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Survivors of sexual violence in war zones need to be recognized as legitimate victims of conflict and terrorism, and not blamed, stigmatized or shamed, the United Nations has said in an annual report to be presented to the Security Council.

Source: Council on Foreign Relations by Eben Kaplan Introduction The use of children as soldiers in armed conflict is among the most morally repugnant practices in the world, as illustrated by this Los Angeles Times […]

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 […]

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 […]

Source: Human Rights Watch Child recruitment is losing hearts and minds, and it is costing boys and girls dearly. by Zama Neff “Daoud” said he wanted to fight “for revenge” after the Islamic State of Iraq […]

NEW ISSUE Armanshahr HR & Civil Society NEWSLETTER Special “2017 Education Campaign”, no. 200-2001 (Year VIII), 29 APRIL 2017

NEW ISSUE of Armanshahr Human Rights & Civil Society NEWSLETTER issue no. 200 (Year VIII), 29 APRIL 2017

READ the latest issue of Armanshahr/OPEN ASIA bilingual Human Rights and Civil Society weekly newsletter, no 199, Year VIII

Source: Anti War Literary and Philosophical Selections “To those of us who still retain an irreconcilable animus against war….” Whatever sickening justification may be advanced. David Peterson /Chicago, USA Links to hundreds of writings against […]

Nobel Laureate, Economist Amartya Sen, in way back 1990’s introduced the term “missing women”, showing a deficit in the number of women relative to the expected number of women in a region.