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The Democratic Republic of Congo government should urgently reform the country’s justice system to better prosecute atrocities, Human Rights Watch said in a report released on October 1.

Fighting between rival militias in the Central African Republic capital of Bangui since Saturday has left at least 36 people dead, forced thousands to flee their homes and moved the reconciliation process a step backwards.

Accenture and the Accenture Foundations have made a US$4.5 million grant to Save the Children to help the nonprofit provide job skills training to 47,000 at-risk youth in Indonesia and the Philippines.

On the evening of September 29, six amicus briefs were filed with the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals in support of four men suing private military contractor CACI Premier Technology, Inc. (CACI) for the company’s role in torturing and otherwise seriously mistreating them at the infamous Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.

Economic activity in the six South East European countries is picking up speed, and growth in the region is expected to average 1.8 percent in 2015, compared to only 0.3 percent in 2014, according to the World Bank’s latest South East Europe Regular Economic Report. Private investment has become the main driver of regional growth in SEE6 (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYR Macedonia), Montenegro, and Serbia).

Children were deliberately targeted in the latest flare of violence in Central African Republic that killed three dozen people and wounded more than a hundred in the capital Bangui last Saturday.

A German court’s conviction of two Rwandan rebel leaders for crimes in the Democratic Republic of Congo brings an important measure of justice to victims of mass crimes there, Human Rights Watch said on September 28.

The UK will provide new life-saving support to tens of thousands of Iraqis forced to flee their homes by the brutal rise of ISIL, International Development Minister Desmond Swayne announced on 29 September.

The Investigation Report issued by the Office of the United Nation’s High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) dated 16th September 2015, is the most comprehensive report on human rights issued by any international or national agency to date. It is comprehensive and balanced. If implemented it could lead to considerable positive developments in Sri Lanka. This 261 page report sums up some of the most serious problems relating to the rule of law and the administration of justice that have arisen over a considerable period of time. Although the period relevant to the Report is from 2002-2011, it in fact reflects the development over four decades, on the collapse of law and democracy in all related institutions. The report also presents detailed recommendations for the pursuit of reconciliation and administration of justice in Sri Lanka.

Local, state and national animal protection and environmental organizations filed a “friend of the court” brief on September 25 in support of a lawsuit to stop the impending trophy hunt of Florida black bears, an iconic and rare species with a long history of threats to its survival.