I met US State Department officials and some members of Congress to brief them about how press freedoms U.S. government officials and members of Congress are generally well informed about the political situation Washington has vowed to target certain Army and government officials with sanctions, based on the recommendations

as the “cocaine coup” to keep Hernan Siles Zuazo, who was elected president that June, from taking office Siles Zuazo, who had been prevented from taking office in 1980, returned from exile in Peru when the

In 70 years since the adoption of the U.N.’s Genocide Convention, only two genocides have been officially

Soldiers on the council will appoint the two officials.

A senior United Nations official said on Sunday she would raise the issue of persecution of Myanmar’s She said she would brief the UN secretary-general on the situation in Cox’s Bazar and that her office

staggering 87 per cent increase in Afghanistan’s opium production in 2017, as reported by the United Nations Office Even though this was not a formal fatwa, or religious ruling, stunned U.S. and UN officials reported Another rationalisation is that since the Taliban does not officially rule the country, it has neither U.S. officials have hailed it as an effective element of the new U.S. strategy in Afghanistan and South Corrupt government officials and pro-state elite have long participated in the opium economy on a greater

epileptic from Baku, recalls being beaten, tortured with electric shocks, and raped by four police officers But by mid-November, Niko says, he had been victimized four more times by police officers extorting bribes In October, the Tajik Prosecutor-General’s Office announced it had compiled a list of what it said were Azerbaijani Interior Ministry Ramil Usubov justified the crackdown in an official letter to Nils Muiznieks And the abuse at the hands of police continued when he was recognized on the street by patrol officers

The League of Nations appointed France and the UK as joint trustees of Kamerun. But the UK and some developing countries were against it on the grounds that Southern Cameroons would Ahidjo also demanded that West Cameroon cut all links with the UK with the result that it lost several Except for the U.S., Cameroon’s Western partners, such as France, the UK, Germany, Canada and the EU The UK and the UN are historic actors in this process.

Justice for the victims of this most recent attack, likewise, cannot be foregone.

Bangladeshi and Burmese officials negotiated the repatriation deal without the oversight of the U.N. Refugee Agency senior public information officer, told HuffPost.

A refugee from Udaung reported being told by a local administration officer that the new army camp at , “two groups of around 500 men each stormed up from the beach…but were easily driven off by police officers At 11 pm on the night of August 24, one BGP and one Army officer had visited the house of the village administrative officer and demanded that “bad people” sheltering in the village be handed over, but the administrative officer had replied, “Our village is next to your camp, how can those men be here?

intentions grow, and as growing uncertainty over possible U.S. sanctions risk scaring away potential foreign But its restraint could be tested on non-nuclear matters: some of its senior military officials already As senior Iranian officials put it to Crisis Group, Tehran's ultimate decision regarding the JCPOA will