Full Coverage: Conflict

10/29/2004 Although it hard to decipher the truth from the conflicting claims and counter-claims about the recent violent clashes between on one hand, the Haitian police, and on the other, what are variously described as '"local residents", "Lavalas supporters" and "armed bandits", it seems clear that the interim government is involved in serious human rights violations.

10/29/2004 Mentre la Johns Hopkins University di Baltimora ha calcolato in 100 mila i morti civili a causa della guerra di occupazione, continuano i bombardamenti condotti dagli Usa. Da Falluja arriva una lettera diretta al segreteario dell’Onu che chiede di fermare i crimini contro l’umanità che si stanno consumando in Iraq. E a Roma sfileranno domani le organizzazioni del Comitato Fermiamo la guerra che invitano per metà novembre alcuni esponenti della società civile irachena. Tra questi anche rappresentanti del mondo sindacale che è sotto attacco del governo ad interim iracheno.

10/29/2004 Tens of thousands of women, girls, children and even babies raped and tortured in the Congo by warring factions have poor access to medical care, warns Amnesty.

10/29/2004 Analysts worldwide concur that global warming could lead to forced migration and new conflicts, thereby posing a threat to the security of nations.

10/29/2004 Israelin pääministerin Ariel Sharonin aie vetäytyä Gazan palestiinalaisalueelta on herättänyt paljon keskustelua. Oman tiensä kulkijana tunnettu palestiinalainen kansanedustaja ja tutkija Hanan Ashrawi kertoo IPS:n haastattelussa, miksi hanke ei hänen mielestään edistä rauhaa Lähi-idässä.

10/29/2004

Armas en Irak © Radio Netherlands

New details emerging on missing weapons in Iraq reveal that coalition forces were made aware of unsecured weapons and explosives stockpiles after the fall of Baghdad but they did nothing about it. Researchers with the international group, Human Rights Watch, informed U.S. and British officers about stockpiles of munitions in Basra, Fallujah and along the Baquba-Baghdad road as early as May 2003 but they said they did not have enough troops to secure the sites.

10/28/2004 Junto con la policía haitiana, las Fuerzas Internacionales de Estabilización de las Naciones Unidas en Haití han incursionado en algunos barrios de la capital, Puerto Príncipe, donde se han producido violentos incidentes.

10/28/2004 La pobreza y la desigualdad no serán erradicadas sin cambios profundos y sin la solidaridad de quienes ocupan los estratos más altos de la sociedad, que necesitan mirar más allá de sus estrechos intereses, a favor de una visión de nación, señaló Tom Koenigs, jefe de la Misión de Verificación de las Naciones Unidas para Guatemala (Minugua).

10/28/2004 A coalition of more than 160 U.S. development and relief organizations is calling on President George W. Bush to provide more assistance to the more than 1.6 million people who have been forced from their homes in a brutal counter-insurgency campaign that the Bush administration has characterized as “genocide” in Sudan’s western region of Darfur.

10/27/2004 Dal giurista per la pace Domenico Gallo, Magistratura Democratica, giunge un appello alla partecipazione per la manifestazione del 30 ottobre. "In pochi anni è profondamente cambiata la nostra vita e quella degli altri popoli.
"Oggi il ricorso alla violenza omicida di tipo bellico o di tipo terroristico è diventato strumento ordinario per la tutela di interessi di Stati o di gruppi, in un contesto di crescente barbarie. Noi tutti dobbiamo constatare, con stupore e con dolore, che lo stato ordinario della nostra vita non è più uno stato di pace e che la guerra non è più uno stato d’eccezione. In questa condizione, i nostri diritti fondamentali, la nostra stessa vita, sono precari e minacciati. Nel 1989 la caduta del muro di Berlino e la fine della guerra fredda avevano consegnato all’umanità speranze e prospettive di pace, che in pochi anni sono state completamente rovesciate." Le adesioni vanno inviate a domenico.gallo@tiscali.it

10/27/2004 Reporter senza frontiere ha reso nota la classifica mondiale della libertà di stampa. La repressione è maggiore in Asia orientale (Corea del Nord, Birmania, Cina, Vietnam, Laos) e in Medio-Oriente (Arabia Saudita, Iran, Siria, Iraq): paesi dove la stampa indipendente è inesistente, vige la censura, non sono garantite la libertà di informazione e la sicurezza dei giornalisti. Cuba è, dopo la Cina, la più grande prigione del mondo per i giornalisti (26 detenuti). Con 44 reporter uccisi dall'inizio del conflitto, la guerra in corso in Iraq si sta rivelando, per chi fa informazione, il conflitto più micidiale di questi ultimi anni. Italia e Spagna sono i due paesi dell'Unione europea con la peggiore posizione in classifica: ex-aequo al 39° posto.

10/27/2004

Sudan, Oil, and Human Rights - da Hrw

The fighting in Darfur is only one of several confrontations in the Sudanese Civil war, says Dan Connell, it cannot be solved in isolation. If a unified state is desirable, the international community will have to include Darfur and other regional conflicts in the ongoing peace talks between the Khartoum government and the people of southern Sudan, otherwise breaking Sudan into several autonomous states may be the only solution to the slaughter.

10/26/2004 Love and forgiveness in the Palestine-Israel conflict are often overshadowed by religious zealotry and an unwillingness to listen to people on the other side. But the situation is not hopeless, says Reverend Dr. Naim Ateek, a Palestinian Christian who brought his message to Montreal as part of the ongoing series on peace and conflict resolution.

10/26/2004 Thirteen women seeking refuge speak out about their harrowing experiences and reveal the appalling treatment they have received in detention in the UK.

10/26/2004 Any chance for a two-state solution in Israel and Palestine will collapse unless the UK intervenes now, says Christian Aid. Find out how to lobby for action.

10/26/2004 Nigerjoen suiston kapinaliikkeen johtaja Alhaji Mujahid Dokubu-Asari on luvannut riisua joukkonsa aseista, mutta tilanne alueella on edelleen tulenarka. Arvostelijoiden mielestä Dokubu-Asari on pelkkä hallituksen kätyri. Kapinalliset vaativat suiston köyhille asukkaille suurempaa osaa öljytuloista. Vaatimukselle on viime kuukausina annettu pontta iskuilla öljyn tuotantolaitoksia ja putkia vastaan.

10/26/2004

Refugees from Darfur head for Eastern Chad © B.Heger/Exile Images / Exile Images

This much we know: more than twelve months on, the fighting and insecurity that sent Darfur people fleeing from their homes has not stopped. Relief workers do not know when the situation will improve but they plan to provide emergency aid till October 2005 and to help people rebuild their lives when they return to their villages.

10/25/2004 Led by the Pakistan Fisherfolk Forum, fishermen from Badin - a coastal region in Pakistan - staged a protest against harassment by security forces and demanded their withdrawal from traditional fishing areas.

10/25/2004 Almost two weeks after the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) ended its military operations in Gaza’s Jabalia camp, aid workers are still assessing the damages of what is now regarded as the heaviest IDF incursion since the beginning of the second intifada. Apart from damaged homes and the high civilian death toll, many of the camp’s residents, including the sick and the injured, were confined to their homes for 12 days during the operation.

10/25/2004

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Bill Weinberg argues that the U.S. Senate’s vote to increase military aid to Colombia is a setback back for human rights and civil society movements as well as the self-proclaimed U.S. anti-drug trafficking effort in the South American country. The vote coincided with the release of a U.S. government document linking the president of Colombia to the drug trade, the release of a new Amnesty International report on sexual violence in Colombia’s war and, it came just weeks after a civil movement is emerged in Colombia to demand an end to military conflict.