Last month, the DC-based World Affairs Councils of America spoke to Libyan political official Mohammed Ali Abdallah about the country's struggle with coronavirus amid a brutal civil war. Residents of Tripoli, Libya’s capital, are living in the middle of a civil war...
Campaign to Stop Killer Robots Just Faced a Serious Set Back
The Campaign to Stop Killer Robots (SKR) is a non-profit organization comprised of groups like Human Rights Watch, Mines Action Canada, Nobel Women's Initiative, International Committee for Robots Arm Control, among others whose sole purpose is to "preemptively ban...
Seeking Refuge: An RVA Mag Documentary Series on Syrian Refugees
Syria is the great humanitarian disaster of our generation. According to Human Rights Watch's World Report for 2017, almost 500,000 civilians have been killed with another 100,000 detained or disappeared since the start of the civil conflict in 2011. The majority of...
UN asks Gov. McAuliffe to grant clemency for mentally ill man set for execution today
Two United Nations (UN) human rights officials have asked Gov. Terry McAuliffe to halt today's execution by lethal injection of William C. Morva, 35, a US Hungarian national. In 2006 after being held at the Montgomery County Jail on robbery charges, Morva injured...
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