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Central African Republic: A Long Road to Justice in the Central African Republic
First ICC Conviction of Seleka Leader Shows Court's Critical Role In November 2013, I went to Bangui and met Michel Djotodia, then the Central African Republic's self-proclaimed interim president. He had taken over the country as the head of a rebel coalition called the Seleka. He received me in a run-down military camp on a hill overlooking the capital, in a darkened office watched over by security cameras and guarded by ragtag soldiers.
Centrafrique: Un long chemin vers la justice
La première condamnation par la CPI d'un ex-chef de la Seleka montre le rôle crucial de cette Cour En novembre 2013, je me suis rendu à Bangui et j'y ai rencontré Michel Djotodia, alors président par intérim autoproclamé de la République centrafricaine. Il avait pris le pouvoir à la tête d'une coalition rebelle appelée la Seleka. Il m'a reçu dans un camp militaire délabré, un groupe de soldats disparate. J'avais la tâche inconfortable de remettre au « président » notre dernier rapport.
Human Rights Are Essential to Australia’s Interests
World politics feels like it is in disarray. Rules intended to regulate the behavior of all countries and institutions seem not to matter. International human rights norms now appear decidedly unfashionable, even in Australia, a country that should be one of the staunchest defenders of global human rights, where I have just spent two weeks meeting with government officials and civil society.
Congo-Kinshasa: Donald Trump a déclaré la paix au pays. Voici la réalité.
New York — En février dernier, le « général » Sultani Makenga s'est adressé à des milliers de recrues de son groupe armé récemment formées dans l'est de la République démocratique du Congo et leur a fait une promesse. « Vous faites désormais partie d'une armée qui s'est soulevée pour libérer le pays et délivrer réellement le peuple », a déclaré Sultani Makenga, le chef militaire du groupe armé M23 soutenu par le Rwanda.
Trump declared peace in Congo. This is the reality
“GENERAL” Sultani Makenga stood before thousands of newly trained armed group recruits in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo in February and offered them a promise. “You are now part of an army that has risen up to liberate the country and to really liberate the people,” declared Makenga, the military leader of the Rwanda-backed M23 armed group.
Congo-Kinshasa: Trump Declared Peace in Congo. This Is the Reality
New York — "General" Sultani Makenga stood before thousands of newly trained armed group recruits in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo in February and offered them a promise. "You are now part of an army that has risen up to liberate the country and to really liberate the people," declared Makenga, the military leader of the Rwanda-backed M23 armed group.
Trump Declared Peace in Congo. This Is the Reality
A major gap in the peace accords is the lack of measures to ensure justice or accountability for past atrocities. Unless those responsible – including commanders like Makenga – face consequences for their horrific crimes in eastern Congo, impunity will continue to fuel abuse.
Trump Declared Peace in Congo. This Is the Reality
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The Barbarity Of War Crimes Have Now Been Normalized
African News By Philippe Bolopion|Human Rights Watch Photos: YouTube Screenshots|Wikimedia Commons For decades, leaders who were responsible for war crimes tended to plead ignorance or insist it was a mistake and their hands were clean. What has changed in the Middle East is the swaggering contempt we have seen from the United States, Israel and Iran as they instead dismiss, mock or flout the international laws protecting civilians.
War crimes are no longer shameful. That should terrify you
For decades, leaders who were responsible for war crimes tended to plead ignorance or insist it was a mistake and their hands were clean. What has changed in the Middle East is the swaggering contempt we have seen from the United States, Israel and Iran as they instead dismiss, mock or flout the international laws protecting civilians. If the international community does not urgently reassert support for those norms, it may be acquiescing to their destruction.
Will Human Rights Survive the Donald Trump Era?
Human rights are never ensured. The freedoms we hold dear were won—piece by piece—after the catastrophes of the 20th century, when governments accepted, however imperfectly, that state power should be constrained by law, institutions, and a shared baseline of human dignity. Today, that architecture is buckling.
Africa Regions - Inter Press Service
« James Alix Michel warns that without real finance and precaution, ocean pledges risk remaining only on paper. » Now that the lights have dimmed in Mombasa and the delegations have gone home, a simple but necessary question remains: did the first Our Ocean Conference on African soil truly move the world from promises to protection?
Investors beware: democracy is receding and it’s bad for business
Request Free Trial Philippe Bolopion is managing director of asset management company Tobam Portfolio performances risk being severely affected as autocracy rises At a glance Last week’s Economist Intelligence Unit Democracy Index for 2024 shows democracy is at a 19-year low Just 6.6 per cent of the world’s population lives in a full democracy, down from 12.5 per cent 10 years ago Autocracy is bad for business.
