February 12, 2016

Proposal for first binding limits on airlines’ carbon emissions

Ban welcomes proposal for first binding limits on airlines’ carbon emissions – Welcoming a proposal by the United Nation’s International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) on the first […]
February 12, 2016

Teenager tores off Boko Haram suicide vest and fled

  Teenager seized for Boko Haram attack tells how she tore off suicide vest and fled – Girl feared going against orders but was even more afraid […]
February 12, 2016

Defence lawyers sums up in Hissène Habré war crimes trial

Defence lawyers begin summing up Hissène Habré war crimes trial – The trial of Chad’s former president for war crimes, crimes against humanity and torture has reached […]
February 12, 2016

Rebecca Masika Katsuva obituary

Rebecca Masika Katsuva obituary – Congolese human rights campaigner who set up refuge centres and an organisation to help the victims of war and rape The Congolese […]
February 12, 2016

Mandela’s rainbow nation has gone from hero to zero

  Mandela’s rainbow nation has gone from hero to zero. Can it reclaim his legacy? – Last year I was awarded South Africa’s highest honour – the […]
February 12, 2016

Zainab Hawa Bangura on Sexual Violence in Conflict

Interview with Zainab Hawa Bangura, Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict –  Sexual violence is being used as a “tactic of terror” […]
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