The punitive, prohibitionist war on drugs helped prolong Colombia’s disastrous civil war, the country’s truth commission has found, in a landmark report published on Tuesday as part of an effort to heal the raw wounds left by conflict. The report, ...
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Syria: Decade of brutal war left nearly 307,000 civilians dead |
africamustchange“The conflict-related casualty figures in this report are not simply a set of abstract numbers, but represent individual human beings,” UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet said, in a press release. “The impact of the killing of each ...
More than 70 grave violations against children caught up in war, being recorded daily: UNICEF |
africamustchangeThis is one of the key findings of a new report entitled, 25 years of children and armed conflict: Taking action to protect children in war, launched by the UN Children’s Fund UNICEF, on Tuesday. UNICEF’s report lays out in the ...
In Ukraine, Women Should Be Protected from Violence in War and Peace
africamustchangeAfter more than a decade of advocacy by women’s rights groups, and amid an armed conflict following Russia’s full-scale invasion, as well as a bid for European Union membership, on Monday Ukraine’s parliament took an important step in combating violence ...