Informes

17 December 2011 – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has voiced hope that the Sri Lankan Government will move forward on its commitments to deal with accountability concerns in the wake of the long-running civil war in the…

Governments Should Act on UN Panel Call for International Investigation (New York, December 17, 2011) – The report of the Sri Lankan government’s Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC) disregards the worst abuses by government forces, rehashes…

‘Slap on the wrist’ for police violence in Papua is accountability failure “These written warnings are a slap on the wrist. They do not provide accountability for the deaths of three people, or for the use of…

By Frud Bezhan November 24, 2011 Thousands of children roam the dusty streets and grimy alleyways of Afghanistan, working to earn desperately needed money for their families. The sight of shabbily-dressed children, sometimes as young as three years…

26 October 2011 – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today reiterated the importance of dealing with accountability issues as Sri Lanka continues to work towards national reconciliation following its long-running civil war. Mr. Ban stressed the point during a…

Hundreds of children in northern town miss out on school. By Baqer Adeli - Afghanistan ARR Issue 412, 15 Oct 11 In the relentless heat of a summer’s day in the northern Afghan city of Mazar-e Sharif, most people…

Gary Thomas A new United Nations report says Afghan police and intelligence officers are systematically torturing some detainees in their custody. The abuses detailed in the report were found to be so widespread that the U.S.…

This paper provides an overview of why and how DFID is aiming to enable poor people to exercise greater choice and control over their own development and to hold decision-makers to account. The challenge Despite some progress towards…

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today stressed the need for a “credible national accountability process” over actions in the final stages of the civil war in Sri Lanka during a meeting with Mahinda Rajapaksa, the country’s President. Mr. Ban…

COLOMBO, 14 September 2011 (IRIN) - The failure of a national accountability commission could add to calls for an international inquiry, a top US diplomat warned on 14 September in Sri Lanka. "If it [a national inquiry]…