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  • Why are hospitals targeted in Syria? ‘People lose hope’

    Center for Strategic and International Studies made the film, and it was directed by a former “NewsHour” foreign

  • The curious case of North Korea in Cambodia

    Pyongyang regime’s money-spinners: Restaurants dotted throughout the world with profits used to raise foreign That same month, a proposed visit by DPRK foreign minister Ri Yong Ho was rejected by the Cambodian government “Foreign intelligence and diplomats have geared many of their problems to sewing up its porous borders “We asked North Korea, a friendly country, to reason with us,” said foreign ministry spokesman Chum Sounry “Cambodian foreign policy comes down to getting the patronage of the highest bidder.

  • World Bank Fuels Land Grabs in Africa Through Shadowy Financial Sector Investments

    "Tens of millions of hectares of land on the African continent have been grabbed by foreign investors uncovered 11 projects backed by IFC clients that have transferred approximately 700,000 hectares of land to foreign When the Nedbank loan was announced, IFC official James Scriven praised the deal. Yet by encouraging foreign investment in land that was deemed "idle" or "empty," these policies have indigenous Anuak and Nuer people were forcibly displaced from the area that was simultaneously offered to foreign

  • Famine in Africa, Mideast is man-made

    recently stunned to learn that the government was considering requiring a $10,000 license for every foreign ROGUE SOLDIERS BLAMED South Sudanese officials say that the government doesn’t have a policy of obstructing “Individual officers might stop a humanitarian convoy and harass humanitarian workers, but that doesn NOBODY’S BLAMELESS In Mayendit, one of two regions officially experiencing famine, the greatest barrier Aid officials warned again and again that the county was falling apart.

  • ICC Jurisdiction and the Rohingya Crisis in Myanmar

    Over the past four months, Myanmar’s armed forces, officially known as the Tatmadaw, have driven over Foreign Relations Law Section 402, which the United States views as reflecting CIL, provides that a state

  • Starving girl seen symbolizing dire plight of Myanmar’s mistreated Rohingya Muslims amid Suu Kyi’s i

    denied citizenship, freedom of movement and basic rights in Myanmar, a country that largely sees them as foreigners Suu Kyi’s office did not respond to repeated requests for comment. After a Rohingya insurgent group killed nine officers in northern Rakhine state in October — the first

  • In Bangladesh, an unfolding humanitarian crisis

    While United Nations officials and international NGOs cite the urgent need to “scale up,” staff on the They are not officially recognized as refugees, and so the agency tasked with leading the humanitarian Medicine and shelter supplies have been stuck in offices and staff grounded. MTI’s partners had money and shelter for some 4,000 families but are unable to distribute it because official The bureau did not respond to a request for comment and phone calls to their office went unanswered.

  • Myanmar's military holds key to further reform

    This includes providing assistance to the Tatmadaw and offering professional military education to its officers The U.S. had trained hundreds of Indonesian military officers under the IMET and E-IMET programs. The request should also include attendance of Tatmadaw officers and civilian defense officials in wide-ranging with a State National Guard unit and attendance at various training programs in the U.S., Tatmadaw officers Building the capacity of the mid-level officers is, in a way, nurturing the next generation of the Tatmadaw

  • South Sudan leaders blamed for orchestrating deliberate famine

    United Nations officials have reported that South Sudanese soldiers are blocking the roads into regions In effect, the regime is using food blockades as a weapon of war, at a time when 100,000 people are officially obstacles for relief agencies, demanding an extortionate fee of $10,000 (U.S.) for every work permit for a foreign President Donald Trump is proposing sharp cuts to foreign aid, including UN agencies.

  • Don't Let the US Lift Sanctions Against Sudan!

    government of Sudan had committed genocidal activities, and acknowledged that about 150 government officials Unfortunately, after taking office, President Obama and his entire administration except for Susan Rice Despite the unimaginable pain and suffering the people of Darfur continued to face, in his last week in office lifting sanctions include providing Sudan with full access to international trade, giving Sudan access to foreign

  • Myanmar: Implement Recommendations of Kofi Annan-led Commission

    , the government tried to hide behind the Advisory Commission,” said Matthew Smith, Chief Executive Officer over a month after the government established the Commission, Rohingya militants murdered nine police officers The Office of the U.N. The Myanmar military and Suu Kyi’s offices have routinely denied allegations of serious human rights “Some officials are looking to sweep Rakhine under the rug.

  • Book Review: Tales from the Gulag

    envied only those we knew, with whom we had come into this world, if they had managed to get work in the office was a geological engineer, so he was taken on to work as a prospecting geologist, presumably in the office He would pay for his office job with our blood, my blood.

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