This is what leadership looks like: Meet Fanta Diamande, a local peace mediator in Côte d Ivoire Fanta Diamande, a 32-year-old community leader from northern Côte d Ivoire, has been involved in the UN Women-supported Network of Women Peace Mediators since its beginning. Today, she is President of its Touba branch and a trainer for early warning monitors, who will flag election-related risks ahead of the parliamentary elections on 6 March. Date: Wednesday, March 10, 2021
Fanta Diamande is a member of the Network of Women Peace Mediators in Côte d Ivoire. Photo: UN Women/Irad Gbazale
“I became interested in becoming more active in my community after the political crisis of 2011. … I could see how violence and conflict affected women much more than men,” says Diamande.
مندوب مصر الدائم في جنيف يلتقي المفوضة السامية لحقوق الإنسان
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اخبار الحوادث جمال الدين: حريصون على اتباع نهج تشاركي لصياغة استراتيجية حقوق الإنسان
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Egypt: Sentencing of human rights defender Sanaa Seif
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Unlawful Nature of North Sinai Demolitions
Forced evictions or transfers of a civilian population on the one hand and home demolitions and dispossession of private property on the other are related but distinctive issues. International human rights law and international humanitarian law generally prohibit both when imposed by state authorities, except as measures of last resort to protect civilians or for “absolute” military necessity. Human Rights Watch has previously described how the situation in North Sinai since 2014 amounts to a non-international armed conflict, to which laws of war apply. Hostilities at an intense level beyond sporadic disturbances have continued for years. The government has mobilized tens of thousands of troops, including infantry, air, and naval forces, and all parties to the conflict have organized command structures. Ordering unlawful forcible displacement of civilian populations and the extensive seizure and destruction of their homes and farms can