The M23 group is one of about 100 armed factions vying for a foothold ineastern Congo, where a decades-long conflict has raged. The group, made up primarily of ethnic Tutsis who failed to integrate into the Congolese army, led a failed insurgency against the ...
根据第一段 “Jeremiah saw with his own eyes how, in addition to the smog making breathing problems common, his young contemporaries fell behind in their schoolwork because of a lack of decent lighting.( Jeremiah 亲眼看到,除了烟雾使呼吸问题变得常见之外, 他的同龄人由于缺乏良好的照明而在学业上...
The Central African Republic is a country in Central Africa. It is bordered by Sudan, South Sudan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Republic of the Congo, Chad, and Cameroon. This country is home to almost 4.7 million inhabitants....
The pact has already been called out by more than 50 non-profit organisations which claim it is prioritising "detention camps, fences and deportations to unsafe third countries… at the expense of human rights". Meanwhile, European Parliament elections in June increase the pressure aroun...
But under Clinton's watch there was another conflict, in 1994, in the tiny African nation of Rwanda, where millions of people did become refugees and 800,000 people were killed in less than two months. Similar to Syria, there was a bi-partisan push by some Senators and human ...
9.1K The United Nations (UN) is an international organization tasked with assisting in international peace, often settling disputes between nation-states and preventing larger conflict. Learn the history of the UN's inception and the scope and structure in which they operate today. Related...
So, too, is climate change, human rights, gender equality, even conflict. We found ourselves shoulder to shoulder with people who are passionate about targeting all these interrelated issues. 00:00 But how did we actually go about recruiting and engaging those global citize...
Complicating this further is a lack of overarching policies or strategies for harnessing AI’s immense benefits—and regulating its downsides. While there are various draft policy documents, researchers are in conflict over a continent-wide strategy. And they disagree about which policies would most ...
numerous factors have contributed to the incapacity of extended families to take on traditional caretaking responsibilities including: the HIV/AIDS epidemic, poverty, political and economic instability, armed conflict, urbanization, and shifting traditional social-cultural values (Abebe & Aase, 2007; Foste...
As Amanpour points out, journalists are often “on the cutting edge of reform,” so if they fail to shed light on events, the results can be tragic. One of her biggest regrets was not covering the genocide in Rwanda in 1994, which cost nearly a million lives. She said the media ignore...