Weekly News Brief: 10/18/2016
STAND’s Weekly News Briefs are compiled weekly by members of the STAND Education Task Force. This week’s news brief highlights continued air strikes on civilian targets in Syria, an… Read more…
STAND’s Weekly News Briefs are compiled weekly by members of the STAND Education Task Force. This week’s news brief highlights continued air strikes on civilian targets in Syria, an… Read more…
Less than one hundred days after Burma’s democratically elected government took office, the US State Department declared that it would put the country on its list of worst human trafficking… Read more…
Ummmm…what executive order, exactly? On May 18, President Obama issued Executive Order (EO) 13729, “A Comprehensive Approach to Atrocity Prevention and Response.” The EO is an important step in institutionalizing… Read more…
On November 30th 2015, the Burma Army released an additional 53 child soldiers to the 156 they have already released in 2015. Renata Lok-Dessallien, the U.N. Resident and Humanitarian coordinator,… Read more…
A Semester in Review Many of STAND’s conflict zones have been witness to progress towards peace; the first democratic elections in Burma were held in November, a ceasefire was declared… Read more…
Great Lakes of Africa: Burundi Lindah Mogeni President Nkurunziza’s government has expressed dissent over the African Union’s December 18 decision to deploy a 5000-strong African Prevention and Protection Mission (MAPROBU)… Read more…
Central and West Africa: Central African Republic Ruhi Bhaidani Recent violence in Batangafo, Ouham Province has left property damaged, 10 people killed and many others injured. Batangafo hosts the Central… Read more…
Great Lakes of Africa: Burundi & Democratic Republic of the Congo Lindah Mogeni Bujumbura has witnessed a few days of calm since the forced disarmament and weapons seizure wherein 50… Read more…
The State Sangha Maha Nayaka Committee (a governing body of Buddhist monks founded by the Burmese junta in the 1960s to monitor activities of Buddhist monks involved in democratic movements)… Read more…
Great Lakes of Africa: Burundi Lindah Mogeni The most recent outburst of violence in Burundi resulted in the deaths of nine people shot dead by an unknown gunman at a… Read more…