Rwanda: " La normalisation des relations entre la France et le Rwanda ne devrait pas se faire sur le dos des victimes du M23 "
La normalisation des relations diplomatiques entre la France et le Rwanda, qui a bien progressé depuis deux ans, pourrait bientôt être mise à l'épreuve. Un nouveau rapport du groupe d'experts des Nations unies sur la République démocratique du Congo (RDC) accuse plusieurs officiers rwandais de haut rang d'apporter un soutien au groupe armé M23, qui a commis de nombreuses atrocités dans l'est du Congo.
" La normalisation des relations entre la France et le Rwanda ne devrait pas se faire sur le dos des victimes du M23 "
Barbancourt le rhum des connaisseurs Tribune. La normalisation des relations diplomatiques entre la France et le Rwanda, qui a bien progressé depuis deux ans, pourrait bientôt être mise à l’épreuve. Un nouveau rapport du groupe d’experts des Nations unies sur la République démocratique du Congo (RDC) accuse plusieurs officiers rwandais de haut rang d’apporter un soutien au groupe armé M23, qui a commis de nombreuses atrocités dans l’est du Congo.
Bleeding in Yemen
The Saudi Arabia–led bombing campaign in Yemen is off to a dreadful start, at least when it comes to the civilian toll. During the first week of military operations against Houthi fighters, the Arab coalition’s warplanes struck heavily populated areas in the capital, Sanaa, and other civilian centers. Dozens of civilians, including children, died in the strikes.
Venezuela's infiltration of the UN Human Rights Council
It would be easy to give up on the United Nations Human Rights Council, as the Trump administration has done. Based in Geneva, the council is supposed to be a beacon for the world, a place where victims of human rights violations can look for abusive governments to be held to account. And yet, periodically, news breaks that a country with a particularly atrocious human rights record gained a seat on the UN body.
UK’s twisted logic: Selling arms in name of peace in Yemen
3/24/19, 1:50 AM CET Mueller’s done. What now? More semi-answers to your unanswerable questions: Are Trump’s kids in the clear? Why did this happen on a Friday? 3/23/19, 2:00 AM CET Can Trump survive Mueller? People predict the president will collapse under the stress of the Mueller investigation. But Trump has teetered on the brink before and never succumbed. 3/22/19, 3:16 PM CET Brexit: What happens next? The EU’s two-date extension plan changes the Brexit calculus for Leavers and Remainers.
Turkey Calls Out China’s Repression of Uyghurs
The Chinese government is conducting a mass, systematic campaign of human rights violations against Turkic Muslims in Xinjiang in northwestern China. The Chinese government’s mass internment of an estimated one million Turkic Muslims in its Xinjiang region has faced growing concern from an increasing number of countries around the world.
World Report 2019: Rights Trends in Atrocities as the New Normal
There is no more daunting challenge for the human rights movement than trying to spare civilians from the litany of abuses associated with the raging conflicts of our time, those that are claiming the lives of hundreds of thousands of people and causing millions to flee across international borders. Where there once was outrage and demands for action, complacency has set in. How did it come to this?
Atrocities as the New Normal
Rohingya refugees gather behind a barbed-wire fence in the “no-man’s land” border zone between Myanmar and Bangladesh, April 25, 2018. © 2018 Ye Aung Thu/AFP/Getty Images This month we celebrate the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. To mark the occasion, we have asked Human Rights Watch experts to reflect on some of the key human rights challenges in their area of specialty.
Human Rights Watch: Selv verdens bedste målmand kan ikke redde Ruslands image
Dette er et debatindlæg. Indlægget er udtryk for skribentens holdning. Alle holdninger, som kan udtrykkes inden for straffelovens og presseetikkens rammer, er velkomne, og du kan også sende os din mening her . Der er en grund til, at autokrater vedholdende kæmper for at afholde de største sportsbegivenheder. De opnår omtale og et lag fernis af respektabilitet – to ting, som Rusland desperat er ude efter.
Mohammed Bin Salman Deserves Sanctions, Not the Red Carpet
President Emmanuel Macron could be tempted to roll out the red carpet for Mohammed Bin Salman, who is making his first official visit to France. And not only because the Saudi Crown Prince arrives with his checkbook, and lucrative contracts in the bargain. Affinity is also generational. Saudi-led coalition aircraft struck three apartment buildings in Sanaa on August 25, 2017, killing at least 16 civilians, including seven children, and wounding another 17, including eight children.
