Full Coverage: Conflict

06/30/2004 Si le gouvernement libéral entend faire mieux, comme le promettait le premier ministre Paul Martin, il devra agir rapidement pour éviter une grave perturbation des services publics fédéraux. L’Alliance de la Fonction publique du Canada (AFPC) demande au nouveau gouvernement d’intervenir rapidement pour empêcher la grève générale des travailleurs et travailleuses du secteur public fédéral, grève qui se dessine pour la fin de l’été.

06/30/2004 Afganistanin vanhoilliset islamilaiset ryhmittymät jatkavat kampanjaansa tyttöjen koulunkäyntiä vastaan. Viime kuukausina kouluja on poltettu ja niistä on löydetty pommeja. Paikalliset viranomaiset eivät ole onnistuneet jäljittämään iskujen tekijöitä. Turvallisuustilanne on heikko etenkin maan pohjoisissa ja eteläisissä maakunnissa.

06/30/2004 The Taliban has begun targeting election workers and voters registering for Afghanistan’s general election, scheduled for September this year.

06/30/2004 Mentre Kofi Annan e Colin Powell stanno per giungere in Sudan, varie ong internazionali richiamano le "gravi responsabilità" del governo di Khartoum per il "genocidio" e la "pulizia etnica" in corso nella regione occidentale del Darfur. Solo nei giorni scorsi il presidente sudanese Omar el Beshir ha ordinato il disarmo di tutte le milizie presenti nel Darfur, comprese quelle filogovernative Janjaweed e solo ieri ha annunciato l'eliminazione di tutti gli ostacoli che impediscono l'arrivo di aiuti umanitari destinati alla popolazione del Darfur.

06/29/2004 Luego de más de dos décadas de resistencia armada y protestas organizadas contra el gobierno de turno, Yatama, el principal movimiento social indígena de Nicaragua, está cambiando las balas por votos en las aisladas selvas de la Costa Atlántica.

06/29/2004 After more than two decades of armed resistance and organized protests against the government, Yatama, Nicaragua's largest indigenous social movement, is trading in its bullets for ballots in the isolated jungles of the Atlantic coast.

06/29/2004 Os Estados Unidos se opuseram na terça-feira a um eventual intercâmbio com a guerrilha, que permita a libertação de rebeldes e de reféns. Washington manteve esta oposição apesar das Forças Armadas Revolucionárias da Colômbia (Farc), o maior grupo de guerrilha do país, manterem três funcionários terceirizados do Departamento de Defesa dos EUA entre os reféns que podem ser trocados.

06/29/2004 An underground ultra-leftist group has killed Humayun Kabir Balu, a veteran journalist and editor of the Bangla-language daily Janmabhumi, in a bomb attack.

06/29/2004 There are over 500 rhinos surviving in Nepal but the battle against poaching is never-ending. Protection of the rare species is regarded in general as a success story, apart from periods of particular intensity of the Maoist conflict.

06/29/2004 “This is the most serious humanitarian emergency in the world today," Hilary Benn told MPs on 9 June. Yet the crisis in Darfur is happening because the Government of Sudan wants it to happen, and the rest of the world does not care enough to stop it, writes IDS research fellow Stephen Devereux. (See Sudan emergency appeal.)

06/28/2004 THE US-controlled coalition in Baghdad is about to hand over power to an Iraqi government without having properly accounted for what it has done with some $20 billion of Iraq's own money, says a new report published by Christian Aid.

06/28/2004 Fear that the deteriorating situation in the eastern parts of the Democratic Republic of Congo could lead to full-scale war have stepped up diplomatic activity with interventions from three African Presidents, as well as the UN Security Council.

06/27/2004 Il Segretario Generale dell'Onu Kofi Annan ha annunciato che la sua visita in Sudan coinciderà in parte con quella del Segretario di Stato Usa, Colin Powell. L'intento è di fare pressioni sul governo di Khartoum per disarmare le milizie di predoni arabi (note col nome di Janjaweed) che da tempo imperversano nella regione del Darfur dove è in atto un conflitto che "rasenta la pulizia etnica". Gli sfollati continuano ad essere vittime di violenti attacchi, mentre è devastante la carenza di aiuti - ribadiscono Medici senza Frontiere e Amnesty International.

06/25/2004 Suicide bombings, rocket attacks, assassinations, political wrangling: familiar fare from media covering the occupied territories. But what about the everyday conditions of people living under occupation? Inspiration for a photo essay from journalist Jon Elmer's recent stay in the West Bank and Gaza.

06/25/2004 A study by the WHO has brought into focus the massive economic costs of violence, sometimes costing countries as much as 4 per cent of their gross domestic product.

06/24/2004 A Sri Lankan parliamentarian's admission that he helped breakaway Tamil Tiger leader Karuna is the latest setback to the country's fragmented peace process, already reeling under charges that the government is stoking unrest among the rebels.

06/24/2004 Euroopan unioni ei saa vaieta Yhdysvaltain harjoittamista ihmisoikeusloukkauksista, kun EU:n johtajat tapaavat Yhdysvaltain presidentin George W. Bushin viikonlopun huippukokouksessa, ihmisoikeusjärjestö Amnesty International korostaa tänään julkaistussa avoimessa kirjeessään EU:n puheenjohtajamaan Irlannin pääministerille Bertie Ahernille.

06/24/2004 Although the South Korean government announced that its decision to deploy 3,000 troops to Iraq is unlikely to be swayed by the beheading of a South Korean hostage, mounting public protests, however, could force it to cancel the deployment.

06/24/2004 Tshetshenian aseellinen konflikti, jota leimaavat järjestelmälliset ihmisoikeusloukkaukset, jatkuu ja näyttää olevan leviämässä myös Ingushian tasavaltaan, toteaa ihmisoikeusjärjestö Amnesty International uudessa raportissaan. Toisin kuin Venäjän viranomaiset ovat viime aikoina väittäneet, tilanne Tshetsheniassa on kaukana normaalista, raportissa korostetaan.

06/23/2004 There's an eery familiarity to the military maneuvering in and around Congo, a giant nation in the heart of Africa. Some observers worry that the region is slipping into a second African "world war" - a repeat of the 1998-2003 conflict that involved troops from six nations and left 3 million dead.