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London/Geneva, 12 April 2013 – A Declaration on Preventing Sexual Violence in Conflict was agreed yesterday by the G8 countries, declaring that rape and other serious sexual violence amount to war crimes and grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions.

New report, involving 25 authors from 11 countries, reveals the hidden scandal of how just three per cent of landowners have come to control half of all farmed land in Europe. This massive concentration of land ownership and wealth is on a par with Brazil, Colombia and Philippines.

The Head of our Kenya and East Africa programme will be responsible for the design and delivery of all Saferworld’s work promoting conflict prevention and cooperative approaches to security and justice in the region.

We, the under signed non-governmental organizations working to promote human rights and good governance in our respective countries and regionally in Africa, are gravely concerned about incidences of intimidations and hate campaigns directed at members of Kenya’s civil society increasingly occurr

The Head of our Kenya and East Africa programme will be responsible for the design and delivery of all Saferworld’s work promoting conflict prevention and cooperative approaches to security and justice in the region.

Table of Contents

Issue 36, April 2013

ISSN 2049-2650

EDITORIAL TEAM: Themba Lewis, Yara Romariz Maasri, Lily Parrott, Britta Redwood, Katherine Rehberg, Fiona McKinnon, Stuart Thomas, Jennie Corbett and Katie Vasey

The African Commission on Human and People’s Rights has handed down a decision in a case concerning violence against four women journalists during a protest.

The 5th BRICS Academic Forum, comprising experts and scholars from the research and academic institutions of India, China, Brazil, Russia and South Africa, met on the 11th and 12th of March 2013 in Durban.

In this issue:

STOP PRESS: Israel ‘secretly’ deports 1,000 Sudanese to Sudan, UNHCR rejects claim removal was ‘voluntary’

News on Countries of Origin and Asylum
Deportation News
Announcements
Conferences & workshops
Vacancies