Turkish invasion of January 2018, the Kurdish population of Afrin, northwest Syria, has fallen by more than

More than 30,000 Nigerian refugees have arrived in Niger’s Maradi region during the past two months alone as they heard the first gunshots, Habsou and her younger sister Mariama* grabbed their children and ran UNHCR is currently organizing the relocation of some of the refugees to “villages of opportunity”, more than

It is nothing less than that,” Sfard said. “It is all about population transfer to the southern tip of the Gaza Strip in preparation for deportation Plans for the construction of camps called “humanitarian transit areas”, to house Palestinians inside plans for the ethnic cleansing of Gaza, Goldberg said, and the creation of “a concentration camp or a transit

KYIV -- The UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine has documented more than 500 cases of ill-treatment In one, which occurred on February 26, a mother learned that her two sons had been transferred to a detention Updating the civilian death toll, Frazer said 3,332 civilians have been killed while more than 7,000

Some scholars have proposed the term feminicide, rather than femicide, to underline the role of state to dedicate resources to combatting feminicide, and structural problems in the judicial system also translate For Moran, raising awareness is an important first step in the broader ideological and cultural transformation Despite the controversy surrounding the truce—namely the government’s lack of transparency in secretive Similarly, hate crimes against trans people and other members of the LGBTQI+ community is also a pressing

‘COME AND TRANSMIT YOUR DISEASE’ The genocide began on the night of April 6, 1994, when a plane carrying frequenting sex workers who were infected,” said Nsanzimana, who co-wrote a research paper on HIV/AIDS transmission “The militia leaders would order those they knew were infected and say ‘Come and transmit your disease HEALTHCARE DECIMATED Transmission of the virus spread with millions of people fleeing for refuge in and “They also provide transportation costs for them to get to the clinics to get their medication,” said

Chinese President Xi Jinping (R) attends a meeting with Vietnamese President Tran Dai Quang (not pictured REUTERS/Luong Thai Linh/Pool Chinese President Xi Jinping (R) attends a meeting with Vietnamese President Tran More than 600,000 members of the Rohingya Muslim group have fled from Buddhist-majority Myanmar’s Rakhine

. © AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha The Nepali government’s bill to amend its current transitional justice Successive Nepali governments have stalled the transitional justice process since 2015 , when Nepal’s of Investigation on Enforced Disappeared Persons , which were set up under the current transitional “It is essential that parliament amend the transitional justice bill to conform with Nepal’s own legal “A sound transitional justice law is needed to end the impunity of perpetrators, and to reduce the risk

As a matter of fact, the entire transition was transformed into an exercise in fielding the neoliberals Yet, nobody was willing to call for ending the faltering transition and convening elections. Nonetheless, if the transition is not fixed, the humanitarian crisis will persist for years to come. To be sure, this is a war that was triggered by a derailed political transition. to restore the transition to its path.

Translation of Ten Stages of Genocide into Punjabi   Source article in English by Dr. Gregory H. Stanton translated by Jaspreet Singh   The Golden Temple, or Harmandir Sahib, Amritsar photo© Tigerbarb

In Iran, the obstacles to success are daunting. Eastern countries are ruled by secular autocrats focused on repressing primarily Islamist opposition, Iran And yet, against this inauspicious backdrop, Iran’s mushrooming anti-government protests—although so The few journalists remaining in Iran rightfully worry about their personal safety. Iran’s security forces thrive when there is insecurity.

perpetrators shows a lack of will to deliver justice, ensuring that this commission will fare no better than Muslim communities on a variety of pretexts, in some cases to convert the sites into Buddhist temples or transfer