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Trending UN News: Week Ending Nov. 18

Damilola Banjo
• November 18, 2022

It’s a sad one this week as two girls were beheaded in a camp in Syria. You are reading This Week @UN, summarizing the most pressing issues before the organization. The information is gathered from UN press briefings, PassBlue reporting …

Categories: Africa, Climate Change, General Assembly, Secretary-General, Security Council, This Week @UN, UN Peacekeeping

Khmer Rouge Practiced Widespread Sexual Attacks on Minorities

Clothilde Le Coz
• June 11, 2014

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — Until now, sexual violence against ethnic minorities during the Khmer Rouge era in this country went largely ignored. Now for the first time, the Cambodian Defenders Project, one of the oldest legal aid organizations here, has …

Categories: Asia, Gender Violence, International Justice, Women

Defending the International Criminal Court From the Outside

Dulcie Leimbach
• April 30, 2012

The International Criminal Court‘s judgment against the warlord Thomas Lubanga for conscripting child soldiers in the Democratic Republic of Congo has confirmed that “a permanent international criminal court is on the job,” Stephen Rapp, ambassador at large for the US …