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  • South Sudan: Rape Survivors Left Without help

    on September 22, 2022 Women wait at a food distribution site in a United Nations camp outside Juba, South drastically cut funding for emergency medical and psychosocial care for victims of sexual violence in South Sudan, said the United Nations Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan after recent missions to Western “It is difficult to comprehend that we are now seeing women in South Sudan who have been gang raped in “It’s not that there is a lot of sexual violence in South Sudan.

  • South Sudan: UN plea for intervention to end ‘escalating violence’

    Helene Sandbu Ryeng Bathi Kuju is playing with his youngest daughter Gol at a nutrition centre in Pibor, South Sudan Facebook The UN mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) together with international partners, have called UNMISS, the African Union mission, regional bloc IGAD, the so-called Troika (United States, United Kingdom ), the European Union, and the body overseeing the peace agreement signed by the warring parties in South They called on South Sudanese leaders “to urgently intervene to stop the fighting and ensure the safety

  • South Sudan no longer has 'famine,' UN says, but 2 million remain near starvation

    The UN warns that South Sudan's crisis is worsening and that removing the label of famine doesn't mean (Paula Bronstein/Getty Images) South Sudan no longer has areas in famine, but almost two million people South Sudan's famine was the first to be formally declared anywhere in the world since 2011's crisis The situation remains critical, according to reports by South Sudan's National Bureau of Statistics and In February, South Sudan declared two counties in Unity State to be in famine.

  • Slow genocide of the Banyamulenge of South Kivu

    In a similar vein, Christian Sita Mampuya, representative of the Congolese community in South Africa, Available at: www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-34413855 (accessed 31 March 2021). Available at: https://www.crisisgroup.org/africa/central-africa/rwanda/stopping-sudansslow-motion-genocide South Africa: Franschhoek. Loons R (1933) Etude sur le territoire des Bafulero, District du Kivu. South African Broadcast Corporation, 3 August. Available at: www.youtube.com/watch?

  • North Korea executes two for watching South Korean movies

    teenagers in North Korea have been killed by firing squad for watching and selling movies from neighbouring South Kim Jong-un views South Korea as an American puppet state, and is sensitive to any of its media crossing North Korean youth caught watching foreign movies face being sent to a disciplinary labour centre, one But anyone caught distributing or selling South Korean movies can face the death penalty, even if they /www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11503103/North-Korea-executes-two-teenagers-firing-squad-watching-South-Korean-movies.html

  • SERAP Seeks Sanctions Against South Africa over Xenophobic Attacks on Nigerians

    Africa. “SERAP is calling on SADC to help South Africa demonstrates its leadership in addressing xenophobia and Africa in the last two years. Ordinary Session in Banjul, The Gambia, in April 2015 condemning xenophobic attacks in South Africa. sanctions against South Africa for its failure to address the root causes of the xenophobic attacks

  • Theresa May 'deeply regrets' UK's colonial anti-gay laws

    But in many socially conservative and religious countries in Africa, where homosexuality is a taboo, South Africa, which rejoined the Commonwealth after the end of white-minority rule in 1994, is one of has one of the most liberal constitutions in the world, which protects gay rights, and was the first African

  • Khartoum Begins New Military Offensive in South Kordofan: A clear violation of terms laid down by Ob

    Liberation Movement/Army-North (SPLA/M-N) today reports that Khartoum has begun a new military offensive in South as Nuba /African), then there should be immediate condemnation from the current Trump administration commercial reasons and because of a desire to have Khartoum serve as a partner in stanching the flow of African Where is the UN, which finds so much time to condemn human rights abuses in South Sudan? Where is the African Union, which has long countenanced genocide in Darfur?

  • Dozens Killed in Violence in Volatile South Sudan County

    recently been killed in violence that includes beheadings and sexual attacks in a volatile county in South Sudan, the United Nations Mission in South Sudan said Monday. attacks on civilians in Leer,” Nicholas Haysom, special representative of the U.N. secretary-general for South South Sudan has been plagued by sporadic violence since it gained independence from Sudan in 2011. After years of battling against Sudan, South Sudan won independence in 2011.

  • UN General Assembly Could Withdraw Putin's Credentials

    The much more pertinent example is South Africa in 1974. In the early 1970s the Assembly consistently declined to accept South Africa’s credentials (see here of any other delegation authorised by the Government of the Republic of South Africa to represent it The legality of the Assembly’s action in relation to South Africa is contested. Jhabvala , for example, asserts that the suspension of South Africa was intra vires , if only because

  • Nepal social media shutdown used to quell protests

    -based South Asia analyst. “So it completely backfired.” in the 2010 Arab Spring , when a series of anti-government protests swept the Middle East and North Africa Nepalis struggle with per capita annual income of less than $1,400, while youth unemployment stands at

  • Hundreds Killed in South Sudan, June-Sept 2021

    NAIROBI, March 1 (Reuters) - At least 440 people were killed in violence between warring parties in the South abuses on members of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement/Army in Opposition (SPLM/A-IO) and the South In its report, the U.N. called on the South Sudanese government to investigate those responsible for

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