Female Rohingya Refugees in Bangladesh Are Suffering the Consequences of Trump’s Decision to Defund a Key UN Agency Kimberly Curtis November 22, 2017 As thousands of Rohingya continue to flee Myanmar in the fastest growing humanitarian crisis in the world, the focus of aid groups is shifting to the conditions facing refugees in the crowded camps of Cox’s Baz...
The Kenya Election Crisis, Explained Kimberly Curtis November 8, 2017 Last week Kenyan election officials announced that President Uhuru Kenyatta won re-election in a landslide vote. But rather than marking an ending to a particularly tumultuous chapter in Kenya’s electoral histo...
New Evidence Suggests that What’s Happening in Myanmar is no longer a “potential” genocide. It’s the real thing Kimberly Curtis October 17, 2017 A recent report by the UN Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights (OHCHR) details the brutal treatment of the Rohingya by the Myanmar military and armed gangs. More than half a million Rohingya have fle...
The World is Sidestepping the International Criminal Court to “Investigate” War Crimes in Yemen and Iraq? Kimberly Curtis October 11, 2017 Yemen and ISIS's crimes in Iraq are two of the most dire human rights situations in the world right now. There is plenty of evidence of war crimes and crimes against humanity, and under normal circumstances the...
This is How a Mudslide Can Kill So Many People in Sierra Leone Kimberly Curtis August 15, 2017 Rainy season is currently upon Sierra Leone but this year the rains brought more than the country can handle. Heavy rains over the weekend around the capitol Freetown resulted in flash flooding and several maj...
Elections in Kenya Have Everyone Worrying About the Prospects of Violence Kimberly Curtis August 7, 2017 Last week, a top election official in Kenya went missing. Days later, his tortured and murdered body was discovered. Chris Msando was the IT manager for the country's independent election commission in charge o...
“Fake News” is Shaping Hotly Contested Elections in Kenya. The Results Could Be Deadly Kimberly Curtis August 2, 2017 “Fake news” is not a new concept anywhere in the world but in the run up to the highly competitive Kenyan elections next week, the rise of fake news is fueling fears that it could exacerbate an already tense si...
The Tangled Politics of Search and Rescue Operations in the Mediterranean Kimberly Curtis July 21, 2017 Since the early 1990s, North Africa has served as a jumping point for migrants trying to reach Europe. Then, as now, these are mixed migration routes where refugees and asylum seekers travel side by side with m...
Can this Woman Bring Justice to Syria? Kimberly Curtis July 7, 2017 Six years in, the conflict in Syria is synonymous now with the brutality of war. Currently, there are more than 5.1 million registered Syrian refugees with another 6.3 million Syrians displaced within the count...
