…the presidential election, beating Muhammadu Buhari, who ran under the Congress for Progressive Change party. This pronouncement touched off conflict, and within days, Human Rights Watch reckoned, 800 people were…
…Africa’s Rape Victims: Sexual assault victims in South Africa continue to watch as their assailants walk away without punishment. Nyasha Bhobo, writing from Johannesburg, looked at how politics play a…
…watch. A missile hit on any of the buildings might have caused a radioactive catastrophe worse than what had happened in Chernobyl, spreading radiation throughout the region and resulting in…
…director at Human Rights Watch, said of the vote: “While the Council’s failure to adopt the proposal is an abdication of responsibility and a betrayal of Uyghur victims, the extremely…
…Ghana, Ireland, Kenya, Mexico, Norway, United Arab Emirates, United States; four abstained: Brazil, China, Gabon, India.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40XS5EYD9kk • Guterres appointed eight new members to the Central Emergency Response Fund (Cerf)…
…of whom voted under watch by armed Russian soldiers wearing balaclavas. The referendums are considered illegal under international law, a fact that numerous Council members repeatedly pointed out. Ukraine and…
…replied: “You should read Putin more often and carefully. He announced everything on the 24th of February. Read it and you will get it.” — DAWN CLANCY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjysSk7Z8_E Joe Penney…
…economies, Britain’s deeply flawed pandemic response under his watch and his resignation from his government post after being caught on camera kissing a colleague amid social-distancing rules. PassBlue broke the…
…area, adding that “an agreement on a demilitarized perimeter should be secured.” Rafael Grossi, director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, the UN nuclear monitor and watchdog, proposed to the…
…when he was recommended for the post by the United States ambassador at the time, Nikki Haley. Under his leadership, the agency was awarded a Nobel Peace Prize, in 2020….
…Watch and the OSCE Moscow Mechanism.” • < ICYMI: • Pope Francis’ apology to Indigenous people in Canada. • US Ambassador Thomas-Greenfield and Usaid director Samantha Power testify before the…
…out for many months how serious the food crisis around the world is, and this is a large component of that crisis.” (See video above to watch Guterres’s speech in…
…borders and territorial waters.” (Check out Human Rights Watch’s Twitter Space discussion, held after the Council meeting, on the rights group’s investigation into war crimes and human rights abuses by…
…agency’s top official, Grete Faremo. Faremo said she knew nothing of her colleagues’ dubious financial dealings but stepped down, as it happened “on her watch,” she said. Before the Times…
…the presence of Russians,” Lewis Mudge, the Central Africa director for Human Rights Watch, told PassBlue in May. A May 4 article in The Guardian reported on human-rights investigators and…
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