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“New Models of Peacekeeping: Security and Protection of Human Rights. The Role of the UN and Regional Organization”

Source: ICC By Judge Silvia Fernández de Gurmendi President of the International Criminal Court Lectio magistralis at the Conference: CHECK AGAINST DELIVERY 12 May 2017 Rome, Italy Excellencies, Ladies and gentlemen, I would first like […]

Saturday 10 June 2017

The Rites of the Child: Global Discourses of Youth and Reintegrating Child Soldiers in Sierra Leone

Source: Taylor and Francis Online Abstract This article describes how the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) and other international child rights instruments are implicated in the postwar reintegration of child excombatants in […]

Saturday 10 June 2017

Is the ICC biased against African countries ?

Source : Al Jazeera The International Criminal Court (ICC) was set up to prosecute war criminals and human rights violators, who proponents argue would otherwise go free. In recent months, however, African countries have threatened […]

Saturday 10 June 2017

The International Criminal Court’s Africa problem

Source: Al Jazeera At the beginning of 2013, all cases launched so far by the ICC involve Africans, throwing into question the court’s “international” nature. African political leaders widely believe that the the International Criminal […]

Saturday 10 June 2017

Nepalese women trafficked to Syria and forced to work as maids

Source: The Guardian By Pete Pattisson While millions are fleeing the brutal conflict in Syria, hundreds of Nepalese women are being trafficked to the war-torn country and forced to work as domestic maids. The women, who […]

Saturday 10 June 2017

They fled Afghanistan fearing for their lives but Europe forced them back

Source: Amnesty International By Anna Shea   The moment you step outside the airport in Kabul, the first thing that strikes you are the roses. They are everywhere — lining the dusty motorway into town, […]

Saturday 10 June 2017

“You Don’t Forget Your Torturers”: Wachira Waheire’s 30-Year Quest for Justice in Kenya

Source: ICTJ Wachira Waheire strode into Nairobi’s Sankara Hotel, made his way to the café attached to its lobby and scanned the room carefully. He was meeting someone he had not seen in 20 years, […]

Saturday 10 June 2017

New issue of Armanshahr HR & Civil Society NEWSLETTER, Special Afghanistan, nos. 204-205 (Year VIII)

Read New issue of Armanshahr HR & Civil Society bilingual weekly NEWSLETTER, Special Afghanistan, nos. 204-205 (Year VIII), 7 JUNE 2017

Saturday 10 June 2017

ICTJ Examines How Transitional Justice Must Adapt to Difficult Circumstances in Today’s World

A new book by ICTJ titled Justice Mosaics: How Context Shapes Transitional Justice in Fractured Societies, examines the challenges of responding to massive human rights violations in different and difficult circumstances.

Friday 9 June 2017

The scars of 1967 through the eyes of an Arab millennial

Source: TRT World Young Ahmed is raised with his father’s scarring memories of the Six-Day War only to grow up and face his own socio-political trauma. Achment Gonim is of Egyptian descent, raised in Greece […]

Friday 9 June 2017