December 20, 2015 State Dept, Pentagon push back on reports of US-trained fighters being abducted, killed in Syria The State Department and Pentagon pushed back Friday on claims made by multiple media outlets that the leader of a U.S.-backed Syrian rebel group and as many as 60 other fighters under him were abducted and killed by al-Nusra, an Al Qaeda offshoot operating in that country.
December 20, 2015 Kerry: Captive Americans raised at all meetings with Iran Secretary of State John Kerry says there was "not one meeting that took place" during the recent Iranian nuclear talks at which the U.S. didn't raise the issue of four Americans still held captive by Tehran.
December 20, 2015 Bangladesh bans Islamist group accused of killing bloggers Bangladesh has banned a radical Islamist group accused of attacking and killing atheist bloggers and writers.
December 20, 2015 Congress sends anti-trafficking bill to Obama The House approved long-awaited legislation on Tuesday to combat human trafficking, sending it to President Obama for his signature.
December 11, 2015 Sex and UN peacekeepers: Tens of thousands of Liberian women involved? EXCLUSIVE: A study cited in a just-published evaluation of the ugly problem of sexual exploitation by U.N. peacekeepers calculates that as many as 58,000 women in Monrovia, Liberia, alone engaged in prohibited “transactional” sex with peacekeepers in return for food, clothing, money or other favors—mostly money-- over a nine-year period ending in 2012.
December 10, 2015 UN peacekeeping and rape: getting better—or worse? Even as United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon claims victory in the battle against sexual abuse by members of U.N. peacekeeping missions, a leaked U.N. internal report charges that peacekeepers are likely under-reporting sex crimes and exploitation, taking too long to investigate them, and clinging to a “culture of impunity” that bolsters sexual misdeeds.
December 8, 2015 UN witness suddenly goes public in Central African peacekeeper sex scandal A self-described United Nations whistle-blower has appeared -- very briefly -- with new revelations in the scandal over sexual abuse of children by non-U.N. peacekeepers in the Central African Republic.
December 5, 2015 Kim regime expands secret prison camp for women forcibly returned from China The communist regime in North Korea has been expanding space for women in its notorious prison labor camps to accommodate the number of Koreans forcibly returned from China, where they had sought the economic means to survive.
December 3, 2015 Former US judge on 'one-sided' UN Gaza inquiry headed previous probe that criticized Israel A former New York State Supreme Court judge who replaced George Clooney’s fiancé on the latest United Nations-sponsored inquiry into human rights violations in Gaza once chaired another U.N. committee that harshly criticized Israeli for a previous military operation into the Hamas-controlled territory.
November 2, 2015 African troops involved with French in UN rape report scandal EXCLUSIVE: Troops from Chad and Equatorial Guinea, as well as French soldiers, were involved in the rape and sexual abuse of starving children in the Central African Republic between December 2013 and June 2014, according to the woman who handed over to the press a confidential United Nations investigation on the incidents.