Human rights lawyers accuse the Mexican government of noncompliance with recent Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACtHR) rulings in the cases of Inés Fernández Ortega and Valentina Rosendo Cantú, indigenous women who were raped by soldiers in separate incidents in Guerrero in 2002. In a press conference last week, the lawyers who represent the women 
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February | 2011
Victims’ Lawyers: Mexico “Unwilling to Comply” With International Court Sentences in Military Rape Cases
By: Kristin Bricker | Tuesday, February 22nd, 2011US “SSR” Assistance in Egypt: What’s in a Name?
By: Geoff Burt | Thursday, February 17th, 2011A consistent feature of US foreign policy in the last three decades has been very high levels of military assistance to Egypt. Overall US foreign assistance to Egypt has averaged slightly more than $2 billion each year since Egypt signed the Camp David Peace Accords in 1979, with military aid adding up to $40 billion
Will assassination in Juba threaten openness, accessibility of new GoSS?
By: Aly Verjee | Friday, February 11th, 2011Jimmy Lemi Milla Joko, Minister of Cooperatives and Rural Development and Member of the Southern Sudan Legislative Assembly for Lainya, Central Equatoria, was assassinated in his ministerial office in Juba on February 9th. It does seem that the alleged assassin, Lemi’s brother-in-law and former personal driver, likely acted with “no political motivation whatsoever,” as the
Southern Sudan’s new air force: nucleus of a modern military?
By: Aly Verjee | Tuesday, February 1st, 2011January in Sudan was dominated by anticipation for and the conduct of Southern Sudan’s self-determination referendum, with approximately 4 million voters going to the polls to choose whether to split Africa’s largest country. Provisional results show an overwhelming vote for an independent Southern Sudan, which will likely become Africa’s 55th sovereign state on July 9,
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