Banjul, June 12, 2019—“Never Again!” sings Awa Bling in her recently released song produced with the support of ICTJ. She is part of a movement of youth and prominent artists who are reclaiming this universal slogan by creating their own songs about transitional justice and bringing their voices to some of the most forgotten regions of The Gambia. Local and international fans can now access new music videos released on social media by five talented Gambian hip hop artists.

Youth in Lebanon want to work to break down taboos surrounding the civil war in Lebanese schoolrooms, where the subject is omitted from history books. When Salwa Saad, a young women who fought in the conflict, gives talks at schools, she has a clear message for students: “Look at us, our souls are wounded, we destroyed our country, so many people killed and what did we gain?” Assad urges them to be critical about what their radio station, religious or political leaders say about ‘the enemy’.

A United Nations fact-finding mission has urged cutting off all business with Myanmar's military as part of efforts to hold the army accountable for human rights abuses. In a statement on Tuesday, the UN Human Rights Council said there had been no progress toward resolving the crisis over Myanmar's mostly Muslim Rohingya minority, more than one million of whom have fled military "clearance operations" in the northwest Rakhine region.

Human Rights Watch today said Myanmar should disband its commission of inquiry into abuses in Rakhine state because it is clearly unwilling to seriously investigate alleged grave crimes against ethnic Rohingya. At a news conference, Rosario Manalo, chair of the Independent Commission of Enquiry, stated that the commission had found “no evidence” to support allegations of human rights abuses in the four months since it officially opened its investigation, the New York-based human rights organization said in a report published yesterday.