“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

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

Sporadic confessional violence over the last decades has not translated into a real threat to a long

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

The transitional authorities and their international partners must address crucial issues by implementing over leadership rivalries, financial squabbles and disagreements about strategies to adopt toward the transitional The outstanding issues to be addressed by CAR’s transitional authorities and international partners require To do so, the transitional authorities should reaffirm Muslims’ equal rights, register them to vote, The country’s international partners and transitional authorities focus too much attention on the electoral

thousands of civilians seeking refuge at a U.N. peacekeeping base in the northern city of Bentiu when they ran As if rape were different than death,” says Mary, speaking in a safe house in neighboring Uganda run Neema Rukunghu knows better than anyone else the physical damage wrought by rape. It’s unlikely that she will ever be able to potty-train, or walk, or have a child of her own. It is a center for transformation.

A top Treasury Department official argued against imposing new legislative sanctions on Iran after its Republicans in Congress are still simmering over the nuclear accord with Iran that was completed last European banks have been reluctant to establish lines of credit or finance investment in Iran due to concerns about the lack of transparency in the Iranian financial system and a fear of renewed U.S. sanctions be no restoration of the “U-turn’’ authorization, ­where transactions priced in U.S. dollars are cleared

About 500,000 Jews live in more than 100 settlements built since Israel’s 1967 occupation of the West The war left more than 2,100 Palestinians dead, the majority civilians, according to the UN.

Serbia later filed a counter-claim over the expulsion of more than 200,000 Serbs from Croatia.

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