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  • Report on UNAMID in Darfur by Secretary-General António Guterres: More Misrepresentations than Truth

    Here is important to recall the egregious reporting failures—over more than a decade—of this failing decline in quality and quantity (the statistics cited by Guterres are virtually all from UNAMID and are transparently governments are genuinely committed to combatting conflict-related sexual violence and are willing to translate Darfuri refugees in eastern Chad (see the UN chart, reflecting UNHCR’s figure, in Appendix B)—more than the Tabarat Massacre There have been few examples more revealing of UNAMID impotence and cowardice than

  • Saving the Iran Nuclear Deal, Despite Trump's Decertification

    That Iran has been in compliance with its JCPOA obligations is beyond dispute. ’s military facilities, and that Iran furthers its missile program). between the U.S. and its allies on the one hand, and Iran on the other, remain high. In that spirit, the EU could signal its intent to facilitate financial transactions with Iran by expediting What they should not do is become unwitting accomplices in the White House's all-too transparent effort

  • US official in Sudan to support democratic transition

    Sudanese women journalists, who described climate of fear they faced reporting under Bashir, & before 2020 transition Pulitzer Prize-winning book on genocide landed Saturday in Sudan, aiming to support the country’s fragile transition head of the ruling sovereign council, and Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok, the civilian face of Sudan’s transitional Government’s partnership with Sudan’s transitional leaders and citizens, explore how to expand USAID’ s support for Sudan’s transition to a civilian-led democracy,” USAID said.

  • Iran and Turkey, at war with Syria

    Two traditional foes, Turkey and Iran, have found themselves on the same side of a bitter regional dispute Turkey and Iran directly back opposing factions in Syria's civil war, but have a common interest in backing In response, both Turkey and Iran have defied Saudi Arabia's blockade by sending crucial assistance to Shortly after Saudi Arabia's ban was announced, unlikely ally Iran stepped in to to provide emergency with Iran, one of the reasons that Saudi Arabia initiated the blockade in the first place.

  • Human Rights Council extends mandates on Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Syria, Iran, South S

    financial means for its functioning; and demands that all parties work towards a genuine political transition , including through the establishment of an inclusive transitional governing body with full executive written report during an interactive dialogue at the thirty-ninth and fortieth sessions; and decides to transmit Qatar reiterated the transparent manner in which the text was drafted. crimes, and stood ready to continue to support the country’s democratic transition and its peace and

  • Organising in the face of homophobia and transphobia in Brazil

    of Mathilde Dorcadie) Helping young lesbian, gay, bisexual, transsexual and intersex (LGBTI) people Brazil holds the unenviable record of having the highest number of homophobic and transphobic murders Rede Trans Brasil (the Trans Brazil Network) says 144 transsexuals were murdered in the same year, not “It is at least as important as helping a young gay or transsexual person. This story has been translated from French. (c) Equal Times 2017

  • Joint Appeal to the UN Security Council to Act on Myanmar’s Rohingya Crisis

    Most of Myanmar’s Rohingya population, estimated at more than one million, have been forced to flee to impose an arms embargo against Myanmar’s military that covers the direct and indirect supply, sale or transfer , including transit and trans-shipment of all weapons, munitions, and other military and security equipment , as well as the provision of training and other military and security assistance. United Church of Christ, Justice and Witness Ministries Unitarian Universalist Service Committee Viet Tan

  • U.S. defense chief says Rohingya plight even worse than media portrayals

    Secretary Jim Mattis said on Tuesday that the plight of Rohingya refugees from Myanmar was even worse than More than 688,000 Muslim Rohingya and a few hundred Hindu Rohingya have fled to Bangladesh since Aug. “This is a tragedy that’s worse than anything that CNN or BBC has been able to portray about what has www.reuters.com/article/us-myanmar-rohingya-usa-mattis/u-s-defense-chief-says-rohingya-plight-even-worse-than-media-portrayals-idUSKBN1FC1NF

  • How Iranians Protest: The Green Movement

    By Alžběta Frommerova   Since late December 2025, Iran has experienced widespread protests in response For more than one hundred years , Iranians have repeatedly mobilized in pursuit of democracy, but they ”, framed dissent as a demand for accountability rather than regime overthrow. By the time the Green Movement took shape, Iran’s public sphere was already tightly constrained . At the same time, many Iranians involved in the Green Movement emphasized that Iran’s future must be

  • China’s Forced Organ Harvesting Demands U.S. Response

    China’s transplant sector, unconstrained by rigorous ethical rules, found a more expedient solution. China’s transplant doctors and industry. Also, China’s reported number of annual transplants, 5,000-6,000, appears understated. American institutions are documented to have trained 344 of China’s transplant doctors. The WHO’s organ transplant task force, for example, was proposed in 2017 by Dr.

  • Murders By U.S. White Supremacists More Than Doubled In 2017, New Report Shows

    White supremacists in the United States killed more than twice as many people in 2017 as they did the year before, and were responsible for far more murders than domestic Islamic extremists, helping make The horror of right-wing extremism gained national attention in August, when more than a thousand white year in May, a right-wing extremist named Jeremy Christian allegedly stabbed two men to death aboard a train

  • Rising ceasefire violations between Armenia and Azerbaijan

    In 2022, Iran was Armenia’s fourth-largest source of imports. "Armenia has two open borders, one with Georgia, and the other one with Iran. "If Armenia loses its border with Iran, that would be a catastrophe,” he said. At Armenia’s southernmost tip sits the historic town of Meghri, the gateway to Iran. "But if in 2025, people are still scared of us opening transport links, I think that’s a little absurd

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