From February 24 to March 11, 2021, witnesses told the Gambia Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission that migrants bound for Europe from Congo, Cote d’Ivoire, Ghana, Liberia, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone and Togo, plus their Gambian contact, were held by Jammeh’s top lieutenants in the security services before being murdered by the “Junglers,” a notorious paramilitary unit that took its orders directly from Jammeh.
Browsing: HUman Rights Watch
Spokesman of the Secretary-General, Stephane Dujarric, told UN correspondents in New York on Friday that the organisation was “shocked and deeply disturbed” by the footage
Amnesty International reports thrive on the common perception that state military and security authorities will always deny allegations of GVHR and War Crimes even if they were caught red-handed
Melaye in separate petitions to the United Nations (UN) Resident Representative, members of the diplomatic corps including the Ambassadors of the United States, Germany, Canada and the High Commissioner of the United Kingdom and the Amnesty International, Transparency International and the Human Rights Watch, however called on the intervention of the Inspector General of Police, members of the international Community and human rights bodies to save him from what he described as “willful, intentional harassment, oppression, political victimization and threat to life.”
The group said in its new report that the deportation defied a plea by United Nations Refugee Agency to not return anyone to north-eastern Nigeria, where Boko Haram killed thousands of people, until security and human rights situation improved considerably.
As IDP camps offer little protection to inhabitants, there is growing concern that more young girls like Sarah will be exploited, a major concern for aid organizations and for the United Nations, which is offering extensive help in the region
Duterte won the 2016 Philippine presidential election on May 9, promising to kill tens of thousands of criminals, and urging people to kill drug addicts
The HRW said poor camp conditions made the abuse easier to orchestrate
A statement issued in Abuja by Colonel Sani Usman, the acting Director of Army Public Relations, said the compulsory retirement of the senior officer was arbitrary and did not follow due process
The statement said Wakil expressed sadness on the continued killing of civilians by suspected Boko Haram sect members
The HRW publication provides details of how hundreds of girls and women aged between 15 and 22 were being made to suffer other forms of abuses and used for ambushes