It’s just after midday when men gather in a crowded mosque in northeastern Nigeria for Friday prayer. Just down the emptied road, a young girl of about fifteen walks forward. Trembling, she approaches her instructed destination – the mosque. She…
On June 15, 2017, the Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Court (ICC) unanimously affirmed the court’s power to bring charges against Bosco Ntaganda for war crimes of rape and sexual slavery committed against child soldiers. Ntaganda served as a…
For the hundreds of thousands of people living in Kenya’s Dadaab Refugee Camp, the largest refugee camp in the world, life is in a never-ending state of flux. To the majority-Somali population at the camps, the Kenyan government has made…
In 2016, new reports of United Nations (UN) Peacekeeper exploitation of children in the Central African Republic (CAR) emerged in the media. The UN Independent Review on Sexual Exploitation and Abuse issued its Report of an Independent Review on Sexual…
Reuters has described the displacement of 2.3 million in the Lake Chad Basin as “the most neglected crisis of 2016.” Simon Brooks, head of International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)’s delegation in Cameroon, states that the region “has suffered…