Full Coverage: Conflict

06/30/2005 WASHINGTON, D.C., Jun 30 (OneWorld) - Africans and Americans support United Nations-authorized military intervention to quell serious human rights abuses and violence in Sudan's Darfur and other conflict-wracked regions, said a pair of new polls.

06/29/2005 Since Sunday 19 the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN) has been on general red alert with EZLN troops called into the mountains of Chiapas, and Zapatista communities advised to flee by their Juntas de Buen Gobierno (Governing Councils), amid fears that war in Chiapas is likely to resume. The Zapatista "Caracoles" or "centers of zapatista autonomy" have also been closed [Pics of the Caracoles La Garrucha and Morelia]

06/29/2005 Después de fracasar en su intento de establecer una Academia Latinoamericana de Policía en Costa Rica y Panamá, Estados Unidos vuelve ahora "a la carga" esta vez en El Salvador, donde su proyecto, que trae los fantasmas de la famosa "Escuela de las Américas", pretende comenzar a dar lecciones en julio, aunque ya enfrenta una fuerte oposición.

06/29/2005 Le porte-parole de l'EZLN a déclaré, par voie de communiqué, l' « alerte rouge générale » , entrée en vigueur le 19 juin, dans les territorios rebeldes chiapanèques.

06/29/2005 La guerrilla del Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional (EZLN) de México anunció este martes que después de más de 11 años de haberse levantado en armas, decidió unirse a obreros, campesinos y otros sectores, como un "nuevo paso" en su lucha.

06/29/2005 The recent interception of a young Palestinian women on her way to attack an Israeli hospital where she was being treated for burns makes Ami Isseroff wonder if the violence is now driven by a group of "rent-a-terrorists" who are afraid that peace would render them unemployed. And what does this new level of depravity portend for the future of the Middle East?

06/24/2005 Thousands of people in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh’s Bastar area have decided to oppose and hunt down naxalites. Recently villagers, who were finding it difficult to eke out a living because of dictats by the naxalites, killed two of them. The police now plan to provide weapons to anti-naxalite groups.

06/24/2005 Wangari Maathai, founder of the famous Greenbelt Movement and African Nobel Laureate, lay her wisdom upon the U.S. NGO community recently. "Unless we manage resources more equitably, we won’t have peace. To do that there has to be democratic space," she told a Washington, D.C. gathering.

06/24/2005 WASHINGTON, D.C., Jun 24 (OneWorld) - Wangari Muta Maathai, 2004's Nobel Peace Prize winner and the first African woman bestowed the prestigious award, told representatives from non-governmental organizations here recently that a stronger commitment to environmental conservation can help build peace and greater prosperity in Africa.

06/24/2005 Zarema Muzhakhoyeva is one of the so-called Black Widows, women responsible for bombings in Russia's biggest cities who are fuelling the fear that Chechen women are now prepared to fight in place of their dead husbands. The fear is well-founded: female suicide bombers in Russia have accounted for more than 260 military and civilian deaths in less than five years. They have downed domestic flights, blown themselves up near restaurants, in subway stations, at rock concerts, and they were involved in both the Dubrovka theatre hostage-taking and the Beslan school massacre.

06/23/2005 Paul Foreman et Vincent Hoedt ont été arrêtés à la fin du mois de mai. Tous deux étaient accusés de publication de fausses informations, de nuisances envers la société soudanaise et d’espionnage, suite à la publication en mars du rapport "L'écrasant fardeau du viol: violence sexuelle au Darfour". Ils avaient été relâchés sous caution et n’avaient pas été autorisés à quitter le pays.

06/23/2005 Mexico's Zapatista rebel group is ready to take "a new step in the struggle" and consult with members on the future of its 11-year fight for Indian rights, leader Subcomandante Marcos said on Tuesday.

06/23/2005 The reason for this general Red Alert is that the Clandestine Revolutionary Indigenous Committee - General Command of the EZLN has called to consulta their insurgent troops, all their comandantes and comandantas, regional and local responsables and their support bases.

06/23/2005 The EZLN declared a Red Alert on June 19th. Read the original communiqué signed by Subcomandante Marcos.

06/23/2005 L'annuncio di allerta rossa delle comunità zapatiste ha provocato una reazione internazionale simile alla prima rivolta del gennaio 2004 a resistenza dell'accordo Nafta di libero scambio. Nel comunicato si annuncia una mobilitazione generale dei "regolari" dell'Ezln, la clandestinità delle Giunte del buon governo che amministrano i municipi autonomi zapatisti e altre misure d'urgenza tra cui un'avviso ai cooperanti internazionali ad abbandonare le comunità indigene, o di rimanervi a loro rischio. Tutto lascia pensare ad una imminente offensiva dell'esercito federale messicano, che non ha mai allentato la presa sulla zona di conflitto in Chiapas. Il Centro per i Diritti Umani Fray Bartolomé de Las Casas ha chiesto al presidente Fox la sospensione immediata dei movimenti militari e alle parti in conflitto la difesa dei civili. In questi anni la lotta degli zapatisti ha acquistato un valore sostanziale e simbolico che ha mobilitato pure il presidente Moratti che di un'Internazionale è presidente.

06/23/2005 The largest overlooked disaster in the world, a decade of conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, has resulted in thousands of displaced civilians. In this new photo essay by Refugees International, hear their courageous stories for yourself.

06/23/2005 MEXICO CITY, Jun 22 (IPS) - ”Death to the whores, I'm back” read a sign found next to the body of one of the nearly 1,700 Guatemalan women who have been murdered in the past five years.

06/23/2005 MEXICO CITY, Jun 22 (IPS) - ”Death to the bitches, I'm back” read a sign found next to the body of one of the nearly 1,700 Guatemalan women who have been murdered in the past five years.

06/23/2005 WASHINGTON, D.C., Jun 22 (OneWorld) - Rights campaigners accused the U.S. administration of going along with genocide Wednesday after a top diplomat told lawmakers the White House maintains an intelligence-sharing relationship with the very government of Sudan it has assailed for a massive extermination of people in Darfur.

06/22/2005 Aid agencies and doctors are calling on Coalition forces in Iraq to allow them safe access to Karabila, where hundreds require medical treatment and thousands of families have run out of food and water. Since the June 17 launch of 'Operation Spear'--designed to prevent rebels from using the region as a staging post en route from Syria--U.S. forces have prohibited anyone to enter or leave the village.