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28 September 2017 by AFP
African vote throws UN Burundi abuse probe into question The UN rights council voted Thursday to send experts to help authorities in crisis-wracked Burundi to investigate violations, casting doubt on whether an independent international probe would be allowed to continue. The resolution [...]
27 September 2017 by AFP
C. Africa president says genocide talk 'not justified' The president of the Central African Republic pushed back Wednesday against UN warnings of looming genocide in his country, saying the complex crisis could not be reduced to religious and ethnic strife. "We think that to talk abou [...]
26 September 2017 by AFP
Questions and answers on Israeli settlements A Palestinian gunman opened fire at an entrance to the Israeli settlement of Har Adar in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday, killing three security personnel and wounding another. Here are some key questions and answers on Israeli [...]
24 September 2017 by Yi-Li Lee
Women’s Victimization in Transitional Justice and their Fight : The Story of Taiwan Women, even though they were main victims of Taiwan’s authoritarian regime, have been largely absent from the transitional justice mechanisms after Taiwan successfully transformed into a democracy. Following the discussion of wome [...]
21 September 2017 by AFP
Are Myanmar's Rohingya facing genocide or ethnic cleansing? Muslim Rohingya fleeing their homes in Myanmar are facing "ethnic cleansing" but whether they are victims of genocide remains unclear, international justice experts told AFP. About 422,000 refugees from the stateless Muslim minori [...]
21 September 2017 by HRW
Myanmar: Satellite Imagery Shows Mass Destruction (New York) – New analysis of satellite imagery from Burma’s Rakhine State shows the near total destruction of 214 villages, Human Rights Watch said today. World leaders meeting at the United Nations should urgently adopt a General [...]
20 September 2017 by Engy Abdelkader, JD, LL.M.
The persecution of Myanmar’s Rohingya goes back to independence Some 420,000 Rohingya Muslims, a religious and ethnic minority community in Myanmar, have fled to neighboring Bangladesh since August this year. The United Nations has called the Rohingya the world’s most persecuted minority group [...]
19 September 2017 by AFP
French, Rwandan presidents hold rare meeting amid tense diplomatic ties Rwandan President Paul Kagame has met with his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron in New York for rare talks, Kigali said Tuesday, as diplomatic ties remain icy over the 1994 genocide. Kigali has long accused France of complicity [...]
18 September 2017 by AFP
Carla Del Ponte blasts impunity in farewell speech Outgoing Syria war crimes investigator Carla Del Ponte said on Monday she had quit her post out of frustration over "total impunity", in a fiery farewell speech. Del Ponte, an accomplished war crimes prosecutor, announced last mon [...]
14 September 2017 by AFP
A movie takes on taboos of Lebanon's civil war Nearly three decades after it ended, Lebanon's civil war returned to haunt Beirut this week at a screening of the film "The Insult," which forcefully explores the taboos of the conflict. The movie opened to rave reviews at the Ven [...]
13 September 2017 by AFP
UN council calls for 'immediate steps' to end ethnic cleansing against Rohingyas in Myanmar The UN Security Council on Wednesday broke its weeks-long silence on the crisis in Myanmar and called for an end to the violence as UN chief Antonio Guterres said the military campaign amounted to ethnic cleansing of Rohingya Musl [...]
13 September 2017 by Hein Ko So, Frontier
In Myanmar, former child soldier punished for speaking out In Myanmar, the recent arrest of a man who gave an interview about his past as a child soldier has brought the issue to a wider audience ­but also raised fears about the military’s commitment to ending underage recruitment. Ko Aun [...]
12 September 2017 by Mratt Kyaw Thu, Frontier
‘That guy should be killed’: Escaping a mob in Maungdaw, Myanmar Hostility greeted three journalists who made a clandestine trip to Maungdaw, in Myanmar's troubled Rakhine state, late last month after the security operation had began against those behind the August 25 attacks. When 10 journalis [...]
12 September 2017 by AFP
Saudi-led strikes against children 'war crimes' in Yeman : HRW A series of Saudi-led coalition air strikes which killed 26 children in Yemen in June amount to war crimes, Human Rights Watch said on Monday. "The attacks, which struck four family homes and a grocery, in one case killing 14 memb [...]
11 September 2017 by François Sergent
Week in Review: Transitional justice challenges in Burundi, Myanmar and Mali The transitional justice week was marked by the publication of a new report on Burundi by the UN Human Rights Council. This report is even more damning than the previous one with regard to this small country in the Great Lakes reg [...]
11 September 2017 by AFP
Assad may win war but will preside over a ruined Syria Syria's President Bashar al-Assad appears to be winning the war against those who sought his overthrow, but he will preside over a ruined country with an economy in tatters. "Assad remains in charge of most of the population and m [...]
7 September 2017 by AFP
Kosovo's 'Rambo', Serbia's arch-antagonist, set to be PM A hero at home but considered a war criminal by Belgrade, Ramush Haradinaj is set to become Kosovo's prime minister just a few months after fighting against extradition to Serbia. If parliament approves his appointment as expected [...]
6 September 2017 by AFP
Recap of Syrian chemical weapons attacks since 2011 United Nations war crimes investigators said Wednesday they have evidence showing the Syrian regime carried out an April sarin gas attack in Idlib province that killed dozens of people. The attack was the latest in a string of che [...]
5 September 2017 by AiIeen Kimutai
The Kenyan supreme court decision may polarize the population It has been hailed as a benchmark the Kenyan Supreme Court ruling that nullified the August 8 presidential election results while ordering for a re-run within 60 days. The August 11 election declaration gave  the incumbent Uhuru K [...]