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Weekly News Roundup: Monitoring, Reporting, and Fact-finding (March 14, 2014)

Posted by hpcr on March 14, 2014  |  Commentss Comment  |  RSS Subscribe

[As part of its research and policy project on monitoring, reporting, and fact-finding, the Program on Humanitarian Policy and Conflict Research (HPCR) at Harvard University aggregates news detailing recent developments in this domain. For more information about this project, visit the project’s web page.]

  • Bernard Acho Muna, a former deputy prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, is leading a United Nations inquiry to investigate the perpetrators of the killings and other crimes in the Central African Republic. 
  • A judicial commission of inquiry in Nigeria submitted a report that addresses Alakyo communal clashes, in which over 500 individuals, including security operatives, were killed in Nasarawaa State between December 2012 and September 2013.
  • The eight-member human rights fact-finding mission from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe to Ukraine last week faced hostility from threatening crowds and had to cut short its visit.
  • A European fact-finding mission will visit Palestine and Israel this month to probe the humanitarian conditions of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli custody.
  • A five-member commission of inquiry, headed by former President Olusegun Obasanjo, has been established by the African Union to investigate human rights violations that occurred during the conflict in South Sudan in mid-December 2013.
  • Maina Kiai, Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association, and other United Nations independent experts, have requested that the Venezuelan government clarify accusations of arbitrary detention and excessive use of force and violence against journalists, the media, and protestors during recent demonstrations.
  • The Mauritanian Government has formally adopted the road map based on the formal recommendations made by Gulnara Shahinian, United Nations Special Rapporteur on slavery, and prepared in collaboration with the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.
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