GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Israel has begun an airlift to send home 4,500 illegal workers from S Sudan, with the first 120 flown out Sunday 17 June. Reuters reports that they are only the first wave of what could be 60,000 illegal immigrants that Israel wants to send home, saying they are not asylum seekers but [...]
Humanitarian worker and rights activist murder sparks heated reactions
July 16, 2009 by
Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The murder in Chechnya of Natalia Estemirova, who worked for the humanitarian organization Memorial, which has ties to Geneva-based humanitarian organizations, has prompted widespread condemnation. Suspicion outside the country is falling on government-backed militia who reportedly have much to fear from evidence she had been gathering into human rights abuses. Russian [...]
