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Joint open letter on transfer of 155mm artillery shells to Israel
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...
Platforming Human Trafficking: Tweeting Human Auctions in the Middle East
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...
U.S. Security Partnerships and the Protection of Civilians
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...
Civil Society Letter to Congress on Yemen (04 Dec 2020)
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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Congress should approve aid for COVID-19’s new epicenter: Latin America and the Caribbean
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,...
Yemen: Urgent Measures Needed to Protect Civilians from COVID-19 [EN/AR]
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...
Joint statement by 59 Nongovernmental Organizations on the announcement of a temporary ceasefire in Yemen
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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Fighting for Peace: The Tricky Business of Using Greater Force in UN Peace Operations (March 2015)
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...
Five Years After the Earthquake in Haiti, the Sad State of Democracy and Human Rights
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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Aplicando la Ley Leahy a la asistencia militar y policial de los EE.UU.
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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Applying the Leahy Law to U.S. military and police aid
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...
Prevention and Community Engagement: Keys to Disaster Management in Cash-Strapped Cuba
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...
Disaster Medicine: U.S. Doctors Examine Cuba’s Approach
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,...
From Quick Wins to Long-Term Profits? Developing better approaches to support security and justice engagements in fragile states: Burundi case study
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...
Mexico Climate Politics Heats Up
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,...
More Lessons from Cuba's hurricane Preparedness and Civil Defense
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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A Cautionary Tale: Plan Colombia's Lessons for Mexico and Beyond
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...
Mexico's New Agricultural Crisis
Posted on: 15/02/2011 by Kent Paterson CIP Americas Program February's freezing fury has left a path of crumpled crops, pummeled harvests and dashed dreams in the countryside of northern Mexico...
Beyond the Blue Helmets: Stability in Haiti Requires New Elections
Along Avenue John Brown in Port-au-Prince, freshly painted graffiti reads aba seleksyon! - down with the undemocratic selection process. It is a key message in a visual protest against the failure of...