When pursuing human rights involves distortion and slander. Tue May 11, 2021 When Robert Bernstein, Aryeh Neier, and Jeri Laber founded Human Rights Watch (HRW) in 1978, they did not contemplate that the Jewish state would become its target for de-legitimization and abuse. At the time of its establishment, not long after the Helsinki Accords were signed that included the signatories from the “Iron Curtain,” the ostensible focus was to report on the abuses of human rights in Soviet bloc countries. The idealistic founders were committed to shed light on the darkest corners of humanity. In subsequent decades, HRW grew antagonistic toward free countries, and especially Israel. On October 20, 2009, HRW founder Robert Bernstein wrote an opinion piece in the
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(Photo : Getty Images/Mass Communications Specialist 1st Class Cassandra Thompson) GULF OF ADEN- MARCH 31: (EDITORS NOTE: IMAGE RELEASED BY U.S. MILITARY) In this handout from the U.S. Navy, Members of the U.S. Coast Guard Law Enforcement Detachment and Combined Task Force 151 s visit board search and seizure team, on board the Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer USS Farragut (DDG 99) prepares to search a dhow March 31, 2010 in the Gulf of Aden. USS Farragut is part of Combined Task Force 151, a multinational task force established to conduct anti-piracy operations in the Gulf of Aden.
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Cases were reported in Nigeria, in several other African countries and in countries as far – away as the United States of America and in Europe. At the time, I was the President of the Republic of Sierra Leone and I had the difficult task of dealing with an extremely infectious disease unknown to us and many around the world. The situation in all sectors was as grim as it could get. Even the World Health Organisation (WHO) was at pains to fully grasp the unfolding calamity. Within a year, Ebola threatened the peace and security of the three most affected countries, and devastated their economies. Sierra Leone, which experienced a 15% economic growth in 2014, and once reckoned as the fastest growing economy in Africa, slumped to -21%.
In 1996 ACCORD worked extensively with women in the Sudan in a three-phase project of conflict management training for Sudanese women conducted by UNIFEM, Ahfad University and ACCORD. Additionally, ACCORD was also involved in a UNIFEM sponsored training project with women from Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia and Djibouti. The women have become fully-fledged conflict resolution trainers in their own countries, for building capacity and African empowerment in the field of conflict resolution.
ACCORD organised a South African study tour for Burundian and Rwandese Women Parliamentarians in July 1998. The women were trained in Conflict Prevention and Multi-track Diplomacy. The women were leaders involved in the peace process in Burundi. The study tour prepared the women as facilitators to intervene in the on-going conflict in Burundi, and how to mainstream their political potentials in the government of Burundi. Evaluation revealed that the training assisted participants to work and cooperate
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As we enter the next decade of the women, peace and security agenda examining relevant research and focusing on the participation of women in peacebuilding efforts is important
Introduction
The year 2020 marked the 20
th anniversary of the unanimous adoption of the United Nations (UN) Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security; 25 years since the World Conference on Women in Beijing; and the conclusion of the African Women’s Decade. Since 2000, the UN has adopted 10 subsequent resolutions and several strategies under the normative framework of the women, peace and security (WPS) agenda. On the African continent, the African Union (AU) and its member states have promoted the WPS agenda through several legal guidelines, training manuals and normative frameworks, including Aspiration 6 of Agenda 2063, the Solemn Declaration on Gender Equality in Africa (2004), The Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Wom