ፍትህ ለሁሉም / Justice for All
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC; the Congo) experienced a spike in violence in the latter months of 2023, as the country anticipates national elections in December. Clashes involving militant groups over territory and natural resources, extrajudicial killings by security forces, political violence, and rising tensions with neighboring Rwanda (mostly regarding its alleged support for militia …
We knew that we could make a difference if more people could see for themselves the power of local action. So, we set about working with local partners across the world, in some of the most hostile and fragile circumstances, to help support and scale their work and to build an evidence base to demonstrate …
The Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict is rooted in a dispute over sovereignty in Nagorny Karabakh, a mountainous area of some 4,400 square kilometres. The territory is inhabited by a local ethnic Armenian majority but formed part of Soviet Azerbaijan. In 1987 Nagorny Karabakh’s Armenian population began a campaign to separate from Azerbaijan and unify with Armenia. The …
Presentation at the roundtable: “Political, Electoral and Human Rights Crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo: Learning from Experiences in South Africa and the SADC Region,” co-hosted by the Electoral Institute for Sustainable Democracy in Africa (EISA) and Human Rights Watch The Democratic Republic of Congo faces a worsening humanitarian, human rights, and security crisis. The …
Once infamous for their widespread atrocities in Uganda, the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) is now scattered among the border regions of Democratic Republic of Congo, South Sudan and the Central African Republic. Since 2008, an estimated 7,600 people have been abducted by the LRA in these three countries alone. Northeastern DRC In the remote border …
2024 situation overview The emergency in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is one of the most complex humanitarian crises in the world. Decades of clashes between armed groups, widespread violations of human rights, and devastating incidents of gender-based violence have caused unprecedented levels of protection needs, vulnerabilities and risks, displacing 6.1 million people within the …
The Global Compact on Refugees (GCR) is a framework for more predictable and equitable responsibility-sharing, recognizing that a sustainable solution to refugee situations cannot be achieved without international cooperation. It provides a blueprint for governments, international organizations, and other stakeholders to ensure that host communities get the support they need and that refugees can lead …
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Our society faces multiple crisis — culture wars, unprecedented dissatisfaction with democracy, vast inequalities, a climate and ecological emergency — but where is the alternative? In his new book, Free and Equal: What Would a Fair Society Look Like?, Daniel Chandler argues that the ideas we need are hiding in plain sight, in the work …
It is hard to destroy a naturally beautiful city like San Francisco, with ideal weather and stunning infrastructure inherited from far better earlier generations. Yet San Francisco continues its much-publicized and self-inflicted doom loop. The productive classes still flee the increasingly crime-ridden city and its self-induced pathologies. The city is eroding not because of the …