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  • Syria: Women Barred from Defense, Security Colleges

    By Human Rights Watch October 16, 2026 Raises Concerns Over Women’s Role in Syria’s Transition Officials “Women can’t train as officers, and they can’t even study to be the army’s lawyers or administrators. CEDAW guarantees women equal access to education (article 10), the right to hold public office and perform Senior Syrian officials have publicly questioned or openly disparaged women’s place in public office. “Women are underrepresented in parliament, the police, and some public offices, and are now shut out

  • UN Announces Plan to Address Overdue Elections in Libya

    The top official took up her post eight months ago. “Against the backdrop of persistent foreign involvement, regional changes and growing economic headwinds

  • Will the UN Prevent More Genocide In Sudan?

    Can Prevent Genocide in Sudan Foreign Policy October 25, 2024 A peacekeeping mission might not be politically collection of paramilitaries, mercenaries, and allied militias, and the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF), Sudan’s official Peacekeeping   View Comments (2)   Copyright 2024 Foreign Policy

  • Fading Sri Lankan Hopes for Justice Rest on U.N. Rights Council

    Rajapaksa, a former army officer, served as the defense minister. In opening remarks to the Human Rights Council on Tuesday, Sri Lanka’s foreign minister, Dinesh Gunawardena human rights watchdogs say that Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who stacked his government with former military officers obstructed investigations into past crimes and called those efforts “political victimization” of security officers Activists say harassment by security officers has caused the ranks of protesters to dwindle, though many

  • CAR: Amnesty investigation reveals full horror of conflict and election violence

    Central African armed forces, supported by foreign troops in the presence of MINUSCA, clashed with the All parties to the conflict, including Central African forces, foreign forces, and armed groups, must people in the area decided to protest the killing by carrying his body in front of the Prime minister’s office

  • Turkish Warplanes Strike Iraq Resort, Killing 8, injuring 23

    Wednesday, killing at least eight people and injuring more than 23, according to government and hospital officials Turkey’s foreign ministry suggested that the attack had been carried out by the P.K.K. Turkish officials typically invoke Article 51 of the United Nations Charter, which recognizes a state that are not based on any legal basis or agreement between the two countries,” Ahmed al-Sahaf, Iraq’s foreign

  • Myanmar Rejects U.N. Findings: ‘No Ethnic Cleansing or Genocide in Our Country’

    By Hannah Beech and Saw Nang Senior Myanmar officials denied on Wednesday that the country’s military Myanmar officials have rejected outright fact-finding reports that were submitted on Monday to the United On Wednesday, U Myint Thu, Myanmar’s permanent secretary for foreign affairs, said that Bangladesh’s United Nations officials were not as sanguine.

  • Genocide Watch issues report on Kurdish Genocides

    A Genocide Watch team working in Kurdistan, the US, the UK, India, and the Netherlands today issued a We also met with officials in the Kurdistan Regional Government, UNITAD (the UN Investigative Team to

  • UN probes into deaths in Pakistani-administered Kashmir

    UN officials expressed alarm over Pakistan’s decision to classify the JAAC as a proscribed “terrorist The escalation resulted in nine deaths – seven civil activists and two law enforcement officers. Divisional Commissioner Waheed Khan told Reuters that protesters had blocked a security convoy and attacked officials “Police and security officials responded in self-defence.” In New Delhi, the Ministry of External Affairs spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said in an official statement

  • Russian Strikes Leave Over 600,000 Without Power

    Meanwhile, French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot said his country would be taking part in Russia-Ukraine

  • Clandestine mass grave found in Mexico with 1,600 baby teeth

    The FGR - Mexico's Attorney General's Office - is still awaiting the results of scientific analyses to Nor is there an official conclusion regarding the biological origin of the remains, the number of deceased The agency specified that forensic studies were still pending and that it had not yet officially verified members of “Buscando Cuerpos en Todo México” held a sit-in for more than 15 days in front of the FGR offices , Juan Carlos, had been detained by an alleged criminal group and was later released by Civil Guard officers

  • Nations ask China to open Xinjiang

    Her office has been negotiating access since September 2018. The law criminalises what China deems secession, terrorism, subversion and collusion with foreign forces

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