News Roundup 6 September – 12 September
France: Lafarge loses ruling in Syria crime against humanity case
Lafarge case uncovers French duplicity, hypocrisy, says analyst
Military Faction Stages Coup in Mineral-Rich Guinea
Myanmar’s Shadow Government Announces ‘Defensive War’
Human Rights abuses intensifying in eastern DR Congo – UNHCR
Violence Against Civilians in Eastern DRC Reaching New Heights, UN Says
Yemen: As conflict drags on, ‘no quick wins’ – UN envoy
UN: 18,000 Yemeni civilians killed in airstrikes since 2015
CAR Court Accuses Ex-warlord of Crimes Against Humanity
Syrian military groups operating under Turkey-backed SNA merge
News Roundup 30 August – 5 September
Security Council urges Taliban to provide safe passage out of Afghanistan
White House: Biden told commanders to ‘stop at nothing’ to go after ISIS
Worst Tripoli fighting in a year tests Libya ceasefire
Israel-Palestine: Waste no opportunity for ‘serious’ political negotiation, envoy urges
Tigray aid situation worsening by the day, warn UN humanitarians
Pakistani soldiers killed in cross border fire from Afghanistan
What Nigerians displaced by Boko Haram say about living with ex-fighters
Syrian army bombards rebels in birthplace of uprising – residents
Five years on, Colombia’s coca regions remain at war and distrust is growing
Myanmar’s Opposition Is Forming Fragile Alliances With Armed Ethnic Groups
News Roundup 23 August – 29 August
Chad Rebel Group FACT Says It’s Willing to Join National Dialogue
Biden promises further strikes on Afghan militant groups
Pioneering report continues to help children survive conflict
No end to Yemen civil war on the horizon, senior UN official briefs Security Council
No strings attached? How Europe’s military support for Mali closes its eyes to abuses
Fighting, flooding, and donor fatigue: Unpacking South Sudan’s food crisis
Taliban retakes power, but it faces mounting challenges ahead
‘Resistance is still alive’: armed groups drive out Taliban fighters
News Roundup 16 August – 22 August
Report details grave violations against children in Afghanistan
‘No way out’ for imperilled Afghans, broader international response needed
Ethiopia: UN chief gravely concerned over ‘unspeakable violence’ in Tigray
Competing armed groups carrying out ‘mass rape’ in Congo: UN
Despite Cease-Fire in Tigray, No End in Sight for Conflict
1,150 flee Colombia village caught between 2 armed groups
EXCLUSIVE: Nigeria’s secret programme to lure top Boko Haram defectors
Afghanistan: ‘Now is the time to stand as one’, UN chief tells Security Council
Palestine refugees face ‘dire’ humanitarian conditions amid ongoing clashes in southern Syria: UNRWA
News Roundup 9 August – 15 August
Over 18,000 children recruited by Colombia’s FARC rebels -court
Mali: Dozens of civilians massacred in militant raids on villages
Chad invites armed groups to participate in national dialogue
Mozambique Government Retakes Key Town from Militants
Damascus’s False Reconciliation Failed in Daraa
Ethiopia denounces rebel alliance as war widens
Palestinian Rockets in May Killed Civilians in Israel, Gaza
Myanmar army attacks medics, hampering COVID response, rights groups say
UNHCR gravely concerned about systematic sexual violence in DR Congo’s Tanganyika Province
Afghan leader rallies forces in Taliban-besieged northern city
News Roundup 2 August – 8 August
Civilians in southern Syria ‘under siege’ – UN human rights chief
Ethiopia conflict set to escalate after Tigray rebels refuse to withdraw
‘With our hearts beating fast’: Back to school on the Nagorno-Karabakh front line
700-plus healthcare workers and patients killed in attacks on facilities: WHO
Colombia’s ex-armed group leaders apologise for war atrocities
UN chief underlines commitment to justice for Yazidis in Iraq
Afghanistan: UN mission demands end to fighting as Taliban advance
Militant groups recruiting child fighters in Burkina Faso – Report
News Roundup 26 July – 1 August
Israel appears to have committed war crimes in May conflict with Hamas, Human Rights Watch says
HRW calls for ICC inquiry into war crimes in Gaza, urges US to condition assistance to Israel
U.S. calls for halt to violence against Eritreans in Tigray
Mozambique: fears of escalating conflict as foreign troops clash with Islamists
Taliban victory in Afghanistan could inspire terrorists, armed groups throughout Middle East
In conflict-ridden CAR, act locally for smart peace
Biden Administration’s First Syrian Sanctions Target Prisons, Two Armed Opposition Groups
Afghanistan: Record number of women and children killed or wounded
There’s nothing neutral about engaging with Myanmar’s military
David and Goliath: Myanmar’s Armed Resistance at the Crossroads
News Roundup 19 July – 25 July
Sudan’s Darfur conflict’s latest surge in violence displaces thousands
Ethiopia’s Tigray forces say they freed 1,000 captured soldiers
Gang violence and security vacuum in Haiti thwart aid delivery
Venezuela, the International Criminal Court, and Impunity
Iraq: Bomb attack on eve of Eid al-Adha, ‘terrorism knows no bounds’
Taliban seek to cut off Afghan population centres: Top US general
FROM THE FIELD: A genocide timeline; Srebrenica massacre remembered
News Roundup 12 July – 18 July
Aid access to Tigray remains stalled, despite ceasefire
UN appeals for faster passage for aid convoys to Ethiopia’s Tigray
Afghanistan stunned by scale and speed of security forces’ collapse
Afghanistan on brink of humanitarian crisis-UN refugee agency
U.S. condemns retaliatory attacks against civilians in Ethiopia’s Tigray region
EU agrees to send military training mission to Mozambique
Colombia peace process at critical juncture: UN envoy
Colombia’s ‘ghost towns’ threatened by new wave of violence
Attacks by armed group displace 20,000 civilians in eastern DRC
U.S. Slows Anti-Terrorist Campaign in Somalia as It Considers New Policy
The Generating Respect Project invites paper submissions for the conference Religious Actors & Humanitarian Norms Compliance in Armed Conflict: Roles, Influence, Engagement that will take place online between 8 and 10 December 2021.
The conference will take stock of important developments relating to the engagement between humanitarians and religious actors aimed at generating greater respect for humanitarian norms in times of armed conflict. It seeks to serve as a platform for exchange and reflection among scholars from across various disciplines, humanitarian practitioners, and religious actors.
The call for papers provides information about the thematic foci of the conference, its format, guidelines and deadlines for submission of abstracts and selected papers, and publication plans.
Please submit paper abstract of up to 500 words & a short CV with your current affiliation to [email protected] by 1 September 2021.