The premises vibrate when trains depart overhead, as if mirroring the shudder the place provokes. They were unloaded from trucks and packed into wooden boxcars made to transport six horses but used for The indifference of a world unready to acknowledge that more than 4 million Syrian refugees absorbed counter-indifference gesture of Milan’s Holocaust memorial were repeated myriad times across a European Union of more than Lebanon’s population is now composed of Syrian refugees; the numbers reaching the E.U. constitute less than

suggest malice on the part of the ICC, and without any reason to believe that it has done more harm than

The Rohingya and other Muslims make up more than 70 percent of the victims of violence, which has displaced more than 140,000 in Rakhine State.

Chairman Smith on the hearing: “More than half of the 635,000 refugees entering Europe this year are America [full text of statement] [truth in testimony form] ____________________________ Hearing transcript

Activists say more than 20 people have been killed in weeks of protest against Nkurunziza's re-election The United Nations said more than 70 000 Burundians had fled to neighboring states in a region with a

It moves these discussions toward an arbitrary bottom line, rather than where they need to be: firmly

“For more than 10 years already, these women have suffered in silence and fear while the perpetrators Human Rights Watch interviewed more than 50 women with the assistance of Advocacy Forum, a Nepali nongovernmental

It points out that alone of all the country’s more than 130 ethnic groups, only Rohingya are subjected

Late-month negotiations between the two sides failed to achieve a settlement on contentious oil and transitional Transitional Federal Govt (TFG), al-Shabaab 15 Nov both claimed victory in clashes in Hawin town, south Petroleum Minister Ali Ahmed Osman 28 Nov announced S Sudan oil exports blocked until transit fee agreed In protest at Palestine’s 31 Oct admission to UNESCO Israel froze transfers of tax and customs revenues Despite signing of power transfer, tens killed in fighting between Saleh’s forces and those loyal to

to try former Rwandan official Michel Bagaragaza for role during 1994 genocide as Rwanda criticised transfer Somalia Transitional parliament met in Somalia for first time in Baidoa 26 February; adjourned session Under proposal, parliament would then recognise junta as de jure transitional government. War crimes suspect Milan Lukic transferred from Argentina to Hague. Russia said will not remove weapons cache stored in Transdniestria region until peace settlement reached

to adjudicate crimes perpetrated at the moment of Bangladesh’s bloody birth threaten division more than opposition); the BNP by reviving its political fortunes through compromise with the ruling party, rather than Rather than building on that cooperation, the two leaders have resorted to non-democratic methods to

the conflict in Somalia, where insurgents backed by Eritrea battle Ethiopian troops that support the Transitional number of steps, including acceptance by the Security Council of the virtual demarcation of the border; transformation international community to provide the carrots and sticks needed to press the parties, including financing for trans-border