Around 150 media outlets have been closed and more than 100 journalists are currently in prison. ____

Less than six years ago, the United States and Canada were among the many nations celebrating South Sudan forced to drop its food aid from airplanes flying above the malnourished regions, at a far higher cost than “It is the result of leaders more interested in political power and personal gain than in stopping violence

direct focus of the Holocaust, but they were exterminated at rates higher that most, and treated worse than The Nazis believed that inferior races produced more children than “Aryans,” meaning that any community asserts that the death rate of homosexuals may have been as high as 60% — one and a half times higher than

Mason Dunn of the Massachusetts Transgender Political Coalition spoke at a February rally to support transgender students. Of that total, about one-third were directed at members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender Levin said transgender people appear to be particularly vulnerable. The Trump administration in February revoked federal protections for transgender students, scrapping

Turkey and seeks autonomy, has been engaging the Turkish military in a low intensity conflict, for more than three decades, resulting in the death of more than 40,000 people. __________________________________

authorities should abandon their decision to close the Dadaab refugee camp and publicly declare that the more than Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International research in Dadaab and interviews with more than 100 Somali More than 260,000 people have been displaced by the drought within Somalia since November, adding to According to a UN monitoring network, forced evictions increased in late 2016, with more than 60,000

Rising tensions In theory, the refugees could be an asset rather than a burden to the host communities

international trade, giving Sudan access to foreign investment and to freely conduct international transactions

When Myanmar transitioned from military rule to civilian democracy, many hoped the new government would

UN humanitarian chief Stephen O'Brien said that more than 20 million people faced the threat of starvation "Now, more than 20 million people across four countries face starvation and famine. Four-year-olds not bigger than infants. It was already known the Islamist group had killed 15,000 and pushed more than two million from their

Russia and Iran, the government’s closest allies, must press for an end to these murderous detention University of Goldsmiths to create a virtual 3D reconstruction of Saydnaya prison, estimated that more than Those whose names are called out were told they would be transferred to civilian prisons in Syria. They are then transported to another prison building on the grounds of Saydnaya, where they are hanged They evoke a world carefully designed to humiliate, degrade, sicken, starve and ultimately kill those trapped

More than 75,000 Myanmar Rohingyas have fled to the Bangladesh Border since October, 2016, who is responsible invented its own pretext to launch a large scale “security clearance operations” by setting this up “honey-trap Professionally speaking, Annan spent less than a total of 7 days in his whirlwind trips to Rakhine region