BURKINA FASO
Is a landlocked country in West Africa around 274,200 square kilometres in size. It is surrounded by: Mali to the north; Niger to the east; Benin to the southeast; Togo and Ghana to the south; and Ivory Coast to the southwest. Its capital is Ouagadougou, their main religions are Islamic and Christianity and the official language is french. In 2014, its population was estimated at just over 17.3 million.
All about Burkina Faso
According to Ben Emmerson, the UN Special Rapporteur on human rights and counter-terrorism:
Burkina Faso is a small and peaceful State that needs protection because it is also a vulnerable nation that has to fight with radicalization and violent extremists from external and internal threats. But they can't do it isolated. International support is very urgent and necessary.
One of the most remarkable aspects is their particularly vulnerability at the moment due to its geographical proximity to the conflict in northern Mali, and the length of its borders with Mali and Niger. This situation provides conditions conducive to the spread of terrorism and that is why the world has to check Burkina Faso's position and contribute to keep the developement in this region.
Burkina Faso plays a critical role in promoting peace and dialogue within the sub-region especially about Mali, because their contribution it will be Significant to keep track of Mali's conflict.
Finally Emmerson claims that any significant attack on the infrastructure or security of Burkina Faso would undermine social cohesion, impair inward investment, and further destabilize the region.
by Juliana V. López.
Reference:
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=44645&Cr=burkina+faso&Cr1#.VPGuI7PF-zd
The United Nations delegate 7 experts, who outlined the progress they had made and the challenges they faced in a wide range of human rights fields, from freedom of religion to government surveillance strategies.
PABLO DE GREIFF, Special Rapporteur on the promotion of truth, justice, reparation and guarantees of non-recurrence, said that most victims of gross violations of human rights and serious violations of international humanitarian law still did not receive any reparations. The implementation gap not only affected victims directly, but also rippled across generations and entire societies, burdening them with legacies of mistrust and institutional weaknesses. Even where reparations programmes had been established, they fell significantly short.
This Expert focus his speech in those victims of all that violence, who haven´t receive any help yet and it can´t continue happen, he said that it not only affect those people, it affect entire societies.
Burkina faso is a country which are in risk, because their proximately of mali and niger and their conflicts, so the rest of the world can´t forget about this little country and provide help, in that way Burkina every time will be better and could help to promote the peace.