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When former U.N. investigator Gerry Lane (Brad Pitt) and his family get stuck in urban gridlock, he senses that it's no ordinary traffic jam. His suspicions are confirmed when, suddenly, the city erupts into chaos. A lethal virus, spread through a single bite, is turning healthy people into something vicious, ...
German parliament on Friday condemned the violence against the Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar's Rakhine State. In a voting held in the parliament, a joint draft resolution prepared by Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats (CDU), Christian Social Union (CSU), Social Democrat Party (SPD), ...

An ESPN investigation found that the regime has "shot, bombed or tortured to death dozens of pro soccer players". Starvation and displacement. UN investigators have condemned the regime's use of starvation as a weapon of war. The regime has used it as part of its policy of forced displacement. Since the ...
... include 730 children below the age of 5. The UN has documented mass gang rapes, killings -- including of infants and young children -- brutal beatings, and disappearances committed by security personnel. In a report, UN investigators said such violations may have constituted crimes against humanity.
The UN has documented mass gang rapes, killings -- including of infants and young children -- brutal beatings, and disappearances committed by security personnel. In a report, UN investigators said such violations may have constituted crimes against humanity. Reporting by Omer Faruk Yildiz:Writing by ...
U.N. investigators, human rights groups and humanitarian agencies, such as Medecins sans Frontieres, say that Myanmar's military campaign targeted tens of thousands of civilians, including women and children. MSF, which had extensive aid operations in Rakhine State, recently estimated that the mainly ...

In response, the U.S. imposed sanctions on North Korea under the Chemical and Biological Weapons Control and Warfare Elimination Act in addition to existing U.S. comprehensive sanctions targeting unlawful North Korean activities. Later that month, a leaked report by U.N. investigators said that North ...
Hillary Onek, the Minister for Relief, Disaster Preparedness and Refugees has said an investigative team from the United Nations is in the country to investigate accusations of alleged sex trafficking of refugees and the misappropriation of funds meant for refugee programs.
Meanwhile, AHRC executive director Arpee Santiago urged government to participate in a UN investigator's probe should it take place, saying that the expert is “independent” and “not a political figure.” ... Duterte hasn't taken kindly to the possibility of a UN investigator looking into Philippine affairs.
Russia has previously voted to block a resolution that would give U.N. investigators a wider mandate on chemical weapons in Syria, Michele added. Russia's representative accused the U.S. of simply seeking a pretext to justify further use of force against Syria, Michele reported. In the alleged attack over ...
U.N. investigators found training gaps, leadership hitches and other problems, including a lack of a plan to reinforce peacekeepers or pull them out during an attack. The probe blamed the December assault and two others on the Allied Democratic Forces rebel group. It began as an anti-government force in ...
FILE PHOTO: Paulo Pinheiro, Chairperson of the Commission of Inquiry on Syria, arrives with Karen Abuzayd, member of the Commission before the launch of their report on sexual and gender-based violence in Syria at the United Nations office in Geneva, Switzerland March 15, 2018. REUTERS/Denis ...
A UN reporter has called out Facebook as a tool for spreading “acrimony, dissension and conflict” in escalating what is now being called a genocide against ethnic Rohingya Muslims at the hands of Myanmar security forces and a supportive government. Facebook. © Sputnik/ Natalia Seliverstova.
U.N. investigators are calling for justice in light of separate reports to the United Nations Human Rights Council describing widespread and gross violations of human rights in South Sudan and Burundi. More than four years of fighting in South Sudan has left nearly six million people facing hunger, more ...
Facebook under fire from UN investigators over role in Rohingya crisis. Share on Facebook Share Tweet on Twitter Share Share. What's This? A young woman looks at her Facebook wall while she travels on a bus in Yangon. Image: AFP/GETTY IMAGES.
Rohingya women and children at a Bangladeshi refugee camp. Photo: Masfiqur Sohan / NurPhoto via Getty Image. Human rights investigators at the United Nations are saying that Facebook played "a determining role" in disseminating hateful rhetoric in Myanmar, Reuters reports. Close to 670,000 Rohingya Muslim ...
U.N. investigators are calling for justice in light of separate reports to the United Nations Human Rights Council describing widespread and gross violations of human rights in South Sudan and Burundi. More than four years of fighting in South Sudan has left nearly six million people facing hunger, more ...

United Nations investigators blamed Facebook for playing a crucial role in the spread of misinformation and hate speech against the Rohingya Muslim minority in Myanmar, where officials are suspected of possible “acts of genocide.” U.N. special rapporteur for human rights Yanghee Lee told reporters that ...
United Nations officials have accused Facebook of spreading hate speech in Myanmar, where human rights experts are investigating a possible genocide against the Rohingya Muslim minority. Marzuki Darusman, chairman of the U.N. Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar, told ...
Duterte: Feed UN Investigators to the Crocodiles ... Several days ago the president ordered a UN investigator be listed as a terrorist. Al Hussein says the Philippine government “has a duty to uphold human rights and to engage with persons appointed” as a member of the UN Human Rights Council and a ...
UN official Marzuki Darusman probing possible genocide in Myanmar's Rakhine state says social media spread hate speech as military and Buddhist mobs forced nearly 700,000 Rohingya Muslims from villages. Rohingya Muslims of Myanmar are one of the most persecuted and discriminated against ...
[JURIST] UN investigators on Tuesday reported [press release] that Russian airstrikes on a Syrian market that killed more than 80 civilians last year may constitute a war crime. The UN Commission of Inquiry on Syria [official website] stated that on November 13 "the Russian Air Force carried out airstrikes ...
It was a devastating airstrike that killed at least 84 people, including five children, shopping at a crowded local market, at a police station, and at family homes nearby. But now, a United Nations panel has determined it was more than a bloody day in a suburb of Syria's once-largest city Aleppo: it may have ...
The United States, France, and the United Kingdom acted after careful evaluation of these facts. " In August 2015, the U.N. Security Council first authorized the OPCW and U.N. investigators to probe reports of chemical weapons use in Syria, as witnesses began to circulate increasing accounts of chlorine ...


 

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