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Over 300 writers join PEN International in launch of its global campaign for displaced writers
PEN Intl’s 3 year “Make Space” campaign launched 31 May 2017 backed by writers from PEN’s global membership, aims to create opportunities for writers having experienced forced displacement/ living in exile.Through publications, events, advocacy & projects.
Friday 2 June 2017Missing: Political Creativity – Vox populi, vox dei
Source: TRANSCEND Media Service (TMS)/Solutions Oriented Peace Journalism By: Johan Galtung A key slogan during the student revolt in Paris May 1968, soon 50 years ago, was Imagination au pouvoir! Bring imagination to power! We […]
Thursday 1 June 2017A Look at Deadly Afghan Insurgent Attacks in Recent Years
Afghan insurgents have stepped up their attacks since the drawdown of NATO troops from Afghanistan in 2014, devastating the capital of Kabul with increasingly deadly and brutal assaults and leaving Afghans feeling embattled and exhausted following 16 years of war.
Thursday 1 June 2017Will the ICC Launch a Full Investigation in Afghanistan?
Source: Lawfare By David Bosco Monday, May 8, 2017, 11:10 AM In mid-November, International Criminal Court prosecutor Fatou Bensouda announced that her office would make a decision “in the very near future” on whether to […]
Thursday 1 June 2017The ICC’s Afghanistan Investigation: The Missing Option – Will Americans be charged?
Source: Law Fare Blog By Luis Moreno Ocampo Monday, April 24, 2017, 8:30 AM In a February Lawfare post, David Bosco analyzed the different possible US responses to the pending decision of the International Criminal […]
Tuesday 30 May 2017Attacks on human rights activists reach crisis point globally
Trump’s foreign trip will have dangerous consequences. They’ve already begun.
Iraq: Armed Groups Using Child Soldiers
Source: Human Rights Watch Armed Groups Should Immediately Demobilize Children (Beirut) – Armed groups in Iraq affiliated to the Kurdistan Workers’ Party have recruited boys and girls, Human Rights Watch said today. In two cases […]
Tuesday 30 May 2017Palestine Retold: Palestine’s Tragic Anniversaries Are Not Only About Remembrance
Source: Countercurrents.org By: Dr. Ramzy Baroud For Palestinians, 2017 is a year of significant anniversaries. While historians mark May 15th as the anniversary of the date on which Palestinians were expelled from their historic homeland in […]
Tuesday 23 May 2017
