Myanmar : Violations amounting to international crimes, says UN probe (PRIV)
(Kanaga Raja, Geneva)
The United Nations-mandated Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar has reported that the body of information and materials it is collecting is "concrete and overwhelming" and points at "human rights violations of the most serious kind," being committed in Kachin, Shan and Rakhine states.

United Nations : The politicization of humanitarian aid through budget cuts (PRIV)
(IPS, New York)
Ahead of the pending "list of shame", the Secretary-General's Annual Report on Children and Armed Conflicts, child protection actors share concerns about the politicization of humanitarian aid putting child protection capacities at a disadvantage.

Latin America : "Me Too" doesn't always mean the same thing (PRIV)
(IPS, Buenos Aires)
From the Argentine slogan "Ni una menos" (Not one [woman] less)" to Colombia's "Now is not the time to remain silent", activism against gender violence has grown in Latin America since 2015, with campaigns that have social and cultural differences from the "Me Too" movement that emerged later, in 2017, in the United States.

Brazil : Women lead the fight for housing (PRIV)
(IPS, Rio de Janeiro)
"Here we empower women and we do not tolerate domestic violence, which we treat as our own, not as an intra-family, issue," says Lurdinha Lopes, a leader of the squatting movement in Brazil.