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HRW Reports On Rights Abuses in Blue Nile
Civilians are bearing the brunt of abuses in Sudan’s simmering border conflict in Blue Nile state, Human Rights Watch said today, based on a research trip in April 2012 into Blue Nile. As in neighboring Southern Kordofan, which Human Rights
Rights group slams NATO, others for deaths at sea
BRUSSELS – A top European rights watchdog has blamed NATO, Libyan authorities and smugglers for the deaths at sea of 63 people fleeing the Libyan war in March 2011 — a charge the military alliance is disputing. The Parliamentary Assembly
Rights group: Kenya police executed terror suspect
By TOM ODULAAssociated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) – Armed men pulled two passengers off a bus on the Kenyan coast earlier this month. The body of one man was found two days later with his eyes gorged out, nose chopped
Rights group: Kenya police executed terror suspect
NAIROBI, Kenya — Armed men pulled two passengers off a bus on the Kenyan coast earlier this month. The body of one man was found two days later with his eyes gorged out, nose chopped off and genitals missing, and
Somalia: Roadside bomb in Beledweyn leads to summary executions
Somalia: Roadside bomb in Beledweyn leads to summary executions23 Apr 23, 2012 – 8:25:51 AM
Sudan: Blue Nile Civilians Describe Indiscriminate Bombings, Killings
(Juba) – Civilians are bearing the brunt of abuses in Sudan’s simmering border conflict in Blue Nile state, Human Rights Watch said today, based on a research trip in April 2012 into Blue Nile. As in neighboring Southern Kordofan, which
SRI LANKA: AFAD condemns harassments of disappeared journalist wife Sandya …
Dear friends, We wish to share with you the following statement from the Asian Federation Against Involuntary Disappearances. For inquiries, please contact to Ms. Mary Aileen Bacalso from the Asian Federation Against Involuntary Disappearances, by email (afad@surfshop.net.ph ). Asian Human
The Shame of Child Soldiers
Rwanda’s highly acclaimed programme of rehabilitating and reintegrating ex-child soldiers has won the ultimate accolade – it is being used as the blueprint for an ambitious and high profile United Nations Security Council campaign of naming and shaming groups that
Rights group: Kenya police executed terror suspect
By TOM ODULAAssociated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) – Armed men pulled two passengers off a bus on the Kenyan coast earlier this month. The body of one man was found two days later with his eyes gorged out, nose chopped
Photos courtesy BBC World Service/Sudanese refugee camps
Photos courtesy BBC World Service/Sudanese refugee camps Sudan (MNN) ― Sudan’s Khartoum government says the country is officially in a state of war with South Sudan. The top United Nations human rights official confirmed that statement by condemning Sudan’s indiscriminate
