
In light of the recent and alarming escalation of indiscriminate and widespread Israeli attacks across Lebanon, we, the undersigned organizations, call on the international community to unequivocally...
In light of the recent and alarming escalation of indiscriminate and widespread Israeli attacks across Lebanon, we, the undersigned organizations, call on the international community to unequivocally...
May 10, 2024: The Department of State and the Department of Defense have submitted a much-anticipated report to the U.S. Congress today, which includes a section on Israel. In response,...
The Honorable Joseph R. Biden, Jr. President of the United States The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington, DC 20500 Mr. President: We are non-governmental organizations supporting the...
Dear Secretary Austin, We, the undersigned humanitarian, national security, human rights, faith-based, civilian protection, and grassroots organizations, write to express our alarm regarding the...
By Mohammad Al-Abbas INTRODUCTION Technological innovation, particularly in the telecommunication sector, has been a driving force for change in society – and its criminal underworld. Social media...
By Brown University, Security Assistance Monitor and InterAction Summary The August 2020 coup in Mali triggered restrictions under section 7008 of the Department of State, Foreign Operations, and...
In this letter, NRC and 29 organisations call on the United States Congress to speak out unequivocally on the humanitarian consequences for Yemen if plans to designate Ansar Allah as a terrorist...
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In a letter to congressional leadership, 34 civil society groups highlight the urgent need for the U.S. government to provide $12 billion in the international response to the COVID-19 crisis,...
The conflict in Yemen is entering its sixth year, resulting in what is considered the worst man-made humanitarian crisis in the world. On 10 April, the first COVID-19 case was confirmed in the...
Over five years of brutal war in Yemen have left millions of Yemenis weakened by malnutrition and disease, and decimated Yemen’s health system. The imminent threat of COVID-19 will exacerbate an...
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By Nicole Ball The authority granted by the United Nations Charter to use force to protect international peace and security has long lain dormant. The end of the Cold War, the genocides in Rwanda and...
An Interview with Human Rights Organizer Jackson Doliscar Some things never change. In Haiti, no matter the century or decade in question, one can be certain that: the state and elite are trouncing...
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América Latina y el Caribe promotores de derechos humanos y periodistas pueden no ser conscientes de una poderosa herramienta para frenar la impunidad entre los militares y policías que reciben...
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INTRODUCTION Latin American and Caribbean human rights promoters and journalists may be unaware of a powerful tool to curb impunity among military and police that receive U.S. assistance: the “Leahy...
Cuba has developed an integrated, countrywide civil defense system that has succeeded in preventing widespread loss of life from natural disasters, especially the recurrent hurricanes that batter the...
Emergency medicine and public health officials from the U.S. Southeast and Gulf Coast made up the latest CIP delegation to Cuba in May to look at the island’s response to natural disasters,...
As part of its ongoing work on developing better approaches to support security and justice engagements in fragile states, INCAF commissioned a study of security and justice programming in Burundi...
By Kent Paterson History has not been kind to the indigenous Raramuri people of the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua. Pushed to remote mountains of a harsh land by Spanish and mestizo colonists,...
By Elizabeth Newhouse Hurricane Irene led the news in August 2011—the deadliest year for the giant storms in the United States since 2008. It killed 45 people and caused at least $7 billion in...
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By Adam Isacson, Lisa Haugaard, Jennifer Johnson The Latin America Working Group, the Center for International Policy and the Washington Office on Latin America release a new report on the Colombian...