Systematic terror, brutal atrocities rife in Myanmar: UN human rights chief

This article is published in association with United Nations. The UN’s top human rights official said on Tuesday that Myanmar is in “agonizing pain”, suffocated by an illegitimate military regime which uses “horrific war tactics” and commits brutal atrocity crimes. Addressing the Geneva-based Human Rights Council, Volker Türk, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights emphasized that […]

Forced displacement is at a record high – and so is the data we have on it

This article is brought to you thanks to the collaboration of The European Sting with the World Economic Forum. Author: Björn Gillsäter, Former Head, World Bank-UNHCR Joint Data Center on Forced Displacement In Isabel Allende’s book A Long Petal of the Sea, the main protagonist is rescued, along with 2,000 other refugees, from the Spanish Civil War on […]

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