L'Arabie saoudite de Mohammed Ben Salmane mérite des sanctions, pas le tapis rouge
Malheureusement pour le jeune prince, il est des violations que même les meilleures agences de communication du monde ne peuvent occulter. En tant que ministre de la défense de son pays depuis 2015, MBS, comme on le surnomme, joue un rôle central dans cette guerre qui a tué plus de 6100 civils et en a blessé 9683, la plupart dans les frappes aériennes de la coalition saoudienne qui ont semé la mort et la destruction sur des marchés, des hôpitaux, des mosquées et des écoles.
Las atrocidades en Siria ensombrecen el Mundial de Fútbol de Rusia
Existe un motivo por el cual los autócratas se empeñan agresivamente en ser anfitriones de macro eventos deportivos. Estos acontecimientos ofrecen publicidad y una apariencia de respetabilidad, dos cosas que Rusia busca imperiosamente. En menos de cien días, Rusia será sede del Mundial de Fútbol de la FIFA, el macro evento deportivo con mayor cantidad de espectadores del mundo.
Syria Atrocities Loom Large Over Russia’s World Cup
Russian President Vladimir Putin wants this year’s World Cup to be one of “friendship and fair play,” but some crimes are simply too great to ignore. The Russian-Syrian military alliance’s latest abuses have taken place in Eastern Ghouta , a neighborhood of Damascus subjected to indiscriminate attacks and under one of the longest running military sieges in recent history.
Syria Atrocities Loom Large Over Russia’s World Cup
Russian President Vladimir Putin wants this year’s World Cup to be one of “friendship and fair play,” but some crimes are simply too great to ignore. The Russian-Syrian military alliance’s latest abuses have taken place in Eastern Ghouta , a neighborhood of Damascus subjected to indiscriminate attacks and under one of the longest running military sieges in recent history.
Syria Atrocities Loom Large Over Russia’s World Cup
Russian President Vladimir Putin wants this year’s World Cup to be one of “friendship and fair play,” but some crimes are simply too great to ignore. The Russian-Syrian military alliance’s latest abuses have taken place in Eastern Ghouta , a neighborhood of Damascus subjected to indiscriminate attacks and under one of the longest running military sieges in recent history.
Piłkarskie mistrzostwa hańby?
Ostatnie ekscesy rosyjsko-syryjskiego sojuszu wojskowego miały miejsce we Wschodniej Ghucie, w pobliżu Damaszku. W ramach jednego z najdłuższych oblężeń we współczesnej historii, doszło tam do zmasowanych ataków. Putin nie powinien tracić czasu i powstrzymać swojego syryjskiego sojusznika, zmuszając go do zaprzestania zabijania cywilów. Ludzie we Wschodniej Ghucie pilnie potrzebują dostępu do pomocy i opieki medycznej.
Are you ready for the World Cup of shame?
There is a reason why autocrats aggressively seek to host mega sporting events. They offer publicity and a veneer of respectability — two things Russia is desperately in the market for. In less than a hundred days, Russia will host the FIFA World Cup, the most watched sporting event in the world. But as hundreds of thousands of supporters descend on Russian cities and hundreds of millions tune in on television, a major shadow risks hanging over the event.
Are you ready for the World Cup of shame?
NEW YORK — There is a reason why autocrats aggressively seek to host mega sporting events. They offer publicity and a veneer of respectability — two things Russia is desperately in the market for. In less than a hundred days, Russia will host the FIFA World Cup, the most watched sporting event in the world. But as thousands of supporters descend on Russian cities and hundreds of thousands more tune in on television, a major shadow risks hanging over the event.
How Long Will UN Security Council be Missing in Action on Burma?
Two months into one of the most vicious ethnic cleansing campaigns in recent history, the United Nations Security Council is still missing in action. For all its pledges to protect civilians, engage in preventive diplomacy, and never again allow mass atrocities to take place without a rapid response, the council has been a passive bystander while hundreds of villages in Burma were burned to ashes, thousands killed, and more than half a million ethnic Rohingya Muslims fled for their lives.
Will Macron Have Courage to End Arms Sales to Saudis?
President Emmanuel Macron’s diplomatic vision presented to his ambassadors this summer does honor to France.
