When the Paris-based Kurdish journalist and filmmaker Berivan Vigoureux meets a Kurdish family in Jerusalem, she feels at home. The Israeli Kurds share everything except faith with their Kurdish brethren in Turkey. Another difference makes her sad: the Kurds in Turkey never have reached the peace Kurds in Israel are enjoying.

The war crimes trial of former Liberian president Charles Taylor is over. After three years and more than a hundred witnesses, the case was sent to the three international judges at the Special Court for Sierra Leone on Friday, March 11th, for deliberation. Taylor faces eleven charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity relating to Sierra Leone’s civil war of the late 1990s.

Human trafficking is a distressing form of international organised crime. Annually, hundreds of thousands of people are being trafficked across borders. Human trafficking is morally suppressive, illegal, it robs people of their lives, it violates human rights and it is a highly lucrative “business”. Mainly women and girls become victims of sex trafficking. It is a global issue and thus the Netherlands deals with it as well. The Netherlands is a source, transit and destination country for victims of trafficking.

More and more Roma are migrating from the Balkans to Western Europe--not only to France, but you can find Bulgarian and Romanian Roma moving to the Netherlands as well. Why are they leaving their countries of origin?

At over six feet tall with his African skin, dressed in a full length white tunic topped off with a skull cap, Sayed stands out on the streets of Kathmandu. You might think him an unlikely tourist or perhaps a visiting imam at the local mosque. But Sayed is neither. He is a refugee.