Human Security

In December 2012 in Doha, Qatar, something significant shifted in the world of climate change politics: the collection of national governments under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the body responsible for global climate governance, officially admitted our collective fa

May 12, 2013

Mr. Joseph Ole Lenku
Cabinet Secretary of Interior and Coordination of National Government
Harambee House
P.0. Box 30510-00100
Nairobi
KENYA

SUBJECT: Concern over the transfer of refugee journalists to designated areas

Incredibly contrasting and equally disturbing media operations exist in South Sudan. I have recently worked in East Africa and closely observed the ways in which the media contributes and quickly spreads deadly communal violence in South Sudan and elsewhere on the continent.

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LAGOS, NIGERIA, 30TH APRIL 2014 –Bearing in mind that in almost every conflict situation, women and children are most likely to be affected, the abduction of 234 young female students from the Government Girls Secondary School Chibok, Borno State, Nigeria, by heavily armed men suspected to be Isl

Hassan Mutabazi is one of the many Rwandan Genocide victims that gathered in a small, mud house in the village of Kabuga, Rwanda last month.

Twenty years later full light has not been thrown on the shooting down of the plane of then President of Rwanda, Habyarimana. The event was immediately followed by the genocide of the Tutsis by Hutu militias.

Twenty years since the genocide, we would have hoped that Rwanda’s post-genocide leadership had learnt very important lessons from its past dark history and established a state guided by rule of law, free of oppression and inequality, where instructions are stronger than individuals and protectio

I woke up on the morning of 7 April 1994, from a fretful slumber. I managed to walk to the gate of my house. I had to know if there were any other houses left standing. What were all of those screams I heard throughout the night? What would happen now that the President was dead?

I have many memories of Rwanda from my visit in 2010. But three stand out.