A new report by Human Rights Watch titled — Untold Miseries: Wartime Abuses and Forced Displacement in Burma’s Kachin State — describes how the Burmese army has attacked Kachin villages, razed homes, pillaged properties, and forced the displacement of tens of thousands of people. Soldiers have threatened and tortured civilians during interrogations and raped women. The army has also used antipersonnel mines and conscripted forced labourers, including children, on the front lines. Continue reading
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Identify areas of opportunity and work together like never before. No mere promises from world’s top body, not anymore. Empower people to make a real difference. Let not the UN become a fiefdom of few. Continue reading
How long innocents will continue to be killed? How long the culprits will continue to be freed? A quick look as a US Marine accepts plea deal in Iraqi civilian deaths. Continue reading
Do you have an idea that could change the world? You have 30 seconds to pitch it to world leaders – Say what you want to! Enter your video in the 2011 UN Citizen Ambassadors contest and you may win a trip to New York to meet the Secretary-General. Try. Continue reading
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Revolutions aren’t pretty. The birth of democracy is never easy. The events of the past two weeks across the Middle East are of world-historic importance, and TIME is using every resource to cover them. A video post… Continue reading
