Reports

SC/7985 Security Council 4898th Meeting* (AM & PM)Special Representative, UNICEF Executive Director Brief Council, Say Outrages against Children Persist, Rights Violated with Impunity Despite tangible progress in the struggle to ensure the protection, rights and well-being of children exposed…

5th January 2004 - 16th January 2004 1. Significant Events/ Highlights Ethnic clashes, aggravated by the cocoa harvest, continue to plague the west of the country. Since 29th December, 18 people have died. The conflict has also led…

15 -20 January 2004 General Situation 1. DDRR Following a meeting on 15 January of the Joint Monitoring Commission (JMC) meeting, it was agreed to hold a 15-day information and sensitization campaign that would constitute the re-commencement of the DDRR Process. A…

AI Index: AFR 51/002/2004 (Public) Two years after the Government of Sierra Leone and the United Nations (UN) signed an agreement to establish the Special Court for Sierra Leone, Amnesty International is calling on the international community not to waver…

Sarah Martin and Michelle Brown completed an assessment mission to Liberia in November 2003. Gender-based Violence (GBV) in all of its forms is endemic in Liberia. During the 14-year civil war, it is estimated that as many as 40% of…

10 -15 January 2004 GENERAL SITUATION 1. DDRR During a meeting of the Joint Monitoring Commission (JMC), on Monday 12 January the three warring parties indicated that necessary security arrangements must be put in place prior to a re-commencement of the DDRR…

SC/7980 Security Council <br> 4894th Meeting (PM) The Security Council this afternoon welcomed efforts currently under way to set up the first integrated and unified brigade in Kisangani, Democratic Republic of the Congo, as a step towards the formation of…

AI INDEX: AFR 16/002/2004 I INTRODUCTION An Amnesty International delegation visited Burundi in July and September 2003 and carried out research into allegations of human rights abuses in the provinces of Rural Bujumbura, Ruyigi, Gitega, Kayanza and Ngozi,…

AI INDEX: AFR 16/001/2004An Amnesty International appeal to participants of the International Donor Conference on Burundi, Belgium, 13-14 January 2004 Following the entry of Burundi's main armed political group, the CNDD-FDD (Nkurunziza) into a new more inclusive…

Officials speak in advance of international donor conference By James Fisher-Thompson, Washington File Staff Writer Washington -- The security situation in war-torn Liberia has improved enough to start planning for more long-range development assistance, according to Department of Defense and Department of State…