Section: US & Canada
We Met The Young Hustlers Cashing In On Cuba’s Booming Black Market
Sofa’s living room is covered in clothes. Stacks of t-shirts and shorts line a faded plaid couch. Dresses are strewn across the counter, and an armchair cradles a small mountain of shoes. You can’t see the floor.The 30-year-old sits cross-legged amidst the merchandise, methodically folding a pile of baby clothes. She holds up a...
UN report blasts both sides in Ukraine conflict
A report from the United Nations’ human rights arm has strongly criticized both sides in Ukraine’s fighting for the killing of civilians in indiscriminate shelling, as well as summary executions of both combatants and civilians. … Click to Continue » …read more Source: The Bellingham...
UN Report Blasts Both Sides in Ukraine Conflict
A report from the United Nations’ human rights arm is strongly criticizing both sides in Ukraine’s fighting for the killing of civilians in indiscriminate shelling, as well as summary executions of both combatants and civilians …read more Source: ABC...
‘I’m Not Afraid’: Online Revelations Of Sexual Violence Spark Debate In Russia
All this month, women in Ukraine, Russia, and other countries have been posting stories of the sexual violence they have endured. In Russia, the harrowing accounts of what comes across as pervasive harassment and abuse have provoked a wide-ranging social self-examination that seems unwelcome to the ruling political and religious elites....
UN: Civilians in E. Ukraine Conflict Killed With ‘Rampant Impunity’
The conflict in eastern Ukraine has claimed civilian lives with “rampant impunity” in what may have constituted “war crimes” and crimes against humanity, according to a U.N. report. The U.N. Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine says very limited accountability that has taken place, since fighting began in 2014 in the Donbas region...
Ukraine Has Found the Weapon Used in the ‘Maidan Massacre’
Ukraine claims it has found the sniper rifle allegedly used by deposed President Viktor Yanukouvych’s security forces to kill over 100 protesters in 2014. The event, known as the Maidan Massacre, marked for many the tipping point in the standoff between the pro-European protesters in Kiev’s Independence Square (Maidan Nezalezhnosti)...
UN report blasts both sides in Ukraine conflict
A report from the United Nations’ human rights arm has strongly criticized both sides in Ukraine’s fighting for the killing of civilians in indiscriminate shelling, as well as summary executions of both combatants and civilians. …read more Source: FOX...
UN report blasts both sides in Ukraine conflict
MOSCOW (AP) — A report from the United Nations’ human rights arm has strongly criticized both sides in Ukraine’s fighting for the killing of civilians in indiscriminate shelling, as well as summary executions of both combatants and civilians. …read more Source: San Francisco...
UN report blasts both sides in Ukraine conflict
MOSCOW (AP) — A report from the United Nations' human rights arm has strongly criticized both sides in Ukraine's fighting for the killing of civilians in indiscriminate shelling, as well as summary executions of both combatants and civilians…. …read more Source: Associated...
UN report blasts both sides in Ukraine conflict
MOSCOW (AP) — A report from the United Nations’ human rights arm has strongly criticized both sides in Ukraine’s fighting for the killing of civilians in indiscriminate shelling, as well as summary executions of both combatants and civilians. The report released Thursday by the U.N.’s High Commissioner for Human Rights office...
