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Press Release: Outgoing Iraqi PM responsible for refugee massacre

An independent report on the 1 September 2013 massacre at Camp Ashraf in Iraq, published on the one-year anniversary of the attack, has confirmed the suspected involvement of the government of outgoing Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. The report, which incorporates the testimonies of the 42 surviving eyewitnesses to the massacre, was compiled by the Human Security Centre (HSC), a London-based global foreign policy think tank; and the Ashraf Campaign (ASHCAM), a human rights group set up last year to advocate for Iranian refugees living in Iraq.

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The African Court of Human and Peoples’ Rights: Ten Years on and the Doors are still closed to many Africans

Ten years after its establishment in Arusha, Tanzania, the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights is still hampered by shortcomings that would render any court ineffective. Whilst the willingness to establish a human rights court on a continent victim to devastating crimes against humanity is commendable, the Court is characterised by

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The Invisible Genocide

There is a genocide happening now, a quiet genocide that very few are listening to. It is claiming the lives of the silenced, the overlooked, the defenseless. It has taken more lives than all of the genocides in the twentieth century combined. It is happening now.

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