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Crime Watch: Rape and other forms of sexual violence

Amnesty International & CODESRIA

Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Rape by agents of a state or other officials is classified as torture in the Convention against torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading...

A Matter of Humanity not Creed

Thursday, January 15, 2009

The genocide in the Gaza Strip is continuing despite the fact that the international community is demanding that the Israelis stop their attempts...

Stop This Genocide!

Tuesday, January 06, 2009

It is with heavy hearts that we hear and read reports of the Israeli’s war on the people of Palestine. We call for an end to the carnage not because...

SUDAN: Plight of Darfur's displaced worse than ever

http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?ReportId=81028

Saturday, November 22, 2008

TAWILA Tuesday, October 21, 2008 (IRIN) - As Sudan lobbies the international community for support in its fight to ward off looming charges of...

Preventing atrocities: the real test of new world order

Tuesday, October 07, 2008

The major shift in global power provides an opportunity to protect all civilians from genocide and other atrocities, said international agency Oxfam...

President of Sudan could face arrest over Darfur war crimes

Saturday, July 19, 2008

On Monday 14 July, Chief Prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo submitted to the pre-trial chamber of the International Criminal Court (ICC) an application...

RWANDA: Reconciliation still a major challenge

IRIN http://www.irinnews.org

Tuesday, April 15, 2008

Brigitte Mukandoli was a schoolgirl when a group of militias manning a roadblock near her village of Bishenyi, close to the Rwandan capital, Kigali,...

ZIMBABWE: SADC steps into the fray

IRIN http://www.irinnews.org

Friday, April 11, 2008

An extraordinary summit of the 14-member state Southern African Development Community (SADC) is being scheduled for the weekend of 12 April, to...

Remember Rwanda by Defending Darfur

Wednesday, April 09, 2008

‘War on Terror’ Ties with Sudan No Excuse for U.S. Inaction on Genocide, Says Africa Action Yesterday the world recognized the 14th anniversary of...

RWANDA: Protect genocide survivors, authorities urged

IRIN http://www.irinnews.org

Tuesday, April 08, 2008

As Rwanda marks the International Day of Reflection on the Genocide on 8 April, the authorities are being called upon to provide better protection...