Boko Haram strapped suicide bombs to them. Somehow these teenage girls survived.
By Dionne Searcey "They said to me, ‘Are you going to sleep with us, or do you want to go on a mission?’”AISHA, 15 “I didn’t want a...
New York Times 1
Oct 25, 2017
Sexual violence devastating, humanitarian needs mounting in Rohingya crisis
Horrific accounts of rape and other forms of sexual violence have been widely reported. © UNFPA Bangladesh/Naymuzzaman Prince “My sister...
Genocide Watch
Oct 20, 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
“They Said We Are Their Slaves”
Josephine, 28, said she fled her home in Bangui with her husband and five young children due to fighting in the city in October 2014....
Human Rights Watch
Oct 5, 2017
Military Massacres Dozens in Rohingya Village
Smoke is seen on Myanmar's side of border as an old Rohingya refugee woman is carried after crossing the Bangladesh-Myanmar border by...
Human Rights Watch
Oct 4, 2017
Sexual Violence as Weapon of War
Armed groups in the Central African Republic have used rape and sexual slavery as a tactic of war across the country during nearly five...
Human Rights Watch
Oct 4, 2017
Foreign Secretary Shahidul: The Rohingya are forcibly displaced Myanmar nationals, not refugees
'Rohingya people have taken shelter in Bangladesh in terror of their lives. But, we do not want to call them refugees. We have a strong...
Bilkis Irani
Sep 29, 2017
Rohingya Crisis: Int'l people's tribunal reveals horrific details of atrocities
A woman from Laung Don village fled her house when Myanmar soldiers came into the village, leaving behind her sister who had just given...
!a Maung Zarni 1
Sep 22, 2017
Without a Home, and Without Hope
By Brook Larmer “Dance!” shouted the army officer, waving a gun at the trembling girl. Afifa, just 14 years old, was corralled in a rice...
National Geographic
Sep 22, 2017
Slow Genocide Continues in Myannmar
A Bangladesh border guard looking at Rohingya refugees at the Jalpatoli refugee camp in the no-man’s land area between Myanmar and...
!a Maung Zarni 1
Sep 21, 2017
Bringing Daesh To Justice - A Real Action At Last?
In August 2017, Iraqi Minister of Foreign Affairs, H.E. Dr. Ibrahim al-Jaafari, wrote to the Secretary-General of the United Nations,...
Forbes
Sep 21, 2017
The children of South Sudan's war face hunger, rape and other violence on their long, often-soli
Obede Lutana, an orphan who found himself alone in a war zone after his father was killed. He says he is 15 years old, but looks younger....
Los Angeles Times
Sep 16, 2017
