A Step in the Right Direction

Expand UN peacekeepers from Pakistan using a school building in Central African Republic as their base.  The forces left the school in January 2017 after HRW informed UN authorities © 2017 Edouard Dropsy for Human Rights Watch A fragile piece of papyrus dug up in Egypt in the 1970s shows that people have been struggling with the question of where soldiers should be quartered for thousands of years. The notice scrawled in ancient Greek—dating from around the Third Century B.C.E. —appears to have once hung outside a priest’s chamber and has been interpreted as a commander-in-chief’s order: “Out…

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