The UN inspectors investigating the chemical weapons in Syria weren’t supposed to point the finger at the party responsible for the killings. Even so, by taking the data from the Sellstrom report, Human Rights Watch was able to work out the rockets’ trajectory and their likely launch point.
Now the question becomes accountability, which could start with the UN Security Council referring the situation to the International Criminal Court (ICC).
Colombia’s decades long civil conflict has forced 4.9 million people from their land. But despite the country’s restitution program, those who try and return to their land are threatened and even killed, a new Human Rights Watch report shows.
Displaced Colombians are estimated to have left behind 6 million hectares of land, much of which armed groups, their allies, and others seized and still hold. Moreover, justice authorities have rarely prosecuted the people who originally displaced claimants and stole their land.California Governor Jerry Brown signed into law a bill that offers hope and a meaningful opportunity of parole for some 5,000 youth offenders in the state.
Across North Carolina, thousands of children work long hours on commercial farms that make agriculture the state’s top industry. Under a double standard in US labor law, children can work in agriculture at far younger ages and in far more hazardous conditions than other working children.
