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As the Myanmar authorities are subjecting the Rohingya Muslim minority to collective punishment, thousands of refugees who have made it across the border to Bangladesh in desperate need of humanitarian assistance are being forcibly pushed back in flagrant violation of international law, Amnesty International on 24 November 2016 said.
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TRANSCEND Media Service – 28 November 2016
Mr Franco Ippolito, President
Dr Gianni Tognoni, Secretary General
Ms Simona Fraudatario, Coordination
The Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal
Rome, Italy
We, the undersigned group of researchers, academics, and activists, in coalition with global Rohingya refugees, hereby request that the Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal (PPT) take up the urgent case of Myanmar’s Muslim Rohingya ethnic minority. We make this request in response to the well documented unfolding and escalating genocide in Rakhine state, Myanmar.
We ask that the Tribunal examine the current crisis in the context of historical evidence of recurring patterns of persecution by the Myanmar state against the Rohingya, that have precipitated at least three waves of mass exodus since the 1970s.
28 November 2016 – As the number of children living under siege has doubled in less than one year to nearly 500,000 amid escalating violence across Syria, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has called for lifting sieges and allowing immediate humanitarian access..
In Syria, Abdulaziz, 10, who lost his father during the war, comes to the ‘Land of Childhood’ underground playground to play and spend time with his friends. Photo: UNICEF/ Alshami
The UN Security Council. Credit: UN Photo/Evan Schneider
The nine include four rotating members — Spain, Ukraine, Italy and the Netherlands — from Europe, as well as the council’s five permanent members — China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States.
‘Raped, beaten and abused by their gangbanger partners, Honduran women find safety in Mexico where a legal change recognizes gender violence as grounds for asylum.’
Brenda, 39, was abused by her partner for 10 years. © UNHCR/Daniele Volpe
Nine-year-old Gabriel* does not like to speak much about his home in Honduras, but he can vividly describe one of his father’s final outbursts.
“He came home all crazy one night and he grabbed my mom by her hair and went Pow! Pow! Pow!” he says, miming the blows raining down on Brenda. “By the time he was done with my mom, we all had blood on us.”
Rome, 25 November 2016 (FAO)* –Assuring adequate tenure rights to land is an important step in improving food security for millions of people in developing countries, but safeguarding tenure isn’t so straightforward when it comes to the way land is used by mobile pastoralist communities.
Pastoralists’ complex tenure rights are key to community resilience| FAO
More than 500 million people on the planet rely on livestock herding, often steering their animals around various landscapes to reach water and pasture sources and avoid drought, animal disease and civil conflict.
21 November 2016
The Project for the New American Century (PNAC) was a neoconservative[1][2][3] think tank based in Washington, D.C. that focused on United States foreign policy. It was established as a non-profit educational organization in 1997, and founded by William Kristol and Robert Kagan.[4][5]
The PNAC’s stated goal was “to promote American global leadership.”[6] The organization stated that “American leadership is good both for America and for the world,” and sought to build support for “a Reaganite policy of military strength and moral clarity.”[7]
Of the twenty-five people who signed the PNAC’s founding statement of principles, ten went on to serve in the administration of U.S. President George W. Bush, including Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, and Paul Wolfowitz.[8][9][10][11]
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