The United Nations’ International Organization for Migration (IOM) said Thursday that at least 74 migrants have died in a shipwreck off the Libyan coast. The IOM said the Libyan coast guard and fishermen rescued 47 people and brought them ashore. The boat was transporting more than 120 migrants, including children, when it capsized off the […]
Continue ReadingA new report Thursday from Amnesty International said scores of civilians were killed in the Tigray region of Ethiopia earlier this week. “We have confirmed the massacre of a very large number of civilians who appear to have been day laborers, in no way involved in the ongoing military offensive,” Deprose Muchena, Amnesty International director […]
Continue ReadingSECTION ONE: INTRODUCTION RATIONALE (WHY THIS NOTE?) At least 200 million girls and women worldwide have undergone female genital mutilation (FGM), and more than four million girls are at risk annually. Recognized internationally as a violation of girls’ and women’s human rights, FGM has multiple negative consequences in the lives of girls and women, including […]
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