Josh Lowe, Newsweek
- Apr 14, 2016
Turkish Opposition Politician Slams EU & U.S. for Erdogan Deals
Selahattin Demirtas, co-chairman of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), in Istanbul, Turkey, October 31. Demirtas has...
Owen Gibson, The Guardian
- Apr 14, 2016
Qatar: FIFA Faces ‘tough decision’ Over World Cup if Human Rights Abuses Continue
Image: Qatar’s treatment of migrant workers building the infrastructure to host the 2022 tournament has come under the spotlight....
Human Rights Watch
- Apr 14, 2016
ICC: Kenya Deputy President’s Case Ends: Witness Interference Undermined Trial
(Brussels) – Efforts by the International Criminal Court (ICC) to bring to justice those responsible for Kenya’s deadly 2007-2008...
Kambiz Foroohar, Bloomberg
- Apr 13, 2016
Iran: U.S. Frowns on New Sanctions by Congress After Missile Test
Image: Missile test, retrieved from Bloomberg article. A top Treasury Department official argued against imposing new legislative...
Gregory H. Stanton, Julian Ku, Nina Shea
- Apr 12, 2016
Podcast: We’ve Said It – Now What? Genocide in the Middle East
For the full voice podcast please visit the Federalist Society. After much prodding from human rights advocates and congressional...
Bono, The New York Times
- Apr 12, 2016
Time to Think Bigger About the Refugee Crisis
I’VE recently returned from the Middle East and East Africa, where I visited a number of refugee camps — car parks of humanity. I went as...
Eric Reeves
- Apr 9, 2016
Notes from the Field on Yida Camp for Refugees, Unity State, South Sudan: Dereliction of duty by the
The Yida refugee camp, near the northernmost point in Unity State (South Sudan), has for over four years been the home of tens of...
Rick Gladstone, The New York Times
- Apr 7, 2016
Amnesty International: Executions Highest in 25 Years,
Despite a growing repudiation of the death penalty by governments around the world, at least 1,634 people were executed last year, the...
Dionne Searcey, The New York Times
- Apr 7, 2016
How Boko Haram Trains Abducted Women and Girls to Be Suicide Bombers
MINAWAO REFUGEE CAMP, Cameroon — Hold the bomb under your armpit to keep it steady, the women and girls were taught. Sever your enemy’s...
Steven Erlanger, The New York Times
- Apr 7, 2016
Blaming Policy, Not Islam, for Belgium’s Radicalized Youth
BRUSSELS — Yves Goldstein makes no excuses for Belgium’s failure to find Salah Abdeslam and the other Islamic State recruits who attacked...
Kevin Sieff, The New York Times
- Apr 3, 2016
Boko Haram Victims: They were freed from rape camps. But their nightmare isn’t over.
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria — For months, they were kept in tiny thatched huts in the middle of the forest, waiting with dread each evening for...