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Accord Insight 3 Project - Reconciliation and Peace Processes Issue Editor
22 May 2015
Conciliation Resources is recruiting a Specialist Editor to work on the third Insight project and publication in our Accord series. This will inform practical learning of how reconciliation can support inclusive peace processes.
Veto reform - Report and WFM Views on ACT non-paper
21 May 2015
The World Federalist Movement-Institute for Global Policy (WFM-IGP) helped organize a meeting on April 30 between civil society organizations and the ACT (Accountability, Coherence, Transparency) subgroup on the Veto to discuss the "(Draft) Non-Paper on a Code of Conduct regarding Security...
On the situation in Yarmouk, Syria, Apr 2015
13 Apr 2015
(New York, 09 April 2015) The Special Advisers of the Secretary-General on the Prevention of Genocide, Adama Dieng, and on the Responsibility to Protect, Jennifer Welsh, express deep concern about the deteriorating situation of besieged civilian populations in Yarmouk, where more than 18,000...
On the situation in Yemen, Apr 2015
13 Apr 2015
(New York, - 9 April 2015) The Special Advisers of the Secretary-General on the Prevention of Genocide, Adama Dieng, and on the Responsibility to Protect, Jennifer Welsh, expressed concern at the dramatic and deteriorating situation in Yemen.
Felistas Mushi
9 Apr 2015
Ms. Felistas Mushi, a former Resident Magistrate in Tanzania and a former Assistant Trial Attorney for the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal, made a speech at the Regional Committee and National Committee meeting of the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR) on 9...
Can Atrocities be Prevented?
1 Apr 2015
On February 5, 2015, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum held a public program titled, “Can Atrocities be Prevented? Living in the Shadow of the Holocaust” with Keynote speaker, Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, the newly appointed United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. Al Hussein’s...
Update on recent activities on behalf of GAAMAC
10 Nov 2014
Following the GAAMAC meeting of March 2014 in San José, Costa Rica, a video/telephone conference was convened between the six GAAMAC partner states, on October 10, 2014, in order to have an exchange on the developments since March, and to discuss and plan the next steps emanating from the final...