Reports

Intern Tara Golden and Advocate Anne Edgerton prepared this report. "We are truly the forgotten people of Rwanda, having been there for the longest, having lived for thousands of years in the rainforests of Africa before the Hutu and the…

This month we are witness to an historic intervention in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The International community, led by the European Union, is sending the United Nations' equivalent of the cavalry to stem the massacres of innocent…

Paris, le 12 août 2003 - La FIDH a pris acte de l'adoption par l'Assemblée nationale le mercredi 6 août 2003 de la Loi d'amnistie. La loi, prise en conformité avec les Accords de Marcoussis conclus entre les forces…

Foreign Affairs Minister Bill Graham today welcomed the departure from Liberia of ex-President Charles Taylor, calling it a positive sign for Liberia, its people and the region. "Taylor's exit from the country will help to spare Liberian civilians from further…

(New York, August 11, 2003) Nigerian authorities must arrest Liberian ex-President Charles Taylor and deliver him to the Special Court for Sierra Leone, Human Rights Watch said today. Taylor accepted Nigeria's offer of safe haven today and left for Nigeria…

LONDON/NEW YORK/GENEVA/KINSHASA, 11 August 2003 - Shocked and deeply moved by the brutal and sometimes systematic rape of women and children in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Jessica Lange said today that the world can no…

POLITICAL SITUATION Three events marked this week, the vote of the amnesty law by the Parliament of Cote d'Ivoire, the interview of President Gbagbo in the framework of the celebration of the Independence Day, and the return in Cote d'Ivoire…

Humanitarian Activities 1. Action Against Hunger (ACF) residence looted On Saturday evening [9 August] the ACF residence in Kayanza was looted by between 15-20 bandits, who stole IT and communications equipment, including a small sum of money and other household goods. One…

HR/CN/1051 GENEVA, 8 August (UN Information Service) -- Bertrand Ramcharan, the Acting High Commissioner for Human Rights, today submitted an emergency report to the Commission on Human Rights on international crimes and other gross violations of human rights committed in Liberia.…

Paris, le 8 août 2003 - Après plusieurs semaines de combats sanglants au Liberia entre les forces gouvernementales et les forces rebelles du LURD (Libériens unis pour la réconciliation et la démocratie) et du MODEL (Mouvement pour la démocratie…