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UN chief’s envoy to Afghanistan meets Hekmatyar
Q&A: Iran’s presidential election 2017
Source : FIDH, WORLDWIDE MOVEMENT FOR HUMAN RIGHTS Since its establishment in 1979, the Islamic Republic of Iran has regularly organised parliamentary and presidential elections, but these polls have regularly failed to meet international standards […]
Tuesday 23 May 2017More than Malnutrition: Famine as Social Crisis
Stephen O’Brien, head of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, briefed the UN Security Council on March 10 on the famine in South Sudan and the dangers of imminent famine in […]
Tuesday 23 May 2017Rouhani Wins Re-election in Iran by a Wide Margin
Source : New York Times President Hassan Rouhani of Iran on May 13. With most of the votes from Friday’s election counted, the Interior Ministry said Mr. Rouhani had won 22.8 million. Credi tEbrahim Noroozi/Associated […]
Tuesday 23 May 2017Confronting the Use of Child Soldiers in Iraq
Source : Justice in Conflict by Mark Kersten Laura Nacyte joins JiC for this post on need for accountability for the use of child soldiers in Iraq. Laura is an MSc graduate of Global Security from […]
Tuesday 23 May 2017Thousands of Afghan children face acute malnutrition amid ‘unprecedented’ displacement
Source : UN Bamiyan, Afghanistan: children make a long journey to continue their education. Photo: UNICEF/Abdul Aziz Froutan 9 January 2017 – Despite attempts to increase food aid in Afghanistan, children bear the brunt […]
Tuesday 23 May 2017Don’t Profit From Abuses by Bahrain
New York Times By NABEEL RAJAB / MAY 17, 2017 Yemen has entered its third year of war, and war crimes are being committed at an escalating rate. For Yemen’s children, facing a man-made famine, this conflict […]
Thursday 18 May 2017Review: ‘Legion of Brothers’ on Secret Missions in Afghanistan
Source: New York Times By KEN JAWOROWSKI An American Special Forces team in Afghanistan in 2001, with Hamid Karzai, center, the country’s future president, as seen in “Legion of Brothers.” CreditGravitas Ventures You’ll have to wade […]
Thursday 18 May 2017Mr Benjamin B. Ferencz visits ICC: “Law, Not War, is Humanity’s Hope“
SOURCE: ICC ICC Registrar Herman von Hebel, ICC President Judge Silvia Fernández de Gurmendi, Benjamin B. Ferencz, ICC Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda, and ICC Deputy Prosecutor James Stewart on 15 May 2017 at ICC premises in […]
Thursday 18 May 2017
