Speaking in Zarma, he used the word “izifuto” to describe the men, a term Nigeriens translate variously election on Dec. 27, and the vote is expected to result in the country’s first peaceful, democratic transfer

reports, Human Rights Watch concluded that military and police forces in North Sinai arrested more than North Sinai is a sparsely populated governorate with fewer than 500,000 inhabitants that borders Israel Fourteen of them remain disappeared more than three years later. marred with equally serious violations, including war crimes, should also be roundly criticized rather than

And no one was more enthusiastic about the boy’s return than Ramzan Kadyrov, the Kremlin-backed president The talks were supposed to cover the transfer of Islamic State fighters and commanders of Chechen origin Less than three months after Kadyrov’s offer, however, Furat, a Russian-language media effort started He does it responsibly, dignified and as transparently as possible. The local Dagestani office of the commission has received more than 240 reports, but even that number

members have been targeted and “killed extra judicially to provide organs for China’s booming organ transplant More than 130 Tibetan monks have self-immolated in protest of persecution at the hands of the Chinese Li) noted that just 70 years ago less than one million Christians lived and worshipped in China. “The number of Communist party members is less than 90 million,” said Fu. “There are more Christians than these atheistic party members, and it’s a political threat, in their

, devastating collection of prose titled Medallions (available in Englishsince 2000 in an excellent translation month, a non-profit group called Reduta Dobrego Imienia (literally “The Good Name’s Redoubt,” usually translated Train stations across Poland have been decorated this March with IPN-sponsored posters commemorating At a state-funded conference on Polish literature in translation held in Kraków last summer and organized (The recent NYRB Classics edition of Madeline Levine’s extraordinary translation includes these passages

The Refugee Law Project (RLP), School of Law, Makerere University, in collaboration with the African Transitional Justice Research Network (ATJRN), is now accepting applications to its 7th Institute for African Transitional policy makers in a multi- and cross-disciplinary space in which to discuss some of the most pressing transitional deliberate focus on situating discussions in a range of African contexts, it seeks to expand the global transitional culturally and historically informed conceptions of justice, and to catalyze the development of African Transitional

accounts for about a third of New Zealand’s dairy exports, almost 60% of forestry products and more than

when pursued through historical study, documentation, evidence, and academic and public debate rather than

ultimately aims to enable them to fight for their rights, achieve justice, and to equally participate in the transformation

process had not resulted in any prosecutions by the time it was effectively closed, with a few cases transferred

the world's biggest democracy to be designated a "country of particular concern", along with China, Iran

populations in Rakhine State, where Burmese security officials were actually arming the Rakhine Buddhists, transporting bit of an emboldening effect, where repressive regimes know that they can get away with a little more than More than several hundred thousand people have been displaced. It is just a huge crisis. The countries speaking out are a little different than usual. We are not seeing significant action from anyone other than Bangladesh on this issue.