Full Coverage: Arms & military

30.05.2006 Burma’s democracy leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, was arrested in May 2003 after the regime’s militia attacked her convoy and killed up to 100 of her supporters. She is still in detention. She isn't allowed to see family or friends. Her phone line is cut and her post is intercepted. Join the global campaign to free Aung San Suu Kyi and all political prisoners in Burma.

25.05.2006 Thousands of people strong peaceful protest against weapons and armed violence was held yesterday in Skopje, the capitol of Macedonia. The rally was organized as part of the International Action Week Against Small Arms, as well as to mark the death of three and wounding six young people in an internet café, last week.

25.05.2006 SAN FRANCISCO, May 24 (OneWorld) - Though President George W. Bush's plan to send 6,000 members of the National Guard to patrol the U.S.-Mexico border is meeting with little resistance in Washington, residents of the Texas border town of Redford are not so easily convinced.

23.05.2006 At the press conference held earlier today, the Civil NGO from Skopje presented the campaign organized to mark the Global week of Action Against Arms (May 22-29). The Campaign will be implemented in cooperation with the UNDP's Partnership for Community Safety and Security; the Caritas France in Macedonia; Cair Municipality; Zgjohu! civil movement (Wake UP!), and "Esnaf" association of artizans and craftsmen from the Old Bazaar in Skopje.

19.05.2006 A senior United Nations official began the first high-level talks, in more than two years, between the world body and the Government of Myanmar, bearing a clear message about the need to restore democracy and full human rights in the South Asian country.

19.05.2006 Sri Lankan children in areas most affected by recent clashes are paying a high price for the escalating tension in the island. Thousands of children are still displaced from their homes following the recent violence in Trincomalee District, in which six children were killed and others injured or severely traumatized.

19.05.2006 SAN FRANCISCO, May 18 (OneWorld) - The U.S. government has lost track of over 200,000 machine guns that were supposed to be used by the Iraqi police, according to a prominent human rights watchdog calling for tougher international regulations on arms dealings.

19.05.2006 Peter Gantz's article suggesting a NATO force to arrest the Darfur genocide is one of the few concrete suggestions for actually defeating genocide. Sadly, the UN seems incapable of...

16.05.2006 NEW YORK, May 16 (OneWorld) - Peace groups in the United States are testing new ways to stop the U.S. war machinery in Iraq, Afghanistan, and places that might become new targets in the new future.

16.05.2006 I agree with the reasons that we have gone to Iraq. I may not agree with some actions that people choose while they are supposed to be over there protecting and serving our people and now the civilian Iraqis, but I am behind helping them and protecting us from terrorists...

15.05.2006 Former militia commanders in Afghanistan's eastern province of Nangarhar have voluntarily surrendered a number of weapons to the Disbandment of Illegal Armed Groups (DIAG) programme, officials from the UN-backed initiative said in the Afghan capital, Kabul.

15.05.2006 The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is deeply concerned over the upsurge of violence in Sri Lanka that has resuted in loss of human life and displacement of civilians in the north and east parts of the country. It has called on the parties to the armed conflict to respect the rules and principles of international humanitarian law.

08.05.2006 I read your posting "Nepal's Dilemma: Amnesty for Maoists?". The Maoists are perpetrators of human rights [abuses]. They are responsible...

08.05.2006 Chronically weak and outdated arms controls urgently need strengthening to stop an ever-expanding chain of arms brokers, logistic firms and transporters from fuelling massive human rights abuse around the world.

05.05.2006 NEW YORK, May 5 (OneWorld) - In a gesture of defiance to the Bush administration, lawmakers responsible for deciding budgetary allocations for defense from both major political parties have decided to cut some of the funding for the controversial National Missile Defense (NMD) system and space weapons research.

04.05.2006 UNITED NATIONS, May 4 (OneWorld) - The Bush administration's efforts to plead innocence to charges of using torture before a key United Nations committee have been complicated by a new report from an influential human rights group suggesting otherwise.

04.05.2006 The Regional Conscientious Objection Network «Objection for Peace» is a coalition of organizations that work on promotion of the right to conscientious objection in the region of Southeast Europe. It was established in February 2003, with the aim to achieve greater protection for the right to conscientious objection and its correct implementation in legislation and practice, in accordance with the valid legislation on regional level, through joint action.