non state actors

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• African non-state ethnic networks: Social capital or social liability?
  25 August 2014, by siawi3

  Examples of non-state structures and social networks that carry out political and economic tasks in DRC and Nigeria, in the absence of an effective state, suggest a more diverse and inclusive concept of shared power in African societies that goes beyond the simplistic Western conceptions of a rational state with the monopoly of power

• Central Africa: With Scant Media Attention, ’Human Catastrophe of Epic Proportions’ Unfolding
  27 November 2013, by siawi3

  The current government is backed by Seleka, an alliance of guerilla fighters from within the country and from neighboring ones. Tensions are heightened by religious differences between members of the Seleka, who are Muslims, and the predominantly Christian populace, which is increasingly defended by armed Christian groups. Since the beginning of 2013, many of the abuses of civilians, including extrajudicial killings and torture, have been carried out in Seleka-dominated territory. On the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, in the capital city, a thousand women, whose mouths were taped over in protest of violence against women, held placards reading “No to murders, torture, rape.”

• Central African Republic on the verge of genocide
  27 November 2013, by siawi3

  One of Seleka (alliance of armed groups) leaders, Michel Djotodia, declared himself president — the first Muslim to rule this majority Christian nation of 4.6 million people. In September Djotodia officially disbanded the Seleka. Many of the rebels refused to disarm and leave the militias as ordered but veered further out of control, killing, looting and burning villages. They also systematically stripped administrative offices down to the light fittings and destroyed public records. Boys and girls as young as eight are pressganged into fighting between Christians and Muslims. There are reports of beheadings and public execution-style killings. The Seleka are playing judge, jury and executioner without regard even for Djotodia.
  The US estimates that nearly 400,000 people have been displaced – many hiding in the jungle - and 68,000 have gone to neighbouring countries.

• Nigeria: Boko Haram, taking to hills, seize slave “brides”
  11 December 2013, by siawi3

  In a new development, Boko Haram is abducting Christian women whom it converts to Islam on pain of death and then forces into “marriage” with fighters. “I worry that youths will take the law into their own hands. It will become a war between Christians and Muslims.”

• USA: Prisoners Fight U.S. Over Repatriation From Guantanamo Bay: Effort to Close Prison Hits Snag as Some Detainees Resist Transfer to Home
  30 November 2013, by siawi3

  The Obama administration’s effort to close the Guantanamo Bay prison has hit a snag: detainees who don’t want to be repatriated. Some pretend fearing the state in their own countries while other declare they fear non-state actors, namely Islamist groups. Interestingly among them are Algerians: let us see what will now be the reaction of human rights organizations which failed to adequately acknowledge the responsibility in human rights violations perpetrated by Islamist armed groups non state actors against the civilian population in Algeria in the nineties.

• When women’s human rights defenders face political non-state actors
  27 January 2014, by Marieme Helie Lucas, siawi3

  There is one area that urgently needs to be addressed: when the perpetrators of violations are political non-state actors that attack women’s human rights defenders. Focusing on state accountability and due diligence alone have perilous effects on women’s human rights and on their defenders. As women human rights defenders, we have to question the hierarchy of victims and defenders that have resulted from the over emphasis on state accountability.

• Quebec : Radicalisme : le nouveau mot fourre-tout
  14 septembre 2016, par siawi3

  Force est de reconnaître que l’histoire est pleine de cas où briser la loi fut nécessaire et légitime : de la lutte à l’esclavage, à la résistance sous occupation nazie, en passant par le suffrage universel. Tous nos droits ont fait l’objet de luttes sociales et politiques et les activistes d’aujourd’hui le savent très bien.

• La Libye toujours confrontée à l’hydre terroriste
  25 décembre 2013, par siawi3

  Depuis la révolution libyenne qui a renversé le régime de Mouammar Kadhafi en 2011, la région orientale de la Libye, et en particulier Benghazi, est le théâtre d’une série d’attaques et d’assassinats : en plus des heurts entre la population et les milices armées ou salafistes, on enregistre encore des attaques terroristes contre les forces de sécurité.

• The Long War: Defending Human Rights in the Middle East
  27 August 2014, by siawi3

  Fundamentalist political groups threaten the rights of at least half of those societies in which they gain power. To blindly defend the rights of Islamists and not those whose rights they often menace is a violation in and of itself: it denies millions of victims the right of recognition of the acts perpetrated against them and their loved ones, it denies them the humanity of being acknowledged as a person whose fundamental rights were violated. That Islamists — from the most moderate to the extreme — are in need of human rights activism in the face of repressive governments is taken as a given in Western HR circles and organizations. Not so the victims of human rights violations in the name of religion, whose stories are often dismissed

• Changement de tactique d’al-Qaida
  20 janvier 2014, par siawi3

  Confrontés à la mort de leurs leaders, à l’emprisonnement de leurs commandants et à leur manque d’organisation, les affiliés d’al-Qaida élaborent une nouvelle stratégie. Les responsables de la planification des opérations terroristes ne se remplacent pas facilement, soulignent les analystes. L’organisation a donc commencé à centrer son activité sur la morale, le recrutement et les discours pour tenter de gagner à sa cause les sentiments de la jeunesse.

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