Full Coverage: Conflict

21.11.2009 Avoiding failure in Afghanistan means embracing its patronage politics—bribes and all, argues Alex De Waal.

18.11.2009 A group of NGOs has lodged a legal complaint claiming that one of the world's leading timber wholesalers bought timber from Liberian companies that provided support to Charles Taylor's brutal regime.

16.11.2009 Is brutality in the name of patriotism more justified than violence in the name of parallel ideologies, be it Maoism, communalism, or Hindu nationalism, asks Dilip Simeon.

06.11.2009 British Prime Minister Gordon Brown jhas been asked to undertake an investigation into the death of Afghan journalist Sultan Munadi, the New York Times reporter killed during a British military operation that rescued reporter Stephen Farrell from Taliban captors.

23.06.2009 Africa has entered a new stage – of state-making, French academic Gerard Prunier told a meeting in London last week.

22.04.2009 More than 400 war-wounded patients arrived in Vavuniya hospital in a government-controlled area of northern Sri Lanka in a 36-hour period, says an international medical charity.
+ 40,000 more flee battle zone – UN
+ The Tamil diaspora: solidarities and realities

16.02.2009 Mobile phone manufacturers must audit their supply chains in order to exclude minerals financing the armed conflict and atrocities in eastern Congo, say activists as the Mobile World Congress opens in Barcelona.

15.02.2009 Pankaj Mishra grapples with the contemporary conundrum of democracy. Why did voters re-elect Bush and Blair? He fears for the outcome of the Indian election. Guardian

18.01.2009 No journalists are allowed into Gaza and my colleagues at OneWorld US have done a great job in collating these disturbing accounts by aid workers inside the enclave.

20.10.2008 Waltz with Bashir is about director Ari Folman's search for the missing memories of his experiences in the Israeli army in Lebanon in the early 1980s. It is a brilliant film about appalling events.

06.10.2008 Forced displacement is on the increase around the world, with the number of refugees now topping 11.4 million and internally displaced people at 26 million, says the head of the UN refugee agency.

24.09.2008 Refugees who have been disabled by the war in northern Uganda are confronting food shortages and inaccessible public services in government-run camps, as well as being under growing pressure to return home, even though they lack the resources to resume a normal life.

01.07.2008 A new project is being launched to support conflict survivors in Uganda, Burundi and Rwanda.

01.05.2008 Sri Lankan government’s decision to ease restrictions on fishing in Eastern Province, a territory hitherto controlled by LTTE rebels, will give much needed fillip to the industry – a major source of revenue for the country’s exchequer and livelihood for people. It will also help people recover from 2004 tsunami disaster.

29.04.2008 A new UN report released less than two weeks after the Maoists’ victory in the Nepal polls, says children are still being recruited by armed groups and used for political demonstrations. The report calls for enhanced legal protection of minors, in line with international standards.

21.04.2008 SAN FRANCISCO, Apr 21 (OneWorld) - About 300,000 U.S. veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan suffer from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) or major depression. Another 320,000 veterans likely suffer from traumatic brain injury (TBI), a type of physical brain damage often caused by explosions from roadside bombs.

17.04.2008 Ravaged by ethnic unrest and socio-economic deprivation, Karbi Anglong is the first district of Assam in north-east India to have implemented a quality management system for facilitating public services. Cooperative units for dairy processing and banking are a series of development initiatives aimed at freeing the district of its poverty tag.

17.04.2008 There has been a sharp rise in attacks on NGOs by Taliban rebels and criminals in Afghanistan from January to March this year, says a report. This dangerous situation is forcing international aid organisations to recruit locals to change their profile and refrain from visibility.

15.04.2008 That they would be a force to reckon with, nobody denied. But they would do well in the polls has come as a surprise. The results declared so far in Nepal’s Constituent Assembly elections indicate that ensuring a simple majority for the Maoists is now almost a certainty.

11.04.2008 Even in his criticism of the Chinese authorities in handling the current standoff in Tibet, the Dalai Lama never lost his composure. In a recent interview, the Tibetan spiritual leader has reiterated his stand that he wants a ‘meaningful autonomy’ for the protection and preservation of Tibetan ecology and culture.