From: Human Rights Watch
“I don’t feel safe at all,” one Mosul resident told Human Rights Watch. “I fear ISIS, they might kill me for any reason: because I worked as a government employee … if they notice that I don’t go to the mosque and pray as they want everyone to, [or] if my beard isn’t long enough.”
The Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham (ISIS) forces have taken over many areas of Iraq, including Mosul. Human Rights Watch has previously documented crimes committed by ISIS in other areas of Iraq and Syria, including car and suicide bomb attacks in civilian areas, summary executions, torture in detention, discrimination against women, and destruction of religious property. We have found that some of these acts may amount to crimes against humanity.
The possibility that ISIS will repeat the atrocities it has committed in other parts of Iraq, and impose the same intolerant and abusive rule as it has in Syria, is deeply troubling.
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Africa Congolese Warlord to Go to Trial
Three pre-trial judges at the International Criminal Court unanimously found substantial grounds to believe that Ntaganda committed war crimes and crimes against humanity including murder and attempted murder, attacks against the civilian population, rape and sexual slavery, pillaging, and persecution in northeastern Congo’s Ituri district in 2002 and 2003.
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ASIA Thailand Should Stop Secret Military Detentions
The Thai junta’s detentions are exacerbated by holding people in secret. Anyone held without being charged with a credible offense should be freed immediately.
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USA
Dispatches: US Finally Addresses Climate Change
By Jane Cohen
It’s easy to get depressed working on the nexus of human rights and the environment, as it always seems like things are getting worse. But after years of foot-dragging on climate change, the US has finally taken a first step to start becoming a leader on addressing the crisis – something it could have done sooner.
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Global Summit Spotlights Rape in War
A London Summit on Ending Sexual Violence in Conflict is currently underway. Governments should use the summit, ending tomorrow, to make strong public commitments to end impunity for sexual violence, assist survivors, and prevent further rapes.
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Africa Congolese Warlord to Go to Trial
Three pre-trial judges at the International Criminal Court unanimously found substantial grounds to believe that Ntaganda committed war crimes and crimes against humanity including murder and attempted murder, attacks against the civilian population, rape and sexual slavery, pillaging, and persecution in northeastern Congo’s Ituri district in 2002 and 2003.
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