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- 35 Girls Killed in Guatemala Fire May Have Been Locked In
Mayra Veliz, general secretary of the attorney general’s office, said a team of 16 prosecutors would Officials began to transfer other children and adolescents who lived in the home to other facilities. Speaking to a congressional panel on Thursday, police officials and fire officials blamed each other Officials have cited troubles at the home since 2013. from the human rights prosecutor’s office believed that the girls had been locked in as punishment for
- Thai court issues verdict in Rohingya mass graves case
Thai police officials, bureaucrats and Myanmar nationals are among the defendants. Thai officials initiated the case in 2015 after the discovery of more than 30 bodies at an abandoned They are not officially recognized by the government as an ethnic minority group, and for decades the
- ‘The Villages are Burning Down.’ Fear and Fire Send Rohingya Fleeing to Bangladesh
The next day the government officially dubbed the ARSA “extremist Bengali terrorists” and published warnings After an outcry, the official name was changed to “ARSA extremist terrorists." been admitted to hospital in Bangladesh with gunshot wounds and burns, with some dying, said a U.N. official
- DePaul’s M. Cherif Bassiouni, global ‘champion of justice,’ dead at 79
For two years, he spent two weeks out of each month at a U.N. field office in Geneva and a week conducting
- Burundi: Measures being used to ‘criminalize’ work of human rights defenders, warn UN experts
Also worrying, according to a news release issued by the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human NGOs) to obtain authorization from the Minister of the Interior for any activity and that the work of foreign
- Brazen Killing of Myanmar Lawyer Came After He Sparred With Military
daylight in a public place that is among the country’s most secure and that regularly hosts national and foreign democratic elections, it left in place a Constitution that barred anyone with a spouse or child with foreign Richard Horsey, a political analyst and former United Nations official in Yangon, called the move a legal The office of Myanmar’s president, U Htin Kyaw, said in a statement on Monday that the attack had been Aung San Suu Kyi, later said that the statement by the president’s office had been made on her behalf
- Killings spark fear, rumours in Rohingya refugee camps
Bangladesh has only allowed about 33,000 Rohingya to register as official refugees; they live in two Afruezul Haque Tutal, a senior police officer in Cox’s Bazar, blamed the violence on turmoil within the
- The UN’s WHO Knows Cholera Vaccines Have Been Used Effectively: Why Not in Sudan?
Working through offices in more than 150 countries, WHO staff work side by side with governments and
- Myanmar rejects allegations of human rights abuses against Rohingya
A Myanmar border guard police officer stands guard in Tin May village, Buthidaung township, northern
- U.S. caused troubles in Middle East region, Sudan’s Bashir tells Putin
Also, American and Sudanese officials agreed to resume talks on the remaining sanctions.
- More Violence in Darfur, More Ceasefires Breached
A UN officer working in Geneina, however, claims authorities used stolen livestock as a pretext to target State Department officials then announced in January relief from U.S. sanctions that would become permanent intensified its daily patrols in and around Nertiti following the reports of violence, UNAMID Media Relations Officer Khartoum effectively blocksjournalists, both local and foreign, from covering the conflicts in Darfur
- Yugoslavia Tribunal Leaves Rich Legacy, but ‘Immense’ Challenges Remain
“The office felt a bit like the Wild West,” said Michelle Jarvis, a deputy to the chief prosecutor, who











