Human Rights Concerns Ahead of Zimbabwe Polls — Global Issues

Human Rights Concerns Ahead of Zimbabwe Polls — Global Issues

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Analysts are concerned about pre-election violence and intimidation ahead of next month’s Zimbabwean poll. Credit: Ignatius Banda/IPS by Ignatius Banda (bulawayo) Thursday, July 13, 2023 Inter Press Service BULAWAYO, Jul 13 (IPS) – Zimbabwe holds general elections next month amid growing human rights and press freedom concerns in what analysts say…

Emergency seed distribution campaign underway as fighting continues — Global Issues

Emergency seed distribution campaign underway as fighting continues — Global Issues

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The agency plans to reach and assist over one million vulnerable farmers and their families, estimated at around five million people. Combatting the crisis The fighting between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and powerful Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia, originates from the collapse of a 2022 power-sharing agreement between the…

Emergency seed distribution campaign underway as fighting continues — Global Issues

UN rights chief calls for probe after 87 bodies found in mass grave — Global Issues

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The victims, who included members of the Masalit ethnic community, were allegedly killed last month by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and allied militia, the UN human rights office, OHCHR, said, citing credible information. Local people were forced to dispose of the bodies in a mass grave outside the regional…

Emergency seed distribution campaign underway as fighting continues — Global Issues

Ending AIDS by 2030 a ‘political and financial choice’ — Global Issues

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That’s the message from UNAIDS, the UN agency dedicated to ending the epidemic, which said on Thursday that truly eradicating it boils down to a “political and financial choice”. The agency’s Executive Director, Winnie Byanyima, said that today’s leaders have the opportunity to save millions of lives and be “remembered…

Emergency seed distribution campaign underway as fighting continues — Global Issues

Rights experts denounce mass deportation of Eritreans — Global Issues

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According to the experts, hundreds of Eritreans were also subjected to summary deportations at the end of June. “Collective expulsions are prohibited under international law,” the experts, including Mohamed Babiker, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Eritrea, said in a news release issued by the UN human…

Twenty-five Years After the Creation of the International Criminal Court — Global Issues

Twenty-five Years After the Creation of the International Criminal Court — Global Issues

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Silvia Fernandez de Gurmendi Opinion by Silvia Fernandez de Gurmendi (the hague, netherlands) Thursday, July 13, 2023 Inter Press Service THE HAGUE, Netherlands, Jul 13 (IPS) – On the night of 17 July 1998, the outcome of the Diplomatic Conference convened to create the International Criminal Court was still uncertain. Hundreds…

NATO’s Four Big Challenges: A Subscriber+Exclusive Interview

NATO’s Four Big Challenges: A Subscriber+Exclusive Interview

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Exclusive Subscriber+Interview  — This week’s NATO Summit in Vilnius may have fallen short of the clear path to membership that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has been requesting for the past several months, but the 31 member nations did get some important business done. The Cipher Brief expert and former Ambassador…