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November 2004
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11/30/2004
Read moreFrom: no organisation Related: [United States] [United Kingdom] [Iraq] [Human Rights] [Peace] Image: Vigil for Fallujah in Manchester, UK
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11/30/2004
The prospects for peace are better now than anytime in the past 20 years; Sudanese leaders and the international aid community must seize this opportunity and come through for the people of the long-embattled country, the UN said Tuesday.
Read moreFrom: ReliefWeb UN OCHA Related: [Sudan] [Aid] [Conflict Resolution] [Peace] |
11/30/2004
Irakissa yhä useammat ovat menettäneet luottamuksensa amerikkalaisten nimittämään väliaikaiseen pääministeriin Ijad Allawiin, ja häntä on alettu verrata Saddam Husseiniin. Allawi on mm. uhkaillut toimittajia pidätyksillä ja kieltänyt televisiokanavan al-Jazeeran toiminnan maassa. Hallituksen oikeusministeri on palauttanut kuolemanrangaistuksen ja puhunut kapinallisten päiden ja käsien katkomisesta.
Read moreFrom: Suomen IPS Related: [Iraq] [Governance] Image: Ijad Allawi © Radio Netherlands Wereldomroep
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11/30/2004
Despite the threat of expulsion by the Sudanese government for making political statements, Save the Children continues to warn that the peace accord has had no immediate impact and that "ethnic violence and civil war will continue to complicate relief efforts".
Read moreRelated: [Sudan] [Emergency Relief] |
11/30/2004
The lawyers from the International Aid Network (IAN) started an initiative at the Supreme Court of Serbia to review and revise its position on the cases of forced mobilizations of B&H and Croatian refugees, back in 1995.
Read moreRelated: [Serbia and Montenegro] [Refugees] [Activism] [Justice and Crime] [Law] Image: Refugees in Serbia
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11/27/2004
Rwanda's Godeliève Mukasarasi, winner of Rights & Democracy's 2004 John Humphrey Freedom Award, arrived on the weekend to visit Halifax, Moncton, Toronto, Montreal and Ottawa. The presentation ceremony takes place on the eve of International Human Rights Day. A survivor of the 1994 genocide, Ms. Mukasarasi has gone on to make an invaluable contribution to the promotion of human rights and democratic development in Rwanda.
Read moreFrom: Rights and Democracy (ICHRDD) Related: [Rwanda] [Canada] [Central Africa] [Africa] [Development] [Aid] [Refugees] [Human Rights] [Gender] [Race Politics] [Civil Society] [Codes of Conduct] [Justice and Crime] |
11/26/2004
Nell’ultima settimana si è aperto in Italia un dibattito sulla riforma del Codice penale militare approvata già in prima lettura al Senato, che mette di fatto a rischio carcere ogni “rivelazione” sulle missioni di pace. Duro commento arriva da Mimmo Càndito, giornalista del La Stampa che parla di “processo di militarizzazione della politica”. Dal mondo nonviolento arriva un secco no a questa riforma. Secondo lo studioso canadese Michel Chossudovsky l’esercito degli Stati Uniti sta insabbiando i crimi di guerra in Iraq. In Italia voci pacifiste laiche e religiose si sono appellate all’assemblea dei vescovi affinchè condanni “il peccato di chi continua ad uccidere” in Iraq, dove viene vietata la documentazione degli orrori di guerra.
Read moreFrom: Beati i Costruttori di Pace, Peacelink Related: [Iraq] [Freedom of Expression] [Governance] Image: sosinformazione.org
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11/26/2004
Passions are heating up in the troubled region of Central Africa as Rwanda has threatened to invade neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo to track down rebels it claims are preparing an attack on Rwanda from that country. One Congolese official believes Rwanda is looking for a pretense to attack his country.
Read moreFrom: United Nations' Integrated Regional Information Network Related: [Rwanda] [Democratic Republic of the Congo] |
11/25/2004
Il 25 novembre e' la giornata internazionale del no alla violenza contro le donne. In Colombia le donne della Rurìta Pacifica hanno organizzato una grande mobilitazione in solidarieta' con le donne e le comunita' di profughi interni. La violenza sulle donne è diffusa anche nelle isole Salomone nel Pacifico meridionale, come viene riportato nel rapporto diffuso da Amnesty International. Tra i paesi da non dimenticare c’è l’Afghanistan, dove dopo il regime dei Talebani le donne nella periferia del paese sono ancora oppresse e vengono ancora picchiate in pubblico se non indossano il burqa. E dalle donne del Mozambico arriva una voglia di cambiamento a pochi giorni dalle elezioni in Mozambico.
Read moreFrom: Il Paese delle Donne, Femmis, AIDOS - Associazione Italiana Donne per lo Sviluppo Related: [Colombia] [Gender] [Civil Society] Image: Rurìta Pacifica Mujeres in Colombia
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11/25/2004
Dopo le speranze suscitate dai negoziati tra il governo Sudanese e il gruppo ribelle SPLM/A, l’attesa pacificazione nell’infuocato Sud Sudan potrebbe provocare un’ulteriore diffusione del virus dell’HIV, da cui è già affetto il 2,6% della popolazione adulta della regione, secondo le stime contenute in un recente rapporto dell’Unfpa (United Nations Population Fund). Condividendo le preoccupazioni dell’Unfapa, il consigliere regionale dell’Unicef per l’Aids nell’Africa orientale e meridionale, David Alnwick, afferma: “In poche parole, il Sud Sudan è un disastro in attesa di scoppiare”.