Burma: Ensure Aid Reaches Rohingya
Rohingya refugees go about their day outside their temporary shelters along a road in Kutupalong, Bangladesh, September 9, 2017. © 2017 Danish Siddiqui/Reuters (New York) – The United Nations, other multilateral organizations, and countries with influence should press the Burmese government to urgently allow humanitarian aid to reach ethnic Rohingya Muslims at risk in Burma’s Rakhine State.
EU risks complicity in crimes against Rohingya
SITTWE, Burma — Burma is spiralling into violence once again, and as the former military dictatorship engages in another wave of mass atrocities, the European Union has become suddenly shy at the diplomatic wheel. Unless it takes action, the bloc’s hands-off approach risks rolling back hard-won progress and fostering extremist violence. Rakhine State, on the western coast along the Bangladesh border, is the crisis’ ground zero.
UN Security Council: Both Asian Candidates Poor on Rights
(New York) – United Nations member countries voting in elections for the UN Security Council on June 28, 2016, should scrutinize the human rights records of both candidates from the Asia group, Human Rights Watch said today. Thailand and Kazakhstan are competing for one open seat for Asia on the Security Council, the 15-member body that bears primary responsibility for the maintenance of international peace and security within the UN system.
Yémen : Imposer un embargo sur les armes à destination de l'Arabie saoudite
Des organisations non gouvernementales et les Nations Unies ont enquêté et signalé de nombreuses frappes aériennes illégales menées par la coalition.
UN: Ensure Integrity of Children’s ‘List of Shame’
(New York) – United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon should apply consistent standards when deciding which countries and armed groups to list in his annual report on grave violations against children in conflict, Human Rights Watch said today. The report to the Security Council, expected in mid-June 2015, lists parties to armed conflicts that have committed serious violations of international humanitarian law against children.
Bleeding in Yemen | Human Rights Watch
The Saudi Arabia–led bombing campaign in Yemen is off to a dreadful start, at least when it comes to the civilian toll. During the first week of military operations against Houthi fighters, the Arab coalition’s warplanes struck heavily populated areas in the capital, Sanaa, and other civilian centers. Dozens of civilians, including children, died in the strikes.
The Looming Humanitarian Crisis
The Saudi Arabia–led bombing campaign in Yemen is off to a dreadful start, at least when it comes to the civilian toll. During the first week of military operations against Houthi fighters, the Arab coalition’s warplanes struck heavily populated areas in the capital, Sanaa, and other civilian centers. Dozens of civilians, including children, died in the strikes.
Saudi Coalition/US: Curb Civilian Harm in Yemen
(Washington, DC) – Saudi Arabia, other coalition members, and the United States should ensure that coalition forces take necessary steps to minimize harm to civilians during military operations in Yemen, Human Rights Watch said today, releasing letters to King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Sa`ud of Saudi Arabia and US Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter.
Dispatches: Barrel Bombs Are No Laughing Matter, President Assad
It speaks volumes when the leader of a country feels emboldened to respond with humor when asked on television about a deadly weapon that is responsible for the deaths and maiming of thousands of his citizens. In a BBC interview broadcasted today, a confident Syrian President Bashar Assad was asked about the use by his forces of barrel bombs, oil drums filled with high explosives and metal fragments that are dropped from helicopters hovering at high altitudes to avoid anti-aircraft fire.
In Sudan’s Blue Nile, a sequel to the violence and abuses in Darfur
MABAN COUNTY, South Sudan — Asir, a 49 year-old farmer from Blue Nile in Sudan, had just completed a grueling eight-day trip, walking through tall grass, mud and rain, often at night, leading a group of men, women and children to safety in a sprawling refugee camp in neighboring South Sudan. He had only the clothes on his back. While the vast majority of Blue Nile residents had previously fled to refugee camps, many thousands stayed behind in government-controlled territory.
Sudan: Soldiers, Militias Killing, Raping Civilians
(Nairobi) – Sudanese government forces and allied militias are unlawfully killing and otherwise abusing civilians in government-held areas in Sudan’s Blue Nile state. Dozens of civilians who fled the government held areas and sought refuge in South Sudan described killings, rapes, and beatings to Human Rights Watch.
Dispatches: On the Ground in South Sudan
A look at human rights in the news today
Dispatches: Averting Another Disaster in South Sudan
In Juba, South Sudan’s hot and dusty capital city, humanitarian organizations are bracing for the worst. With the end of the rainy season and roads drying up fast, fighting has already resumed between government forces loyal to President Salva Kiir and forces loyal to opposition leader, Riek Machar. Both sides have had plenty of time to regroup, rearm, and prepare for the next round.
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