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  • Angola: Police Beat, Set Dogs on Peaceful Protesters

    A protest organizer, Luaty Beirao, said he saw about a dozen police officers when he arrived and another group of officers soon emerged with a Rottweiler and two German shepherd dogs on leashes. Another activist, Samussuku Chiconda, said police officers beat him with batons and then dragged him “I went to ask the officers why they were stopping us from getting to the square,” Chiconda said.

  • UN: 17 new mass graves found in central DRC

    Zeid said in a statement published by his office on Wednesday that he had reports DRC soldiers had dug

  • Asylum Seekers Forced Back to Serbia

    Nine said the officers kicked and punched them, and all said that the officers took personal items, including In three other cases, asylum seekers told Human Rights Watch that law enforcement officials introduced Ahmed said that Croatian officials searched them and took their mobile phones. “They [officials] beat me with a baton on my head and legs. The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Refugees’ current guidance is that Serbia should not be considered

  • Myanmar whitewashes ethnic cleansing

    Credit: Council on Foreign Relations An official report into last year's violence in Rakhine State, launched on April 29 at the government's foreign donor financed Myanmar Peace Center, is intellectually, ideologically inter-agency coordination among the army, intelligence, civil administration, immigration, attorney general's office and Rakhine chief/prime minister's office. Commission report offers a hint of things to come out of Thein Sein's Myanmar Peace Center, into which foreign

  • Rohingya Myanmar: Nobel winners urge action over 'ethnic cleansing'

    On Friday, director general of Myanmar's ministry of foreign affairs, Kyaw Zaya, told Reuters news agency The head of the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) on the Bangladesh was sparked by an attack on Myanmar border police posts on 9 October, in which nine Myanmar police officers go; if not, we encourage the new Secretary-General to make it one of his first tasks after he takes office Elizabeth Blackburn 2009 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine Emma Bonino Former Italian Foreign

  • Syria: Secret campaign of mass hangings and extermination at Saydnaya Prison

    Syrian population,” said Lynn Maalouf, Deputy Director for Research at Amnesty International’s regional office It involved first-hand interviews with 84 witnesses that included former Saydnaya guards and officials Testimonies from former government officials, guards, judges and detainees helped Amnesty International The officers’ assistants would pull them down and break their necks,” said a former judge who witnessed This was normal for me then,” said “Hamid”, a former military officer arrested in 2011.

  • Fighting Boko Haram in Chad: Beyond Military Measures

    elsewhere in the region – have brought significant diplomatic gains, most recently the appointment of Foreign With the election on 31 January 2017 of the country’s foreign minister, Moussa Faki, as head of the African Unicef, the Lake Region Office for Social Programs (Délégation régionale de l’action sociale au lac) the military arena, Déby was asked by Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan to make use of his good offices and Chad’s initial wait-and-see stance toward Boko Haram engendered mistrust among senior Nigerian officers

  • Myanmar's Malicious Propaganda: framing Rohingyas as "Islamic militants" and launching

    Burmese government and an advisor to the (European) Center for the Study of Extremism in Cambridge, UK

  • A Permanent Lifting of U.S. Sanctions on Khartoum?

    such attacks—and the threat such attacks pose to the permanent lifting of sanctions—no junior or local officer 2017 | OTASH CAMP • Concern for homeless children in South Darfur capital | March 19, 2017 | NYALA Officials The official said the homelessness children can be classified into two types, namely completely homeless The mission took place from 19 to 21 February, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian

  • Khartoum (Sudan) and the Peripheries: Where the Money Goes—and Where it Doesn’t Go

    The regime’s Central Bureau of Statistics recently put the official inflation rate at 32.9 percent; but There is virtually no foreign exchange currency (Forex) in the Central Bank of Sudan, which makes many A recent visit to Darfur by European Union officials is all too revealing. SHANGIL TOBAYA Why does none of this figure in the assessment statement made by Dumond and the other EU officials

  • NOBEL LAUREATES CALL ON SECURITY COUNCIL TO AID ROHINGYA

    The head of the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) on the Bangladesh was sparked by an attack on Myanmar border police posts on 9 October, in which nine Myanmar police officers go; if not, we encourage the new Secretary-General to make it one of his first tasks after he takes office in Physiology or Medicine Romano Prodi Former Prime Minister of Italy Emma Bonino Former Italian Foreign

  • NOBEL LAUREATES CALL ON SECURITY COUNCIL TO AID ROHINGYA

    The head of the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) on the Bangladesh was sparked by an attack on Myanmar border police posts on 9 October, in which nine Myanmar police officers go; if not, we encourage the new Secretary-General to make it one of his first tasks after he takes office in Physiology or Medicine Romano Prodi Former Prime Minister of Italy Emma Bonino Former Italian Foreign

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