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  • What it Means to be an African Migrant Deported From Israel

    The Asylum Line Every morning at 8 o'clock, Israeli immigration officials in Tel Aviv are met by long In the office he was surrounded by officers who peppered him with questions about his status and his After an officer repeatedly told him in Hebrew that he must go, Ghirmay said he was given no chance to

  • REVIEW: The Long Arc of Human Rights: A Case for Optimism

    although the U.S. government, which has not ratified most major international human rights treaties, officially Attorney General Loretta Lynch released official guidance to law enforcement agencies on how to prevent Last December, the UN’s top human rights official, Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein, who had expressed concerns (c) 2018 Foreign Affairs https://www.foreignaffairs.com/reviews/review-essay/2018-04-16/long-arc-human-rights

  • Empathy and Genocide Education in Cambodia: A Personal Reflection

    The Khmer Rouge tribunal from 2006 to 2017 officially limits its temporal jurisdiction to the 1975-79 daughter also grew up only having heard about her parents’ narrative of heroism in the war against foreign lends support to former KR cadres’ self-portrayal as ‘soldiers’ fighting to defend the fatherland from foreign

  • PPT Inaugural Tribunal on Myanmar Atrocity Crimes

    President of the International Association of Genocide Scholars, Dr Helen Jarvis, former Public Affairs Officer On 3 February the UN Office of High Commission for Human Rights (OHCHR) issued a 43-page report of interviews destruction of food and sources of food – speak volumes of the apparent disregard by Tatmadaw and BGP officers serious allegations of crimes against humanity committed by Myanmar Security troops which the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) says the British Armed Forces are training on human rights and accountability

  • Turkey detains 150 soldiers over alleged Gulen links: Anadolu agency

    It said those detained were among 300 military personnel, including 211 serving officers, facing arrest dismissed nearly the same number of civil servants since the putsch attempt, the U.N. human rights office

  • When the Soldiers Meant to Protect You Instead Come to Kill

    In his office in the capital, Simon Compaoré, the president of the ruling party, a former secretary of

  • 'Their goal is to destroy everyone': Uighur camp detainees allege systematic rape

    Shortly after, according to documents leaked to the New York Times, he directed local officials to respond It was unlikely that Xi or other top party officials would have directed or authorised rape or torture

  • HRW REPORT Iraq: Yezidi Fighters Allegedly Execute Civilians

    In July a spokesman from Iraq’s Foreign Affairs Ministry told Human Rights Watch that government representatives Enforced disappearances occur when a person is arrested or detained by government officials or their

  • Genocide is an act of state and demands a response by other states

    Initiation of the action would alone generate reputational risk, thereby causing concern for foreign

  • Letter to Congress from Former Special Envoys for Sudan, Throwing Their Weight Behind Lifting of San

    Charge d’Affaires in Khartoum Jerry Lanier, wrote a brief letter to the Members of the House Foreign suggest that some 60 – 70 civilians were killed or wounded during the vicious SAF rampage; Darfur Union UK The CIA office in Khartoum is the largest office in the Middle East. Khartoum—ER] Over the last seven years, we have together spent considerable time engaging Sudanese officials Minutes of an August 31, 2014 meeting of the regime’s most powerful military and security officials make

  • Despite clash, Richardson says Suu Kyi remains Myanmar's best hope

    Suu Kyi’s office said on Thursday her government had asked Richardson to step down and accused him of the case of two Reuters reporters, who were arrested on Dec. 12 on suspicion of violating Myanmar’s Official Her office said it would not be commenting further on the exchange. and human rights activists of carrying out killings, rapes and arson in Rakhine in a campaign senior officials

  • Trudeau urged to press for Muslim minority rights in Myanmar during Suu Kyi visit

    Rohingya situation during a brief public photo-op with Suu Kyi as the two exchanged pleasantries in his office While Trudeau's office said he did raise the investigation during the meeting, he didn't attach any strings His office said Canada was giving Myanmar an additional $8.8 million in humanitarian assistance to promote Former Conservative foreign affairs minister John Baird travelled to Myanmar in 2012 to present Suu Kyi But in its letter to Trudeau, the Karen community urged the government to reign in its enthusiasm for

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