 | EU: Five Steps to Tackle Refugee Crisis

Photo © 2015 Daniel Etter for Human Rights Watch
Europe is showing a staggering lack of political will and humanity to grapple with this refugee and migrant crisis.
The European Union and its 28 member states should act immediately to address the human rights crisis resulting from years of mismanaging migration and asylum. With a humanitarian crisis on the Greek islands, a dysfunctional asylum system in Hungary, thousands of new arrivals in need of protection, and many deaths at EU borders, bold steps are needed at an EU summit on September 14, 2015.
 | Witness: A Child Soldier’s Darfur Confession – ‘I shot her. She is dead.’
A number of battle-ready pickup trucks, some outfitted with machine guns, roared into the village of Hijer Tunjo, in southeast Darfur, on February 28, 2014. Armed men, members of the Sudanese government’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF), jumped from the vehicles and began beating civilians, looting property, and burning homes. Ibrahim (not his real name), one of the soldiers, had been recruited into the RSF right after high school, at the age of 17. A few months later he was fighting in Darfur.
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 | Mexico: Damning Report on Disappearances
On September 6, an international expert group appointed by the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights published a report refuting the official account of the fate of 43 students from a teacher’s college in Ayotzinapa, Guerrero state. The report provides an utterly damning indictment of Mexico’s handling of the worst human rights atrocity in recent memory.
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