UNSC debate on Kenya and the ICC: summary of country positions
16 November 2013New York: An almost evenly divided Security Council, lacking the requisite nine affirmative votes, today failed to adopt a resolution seeking a one-year delay in International Criminal...
View ArticleMemorandum on priorities for the African Union-European Union dialogue on...
20 November 2013The African Union-European Union Dialogue on Human Rights provides an important opportunity to highlight crucial human rights developments in both Africa and Europe. Progress is being...
View ArticleKenya: Somali repatriation process must be voluntary, UN agency stresses
27 November 2013New York: The agreement signed earlier this month between the United Nations refugee agency and the Governments of Somalia and Kenya supports the voluntary repatriation of Somali...
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Pretoria principles on ending mass atrocities pursuant to article 4(h) of the...
Date published on SAFPI: Friday, 29 November, 2013Publication date of source: Friday, 29 November, 2013Source organisation: University of Pretoria, Centre for Human RightsKeyword tags: African Union...
View ArticleProposed Kenyan legislation restricting civil society must be rejected - UN...
04 December 2013New York: A group of independent United Nations human rights experts have urged the Kenyan Government to reject legislation that would impose severe restrictions on civil society. The...
View ArticleThe politics of preventing genocide
05 December 2013Nairobi: The crisis in the Central African Republic (CAR) has been deteriorating for the best part of this year. In the words of UN Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson, the...
View ArticleUN refugee chief seeks support to assist record number of internally...
13 December 2013Geneva: The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees has appealed for greater global support to assist the almost 30 million people around the world who are forcibly displaced in...
View ArticleSouth African statement to Assembly of States Parties of the ICC
19 December 2013The Hague: For many centuries, statesmen, philosophers, lawyers and theologians have struggled to address the central problem that has always confronted the international system, namely...
View ArticleNew UN ‘Rights up Front’ strategy seeks to prevent genocide, human rights abuses
19 December 2013New York: Still haunted by its failure to forestall genocide in Rwanda and Srebrenica nearly 20 years ago and confronted by ongoing bloodshed in Syria and the Central African Republic...
View ArticleCAR: UN experts urge parties to ‘pull back from the brink’ of all-out war
20 December 2013New York: A group of independent United Nations human rights experts urged all parties in the Central African Republic (CAR), where armed clashes have escalated in recent weeks leading...
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