Prospects for Rakhine reconciliation dim
A Rohingya village in October 2012.
SRI LANKA: On your knees ladies and gentlemen, on your knees!
Suggesting perhaps that the creative imagination of the cartoonist is catching up with the reality of Sri Lanka the Daily Mirror yesterday carried this cartoon as an illustration for its editorial entitled, A case for best legal brains.
Conflict and returnees strain South Sudan food security
Increasing food insecurity.
Center for Constitutional Rights Demands Obama Take Action Available to Him to Close Gitmo: Use Waiver, Transfer 86 Cleared Men, Lift Yemen Repatriations Ban
The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) released the following statement in response to the president’s comments about Guantanamo at a press conference and said, among other things, "Now Congress determined that they would not let us close it and...
Central African Republic: amid worsening violence, UN refugee agency warns against forcible returns
People who have fled from the Central African Republic mill in an area of Worobe camp in northern...
Pakistan: Ensure Election Security from Taliban Attacks
Pakistan’s interim government should take all necessary steps to ensure the safety of candidates and political party activists at risk of attack from the Taliban and other militant groups, Human Rights Watch said Monday.
Social protection measures key in fight against child labour, says new UN report
ILO report shows why social protection is crucial to tackle child labour.
BURMA: Criminalization of rights defenders and impunity for police
The Asian Human Rights Commission condemns in the strongest terms the announcement of the commander of the Sagaing Region Police Force, Myanmar, that the police will arrest and charge eight human rights defenders whom it blames for inciting protests...
Children bear brunt of CAR crisis
Children continue to be recruited into the ranks of armed groups in the Central African Republic, like these new...
Owner of Collapsed Bangladesh Factory Arrested
Police in Bangladesh say they have taken into custody the owner of a factory complex that collapsed last Wednesday, killing at least 377 people.
