Friday, January 16, 2009

Somalia: protection of civilians should be a paramount concern for the un security council

Only two days after the UN Security Council reaffirmed "its commitment to the full and effective implementation of its resolutions on the protection of civilians in armed conflict", the Security Council adopted today a new resolution on Somalia, giving more support to the African Union in Somalia (AMISOM) and stating its intention to establish a United Nations Peacekeeping operation in the country but failing to include protection of civilians or human rights monitoring as part of the mandate of this operation.
What is the current human rights situation in Somalia?
Somalia has been ravaged by conflict since 1991, but the last two years have witnessed an upsurge in fighting and attacks on civilians. Civilians have borne the brunt of the fighting since an internationally-backed Somali Transitional Federal Government, supported by Ethiopian troops has been fighting armed groups issued from the Union of Islamic Courts which was controlling the capital Mogadishu and other parts of the country in 2006,. MORE..http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/MYAI-7NE69C?OpenDocument

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