R2P Monitor is a bimonthly bulletin applying the atrocity prevention lens to populations at risk of mass atrocities around the world. Issue 54 looks at developments in Afghanistan, Cameroon, China,...
HUNDREDS KILLED AS ETHIOPIA EDGES TOWARDS CIVIL WAR On 4 November Ethiopia’s federal government launched a military offensive against the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), the ruling party in...
DISPUTED ELECTION IN CÔTE D’IVOIRE RESULTS IN DEADLY VIOLENCE On 31 October Côte d’Ivoire held presidential elections. According to local authorities, election-day clashes involving political...
On Saturday, 24 October, a group of unidentified armed men attacked the Mother Francisca International Bilingual Academy in Kumba, south-west Cameroon, shooting and killing at least eight children...
VIOLENT CRACKDOWN ON #ENDSARS PROTESTS IN NIGERIA Demonstrations against police brutality and poor governance in Nigeria have resulted in several deaths after security forces opened fire at a...
The Honorable Michael R. Pompeo Secretary of State U.S. Department of State 2201 C Street NW Washington, D.C. 20520 Dear Secretary Pompeo, We write to you as 35 organizations deeply concerned about...
Starvation as a weapon of war in South Sudan Last Tuesday, 6 October, the Commission on Human Rights (CoHR) in South Sudan released a report alleging that government troops and armed opposition...
Today, 13 October, the UN General Assembly elected Bolivia, China, Côte d’Ivoire, Cuba, France, Gabon, Malawi, Mexico, Nepal, Pakistan, Russia, Senegal, Ukraine, United Kingdom and Uzbekistan to the...
Since armed hostilities between Azerbaijan and Armenia escalated in the Nagorno-Karabakh region on 27 September, there have been widespread reports of forces indiscriminately shelling and using other...
On 24 September the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) issued two major reports, one examining the detention system in China’s Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region (XUAR), where an estimated...