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Month: July 2016

25 July 2016 by AFP
France calls for immediate humanitarian truce in Syria's Aleppo France on Monday called for an immediate humanitarian truce in Aleppo after four hospitals were bombed in the besieged Syrian city and civilians were killed by barrel bomb attacks. French Ambassador Francois Delattre compared Alep [...]
25 July 2016 by AFP
Arab summit cut to single day as heavyweights absent A 22-nation Arab summit to tackle the region's various crises was cut back to a single day of talks Monday due to the absence of heavyweights Egypt and Saudi Arabia. Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi stayed at home because o [...]
25 July 2016 by François Sergent
Week in Review: AU Silence on the ICC, and Debate on International Tribunals The transitional justice week was marked by the African Union (AU) summit in Kigali, which had been expected to confirm the war between the continent and the International Criminal Court (ICC). But, as our correspondent Emmanuel S [...]
24 July 2016 by AFP
Damascus rocketed after air raids hit Aleppo hospitals Rebel rocket fire hit central Damascus late Sunday after air raids struck four makeshift hospitals in Syria's battered city of Aleppo, jeopardising medical care for more than 200,000 desperate civilians. The Syrian Observatory for [...]
24 July 2016 by AFP
Kabul in mourning after deadliest attack in 15 years Kabul was plunged into mourning Sunday after its deadliest attack for 15 years killed 80 people and left hundreds maimed, reigniting concern that the Islamic State group was seeking to expand its foothold in Afghanistan. Tempers w [...]
24 July 2016 by AFP
Air raids hit four hospitals in Syria's Aleppo Air raids have hit four makeshift hospitals in Syria's battered Aleppo city, doctors said Sunday, jeopardising medical care for more than 200,000 desperate civilians in rebel-held areas. The bombardment since Saturday has worsened [...]
23 July 2016 by AFP
80 dead as IS claims twin blasts during Kabul protest Islamic State jihadists claimed responsibility for twin explosions Saturday that ripped through crowds of Shiite Hazaras in Kabul, killing at least 80 people and wounding 231 others in the deadliest attack in the Afghan capital si [...]
23 July 2016 by AFP
Ailing ex-president Fujimori seeks pardon in Peru Disgraced Peruvian ex-president Alberto Fujimori, serving a 25-year prison term for corruption and crimes against humanity, has requested a pardon due to ill health. The 77-year-old has been in and out of the hospital in recent mo [...]
23 July 2016 by AFP
Top Arab diplomats vow to defeat 'terror' Arab foreign ministers vowed on Saturday to "defeat terrorism", as they gathered for a regional summit just over a week after a jihadist-claimed truck attack in the French Riviera left 84 people dead. In a statement, they also cal [...]
22 July 2016 by AFP
Karadzic appeals 40-year genocide sentence Wartime Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic on Friday lodged an appeal against his genocide conviction and 40-year jail sentence, accusing UN judges of "subjecting him to a political trial". Prosecutors at the UN war crimes tribu [...]
22 July 2016 by AFP
Poland says WWII massacre by Ukraine was 'genocide' Poland's right-wing dominated parliament on Friday recognised as "genocide" a massacre of 100,000 Poles by Ukrainian nationalists seven decades ago, in a move that quickly drew criticism from Kiev. "The victims of the crime commit [...]
22 July 2016 by AFP
Karadzic appeals 40-year genocide sentence Wartime Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic on Friday lodged an appeal against his 40-year jail sentence for genocide, accusing UN judges of "subjecting him to a political trial". Warcrimes prosecutors also appealed the sentence, [...]
22 July 2016 by AFP
Bodies of 14 executed in Libya's Benghazi found: medic A hospital in Libya's second city Benghazi said Friday it had received the bodies of 14 people killed execution-style, in what the UN envoy said was a "war crime". The unidentified bodies were found Thursday and brought to the Ben [...]
22 July 2016 by Dr Luke Moffett Director of the Human Rights Centre Queen's University Belfast
Reparations for victimised perpetrators  Reparations are often touted as victim focused measures of redressing transitional justice and human rights. However, identifying which victims are eligible for reparations goes to heart of debates about the legitimacy of the vio [...]
21 July 2016 by Human Rights Watch
World Bank: Human Rights All But Absent in New Policy (Washington, DC, July 21, 2016) – The World Bank has refused to acknowledge its human rights obligations in its new policy framework, Human Rights Watch said today. The bank’s third, and most likely final, draft of its new environ [...]
21 July 2016 by AFP
Indonesia rejects people's court ruling on 1960s killings Jakarta rejected Thursday the findings of an international panel of judges that declared Indonesia had committed crimes against humanity in anti-communist killings during the 1960s in which it claimed the US, Britain and Australia [...]
21 July 2016 by Human Rights Watch
Rwanda: Locking Up the Poor (Nairobi, July 21, 2016) – Rwandan authorities are rounding up poor people and arbitrarily detaining them in “transit centers” across the country, Human Rights Watch said today. The conditions in these centers are harsh and inhuma [...]
21 July 2016 by AFP
China slams US Republicans for 'groundless accusations' China on Thursday warned the Donald Trump-fronted US Republican Party against making "groundless accusations" after it accused Beijing of cultural genocide and said its economy was based on piracy. The GOP said in its 2016 platfor [...]
20 July 2016 by AFP
US pledges openness on civilian casualties in Syria Defense Secretary Ashton Carter on Wednesday pledged openness on allied accountability a day after dozens of civilians were killed in raids near an IS-held town in Syria. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Tuesday that c [...]