Only one month after the UN Security Council ordered the Syrian government to open its border to aid, a new report by the UN body says that a pattern of obstruction, as well as continued fighting, is preventing necessary food and medicine from reaching needy civilians.
Thousands of residents in the last remaining Muslim neighborhoods in the Central African Republic’s capital have been under repeated attack. They are neither safe enough to remain peaceably in Bangui, the capital, nor to travel to other areas.
Today was another busy day at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva. First, in a landmark move, the Human Rights Council passed a resolution urging North Korea’s human rights crisis be taken up at the UN Security Council, and possibly even in the International Criminal Court or an ad hoc international tribunal.The UN panel also came down hard on the United States, citing a lack of oversight in surveillance and drone killings.
Some countries voted in ways that would repress -- rather than uphold -- human rights.As the 20th anniversary of the Rwandan genocide nears, significant progress has been made in national and international courts to bring to justice those responsible for the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. A new Human Rights Watch piece highlights both the achievements and the flaws of Rwanda’s road to justice. Between April and July 1994, more than a half million people were killed in just three months.
