Human Rights
Germany’s Muslims Unite in Solidarity with France After Charlie Hebdo Massacre
Human Wrongs Watch 12 January 2015 (RT)* — A union of Turkish imams has announced that it will organize demonstrations in front of various media organizations across Germany in solidarity with France after the deadly attack at Charlie Hebdo’s office in Paris. The Turkish-Islamic Union for Religious Affairs… »
UN Condemns Boko Haram’s ‘Depraved Act’ as Child Suicide Bombers Attack Northern Nigeria Market
Human Wrongs Watch Appalled by the escalating bloodshed at the hands of Boko Haram in northern Nigeria over the past week, capped by reports that suspected child suicide bombers attacked a crowded market in war-torn Borno state, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Anthony Lake, head of the… »
Who’s the terrorist?
The image of the events of 11th of January in Paris have provoked two opposing reactions: on the one hand I am greatly moved by the number of ordinary people who want to make a statement, with their presence, about their rejection of hate and violence, and on the other… »
Paris – 11 January 2015 March: 1.5 million people mobilised in support of freedom of expression
Show of support to the victims of the terrorist attacks. »
Spain’s Moroccan Enclave: The Story Behind the Picture
Human Wrongs Watch Nador, Morocco, 9 January 2015 (IRIN)* – Late last year an image went viral. In it two golfers, dressed in white on lush green fairways, appear oblivious as in the background around a dozen migrants try to scale a border fence in an attempt to enter… »
Today more than ever, nonviolence must triumph
I live in Paris, more precisely in Seine-Saint-Denis in an adjacent suburb (you may know this area which is often talked about, as it “burns” regularly) and like all here, since the massacre that took place in the premises of Charlie Hebdo and events that continue today, I am stunned. »
Je suis Charlie – but I have other names as well
Victor Grossman – Berlin Bulletin No. 82, January 9, 2015 (revised corrected version January 10) Monday evening I had planned to write about the PEGIDA movement in Germany. Although in Dresden, their city of origin, the number of bitter marchers protesting the “Islamization” of the West had increased stubbornly to… »
Palestine’s accession to the Rome Statute and other international instruments
By Nicolas Boeglin (*) Last January 6th, the United Nations Secretary General issued a note indicating that the Rome Statute, the treaty that establishes the International Criminal Court (ICC), will enter into force in relation to the State of Palestine on April 1st 2015 (see official note of the Secretary General acting… »
War in Middle East, Africa, Further Uprooted 5.5 Million People in First Six Months of 2014
Human Wrongs Watch Geneva, 7 January 2015 – The UN refugee agency UNHCR on 6 January 2015 reported* that war in the Middle East, Africa and elsewhere had uprooted an estimated 5.5 million people during the first six months of 2014, signaling a further rise… »
#JeSuisCharlie in #NYC
Despite freezing cold weather (-11C/12F) people rallied in NYC at Union Square to stand in solidarity with the victims of the terror attack against the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris on Wednesday morning. … »