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  • The Civil War in Ethiopia That Never Really Ended

    weeks in Ethiopia for this article, visiting Amhara, Tigray and other areas with limited access to foreign During most of the war, the federal government didn’t allow foreign journalists to enter Tigray. Aderaw, who is in his 50s, had been a police officer and then business owner working in transport and As Laetitia Bader, the deputy Africa director at Human Rights Watch, said earlier this year, “Foreign Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights noted that more than 2,000 civilians had already died

  • Kurdish Council denounces Syrian elections as illegitimate

    which began with the suppression of anti-government protests, has evolved into a complex war involving foreign

  • On Facebook in India hate speech thrives

    colleagues in India that the unit wanted to delete the network’s pages, executives in the New Delhi office Shah’s coverage of Kashmir had been published by the Guardian, Foreign Affairs and Time. During internal discussions with executives in California and elsewhere, the India office argued in effect offices. Clegg and Facebook chief legal officer Jennifer Newstead agreed, staffers said.

  • Lukashenko plays the Poland card and ratchets up tensions with Warsaw

    domestic opposition, especially as the internal political and economic crisis worsens,” Poland’s Deputy Foreign external enemy, just as during Soviet times all domestic problems were blamed on the activities of foreign The EU’s foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, called on Belarusian authorities “to immediately and unconditionally After protests broke out last August, the Polish government invited Tikhanovskaya during her first official

  • UN Rights Body Should Help Tackle Impunity in Sudan

    Reports of expanded recruitment and foreign military support point to a broader conflict.

  • Reworking the Colonial-Era Indian Peril: Myanmar’s State-Directed Persecution of Rohingyas and Other

    the Muslim holy month of Ramadan this year, Myanmar authorities in the central administrative office in the act of transference, this time targeting Rohingyas as caged chickens, potential agents of foreign For a government with provable genocidal intent toward Rohingyas, any entity, foreign or local, that State Depart- ment’s Office of the Legal Adviser who also clerked in the Office of the Prosecutor Aung San Suu Kyi stripped off Freedom of Oxford,” BBC, October 3, 2017, http://www.bbc.co.uk/ news/uk-england-oxfordshire

  • German Election No Time for Complacency on Turkey and Russia

    commentators have welcomed a more sober campaign after the recent heated elections in the US, France, and the UK

  • Why the UN has failed to prevent genocide

    When I was a Foreign Service Officer in the U.S. Foreign Office even say they cannot use the term genocide until a court does. The original memo I wrote in 1996 was intended to educate State Department officers about the genocidal a women’s non-violent resistance movement that forced the murderous dictator Charles Taylor out of office Neither did the State Department Office of the Legal Advisor.

  • Mexico City police evict Indigenous activists

    Paramedics tend to the wounded after a midnight raid on occupied government offices in Mexico City on They celebrated the third anniversary of the taking of the offices last Thursday. Among the injured were a 13-year-old girl who fainted after being kicked in the head by three officers “The officers came all the way up to the doors of the House of the People,” said García. He and the other activists called on the government to expropriate the occupied offices and turn them

  • Zelensky returns Poland’s highest honor amid escalating row over nationalist wartime unit

    of the Polish order and a postal receipt that it was about to be mailed to the Polish presidential office Ukrainian Presidential Office chief Kyrylo Budanov wrote on Telegram that Nawrocki’s decision was “an Four Ukrainian officials, including Budanov, said they would return state honors that Poland had issued

  • UN rights chief seeks sanctions against Sri Lankan generals: AFP

    International Criminal Court investigation into Sri Lanka’s Tamil separatist conflict and sanctions on military officials impunity, and exacerbating victims’ distrust in the system,” she said in the report obtained before its official Rajapaksa was the top defence official when government forces crushed the rebel fighters in a military The UN rights chief said several top police officers involved in high-profile cases had been penalised She also criticised President Rajapaksa for granting a pardon in 2020 to an army officer convicted and

  • Indigenous group sues Bolsonaro for ‘genocide’

    Far-right president has led ‘an explicit, systematic’ anti-Indigenous policy since taking office in 2019 far-right president has led “an explicit, systematic and intentional anti-Indigenous policy” since taking office Official figures released on Friday show deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon reached near-record levels

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