Biweekly Update 2/2/2018
Great Lakes Region Democratic Republic of the Congo In November, Air Serv mobilized to assist Doctors Without Borders’ efforts to contain the cholera outbreak in Kasai province. Kasai has been… Read more…
Great Lakes Region Democratic Republic of the Congo In November, Air Serv mobilized to assist Doctors Without Borders’ efforts to contain the cholera outbreak in Kasai province. Kasai has been… Read more…
As 2018 begins, STAND is reflecting on the challenges of the last year, which included Zimbabwe’s rapid overthrow of former President Robert Mugabe, global attention towards an economic crisis and… Read more…
Horn of Africa Somalia As the international community continues to grapple with October’s brutal terror attack in Mogadishu, the United States has steadily increased its provision of military aid to… Read more…
Southeast Asia Burma Earlier this week ,the U.S. announced that they will withdraw their assistance from Burmese units and officers involved in the violence against the Rohingya. Secretary of State… Read more…
STAND’s Weekly News Briefs are compiled weekly by members of the STAND Education Task Force. Horn of Africa The Horn of Africa region encompasses the countries of Ethiopia, Somalia, Djibouti,… Read more…
The Rohingya are considered the world’s most persecuted minority. They are an ethnic group made up of mostly Muslims and some Hindus and have lived in Rakhine State even before… Read more…
The United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) says that while there are 65.6 million displaced people in the world, ten million of them are stateless people. According to UNHRC, a stateless… Read more…
Aung San Suu Kyi, Burma’s de facto head of state whose nonviolent struggles for democracy and human rights in Burma won her the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991, continues to… Read more…
On August 25, militants from the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA), previously known as Harakah al-Yaqin, or “Faith Movement,” initiated a major counteroffensive in Rakhine state against 24 police posts… Read more…
On August 28, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson informed Congress that a majority of special envoy positions will be abolished or reorganized as part of efforts to restructure the State… Read more…