Read moreFrom: Redattore sociale Related: [Sudan] [HIV/AIDS] |
11/24/2004
Reporter senza frontiere dedica la 15ma Giornata a sostegno dei giornalisti prigionieri ai due reporter francesi ostaggi in Iraq, Christian Chesnot e Georges Malbrunot, e ricorda la situazione di 198 donne e uomini prigionieri e di nove professionisti dei media scomparsi per aver voluto informarci. Questa mattina sulla facciata dell'Hôtel de Ville di Parigi (il municipio della capitale), sotto le gigantografie dei due giornalisti francesi è stato esposto un grande striscione che mostra la silhouette di un uomo che legge un giornale, realizzata con i 207 nomi di quei professionisti dei media che stanno pagando un pesante tributo alla libertà di stampa.
Read moreFrom: Reporter Senza Frontiere Related: [Freedom of Expression] [Governance] Image: giornalisti prigionieri Day - da rsf.org
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11/24/2004
Human rights advocates and several religious organizations have called on the U.S. company Caterpillar to stop selling bulldozers to Israel, on the grounds that they are used by the army to raze Palestinian homes in violation of international humanitarian law.
Read moreFrom: OneWorld US Related: [Israel] [Palestine] [United States] [Corporations] [Human Rights] |
11/23/2004
L'annuncio di un prossimo accordo tra i ribelli independentisti del sud e il governo del Sudan, che avrebbe posto fine alla ventennale guerra civile, lasciava sperare in una prossima risoluzione del conflitto anche nel Darfur (Sudan occidentale). Ma una "grave escalation militare" nel Darfur ha portato il governo locale a dichiarare lo stato di emergenza. Gli scontri si sono intensificati anche in altre zone del Paese. Intanto il Dipartimento di Stato americano annuncia "conseguenze molto serie" se la pace fra Khartoum e i ribelli dello Spla (Sud) non sarà sottoscritta entro il 31 dicembre, ma esclude un intervento militare Usa nel Darfur.
Read moreFrom: MISNA , United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Related: [Central Africa] [Indigenous Rights] [Conflict Resolution] Image: Milizie nel Darfur - da HRW
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11/23/2004
A major U.S. human rights group has called on Caterpillar Inc., the Illinois-based heavy-equipment giant, to immediately suspend sales of its D9 bulldozer to the Israeli army on the grounds that they are being used to violate international humanitarian law in the occupied territories.
Read moreFrom: OneWorld US Related: [United States] [Palestine] [Israel] [Corporations] [Civil Rights] [Activism] [Civil Society] [Codes of Conduct] [Geopolitics] |
11/23/2004
The restriction of Palestinian freedom of movement has fragmented Palestinian economic space, raised the cost of doing business, and eliminated the predictability needed to conduct business, said the World Bank Monday at the release of a new report showing how Palestinians have become mired deeper in poverty since the start of the Intifada in 2000.
Read moreFrom: World Bank Related: [Palestine] [Poverty] [Economy] [Security] |
11/23/2004
The international conference being held in Egypt to discuss the Iraq situation will need a larger meeting table than previous ones, as countries with such differing perspectives as the U.S., France, Iran, and Syria are all present.
Read moreFrom: Radio Netherlands Wereldomroep Related: [Iraq] [Aid] [International Cooperation] [Debt] [Geopolitics] [Security] Image: Iraqi P.M. Allawi in Egypt © Radio Netherlands Wereldomroep
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11/23/2004
Margaret Hassan, the CARE director murdered in Iraq last week, had lived and worked in the country for 30 years. Margaret Hassan was not killed in Saddam Hussein's Iraq, she was murdered in the Iraq that has been created by Messrs Bush, Blair, Berlusconi, and other Western leaders, say Transnational Foundation President and Chairman Jan Oberg and Christian Hårleman.
Read moreFrom: Transnational Foundation Related: [Iraq] [War and Peace] [Terrorism] |
11/23/2004
A convoy of trucks over a kilometer long is carrying U.S.-donated food aid through the Libyan desert to over 200,000 Sudanese refugees in eastern Chad. Sudanese government and rebel representatives have welcomed the announcement that a UN peacekeeping force will be sent to Sudan as soon as a peace deal is finalized.
Read moreFrom: MISNA , ReliefWeb UN OCHA Related: [Chad] [Libya ] [Sudan] [United States] [Aid] [Emergency Relief] [International Cooperation] [Nutrition/Malnutrition] [Geopolitics] [Conflict Resolution] [United Nations] |
11/23/2004
Uganda's rebel leader has asked for a 100-day extension of the government-imposed ceasefire--set to expire on Tuesday--ostensibly to allow for peace talks, although rebel forces have already violated the agreement in its first six days and appear to be moving away from the ceasefire zone, reports the Kampala Monitor.
Read moreFrom: allAfrica.com Related: [Uganda] [Conflict Resolution] |
11/23/2004
BAGHDAD, Nov 19 (IPS) - An eyewitness commentary to IPS through a U.S. raid on a Baghdad mosque Friday gives a vivid picture of what a 'successful raid' can be like: at least four worshippers dead and 20 wounded in what was a 'horrific scene'.
Read moreFrom: Inter Press Service (IPS) Related: [Middle East] |
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