Court (ICC)...
Human Rights Watch
Feb 22, 2017
65,000 Rohingya flee from Myanmar to Bangladesh following crackdown: UN
At least 65,000 Rohingya have fled to Bangladesh from Myanmar – a third of them over the past week – since the army launched a crackdown...
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Feb 22, 2017
A Step Toward Justice in the Central African Republic
Last month I visited Bakala, a town in the center of the Central African Republic where serious fighting between two rebel groups had...
Human Rights Watch
Feb 22, 2017
Turkish Military Says 44 Islamic State Militants Killed in Syria
Forty-four Islamic State militants were killed by Turkey-backed operations around the Syrian town of al-Bab and in U.S.-led coalition air...
Reporting by Orhan Coskun | Writing by Daren
Feb 21, 2017
Toxic political agenda is dehumanising entire groups, Amnesty warns
By Emma Graham-Harrison Toxic political rhetoric with echoes of 1930s hate speech is stirring up violence worldwide – including in the UK...
The Guardian
Feb 21, 2017
IS lashes out at Egypt and threatens Salafis, Sunnis, MB and Copts
February 20, 2017 Egyptians hold vigil for victims of attack on Coptic church on 11 December, 2016 (AFP) The Islamic State group has...
MEE Staff
Feb 21, 2017
South Sudan Famine is A Collective Failure
By Jonathan Pedneault A boy watches sacks of food drop to the ground during a United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) airdrop close to...
Human Rights Watch
Feb 20, 2017
