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- Indigenous Women Fight to Save Land in Brazil
We’ve seen centuries of violence, spilled blood, rape and enslavement – and now all of this is being officially
- The Holocaust and Motherhood' Conference
Motherhood and the Holocaust Twenty Years On' at The Wiener Library, central London, UK.
- NGO Open Letter to the Holy See on the Visit of Pope Francis to Iraq
leaders from theChristian, Sunni, Shia, and Yazidi communities, and supported by UNITAD and the UN Office
- India's Assam Evictions Heighten Insecurities of Muslims
Officials said the drive, for which hundreds of police and paramilitary soldiers were deployed, was peaceful
- Guarantee security of life before repatriation
vigilantes," says the statement posted by Tun Khin, president of the Burmese Rohingya Organisation, UK northern Rakhine State, said the statement, signed by 15 Rohingya organisations including from the UK
- Myanmar Blacklists a U.N. Rights Investigator as Genocide Accusations Intensify
When she called a government official, she was told there was “some bad news”. Lee’s assessments of rampant human rights abuses in Myanmar—especially her condemnations of official Officials could not be reached to comment on the change of policy. Except on tightly controlled government-led tours, journalists and foreigners have largely been barred
- ECHR confronts Russian anti-evangelism law
Experts say that the amendments to the law primarily hit foreigners. On 14 August 2016, during such a meeting, police officers arrived at Mr. Ossewaarde's home. Then the visitor send a declaration to the prosecutor's office indicating that the clergyman suggested "Foreigners are fined, in the first place, considering that they have the fewest rights to confession "Foreigners are forced to participate in worship services and talk about religion in fear of deportation
- Au Tchad, Idriss Déby seul en scène pour sa réélection
Parmi les officiers, certains ont suggéré de m’écarter un peu pour éviter une escalade suicidaire », opposant ne pèse peut-être pas lourd sur l’échiquier politique, mais, comme en convient une source officielle Des officiers à la loyauté suspecte ont été écartés.
- Returning Rohingya to Myanmar 'alarmingly premature'
Responding to an announcement by the Bangladesh Foreign Ministry today that it intends to repatriate
- South Sudan Is Officially In Famine. This Is What That Means
The first famine in six years has been declared in the world's newest nation, South Sudan. To understand just how dire the situation is, you need to understand the United Nations' reluctance to use the f-word: famine. Famine has a very specific definition. It must meet three criteria before it can be declared: four out of every 10,000 children die each day, one in five families do not have enough food to meet basic human nutrition requirements, and one in three people are acutely malnourished to the point that they are too weak to go to school or work. To put this into context, if famine were declared in the state of Victoria, 400 children would die daily from starvation. And if famine were declared in Australia, 1700 children would die every day. As it stands, 1 million men, women and children are on the brink of starvation in South Sudan. And 4.9 million people -- more than 40 percent of South Sudan's population -- are in need of urgent food, agriculture and nutrition assistance. This figure is likely to rise to 5.5 million at the height of the lean season in July if nothing is done to curb the severity and spread of the food crisis. As is the case with so many emergencies in the developing world, it is girls who suffer most. Plan South Sudan estimates 100,000 girls are currently at immediate risk of harm. Famine can be hard to comprehend unless you've seen it firsthand. It is ghastly. I was on the ground during the response to the last two famines, first in 1991 in Somalia and then during the 2011 East African drought. You see children with skeletal arms and legs, desperately clinging to life. And when they are rescued, they have to be put on drips because they are too weak to feed through their mouths. The doctors are trying to bring them back from the edge of death. I've seen children lose the fight simply because their bodies are so weak. Sometimes, they die from pneumonia because of their compromised immune systems, or they die from diarrhoea because their bodies are too frail to fight the loss of liquid. They are so very vulnerable. It is heartbreaking. As an aid worker living this reality, you wonder why governments did not release enough money or raise enough resources to help in time. You wonder: how did we get in this situation? You feel guilty and the only thing you can do is your best to try and change it. This is why we need people to listen early and respond early. If you go back to Ethiopia in 1984 -- which was the biggest famine in a generation -- there was a very harsh drought compounded by the fact that normal food transfers and trade within the country was blocked by war. That created a perfect storm for people to become isolated from food supplies and end up completely destitute. It was largely invisible to the world until BBC reporters were able to get into the country and expose what was happening. Right now, we are seeing almost exactly the same conditions in South Sudan as we did in the lead up to Ethiopia in '84 and again in Somalia in '91. Here we have the same terrible culmination of conflict and drought, but with the added challenge of climate change. Extreme weather events have spurred along an already tense situation into a deadly one, with ongoing conflict stranding communities in isolated social pockets, restricting their access to aid. Sadly, when a famine is first declared it is hard to garner support because people simply can't picture what's happening. It's only later on when things are completely broken that we start to pay attention. It's only when we start to see images of emaciated children hooked up to drips in white tents being attended by emergency doctors that people can fathom the sheer horror of famine. We need everyone to understand this important fact: now is the time when we can help to protect the most vulnerable in South Sudan from the terrible consequences of disaster. Now is the time when all of us -- governments, INGOs, citizens of Australia -- can step in to save South Sudan's children from a horrific death from starvation. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ (c) The Huffington Post
- Myanmar military jets open fire on Christian Chin villages killing 21 people
receives emergency treatment in hospital, which struggled to cope with the number of wounded A local official
- UNSC must visit Myanmar, too
Recently, the British foreign minister visited both the countries and reiterated Britain's position that










