Full Coverage: Conflict

31.01.2005 The situation in Iraq would be unpredictable and could become even more dangerous if U.S. troops leave the country, but the same will be true if they stay, says Council for a Livable World president John Isaacs, who served 18 months as a U.S. foreign service officer in Vietnam and sees many similarities between this conflict and that one.

31.01.2005 "On my way out of the voting site, an American soldier handed me a sticker with the words 'I voted' printed on it. He looked perplexed as I stuck it on his rifle and left." Tongue planted firmly in cheek, Iraqi-American Hawra Karama tells what Sunday's elections meant to him, and how they differed from the ones in which Saddam Hussein made him participate in 1995 and 2002.

31.01.2005 Turnout among registered voters was well above 50 percent in Baghdad Sunday despite numerous deadly attacks, according to Institute for War and Peace Reporting correspondents throughout the capital city. Some are hailing a victory for democracy while others doubt the legitimacy of elections, pointing especially to U.S. control of the political process and the large number of Iraqis who never registered at all.

30.01.2005 Des jeunes qui ont passé une partie de leur enfance et de leur adolescence dans les centres de jeunesse du Québec prennent la parole dans ce film de Louise Rinfret, «L’horizon emmuré». Ils témoignent de la privation de liberté qu’ils ont subie, de leur souffrance et des répercussions sur leur vie de jeunes adultes. Plusieurs des scènes du film ont été tournées clandestinement dans les institutions.

28.01.2005 "Let me describe the scene on the ground here in 'liberated' Iraq. With the 'elections' just three days away, people are terrified. Families are fleeing Baghdad much as they did prior to the invasion of the country...huge lines of cars are stacked up at checkpoints on the outer edges of the city. Policemen and Iraqi soldiers are trying to convince people to stay in the city and vote. Nobody is listening to them."

27.01.2005 If U.S. President George W. Bush is serious about re-engaging with the global community and ending genocide in Sudan, he should support a UN move to refer war crimes committed in the country to the International Criminal Court, the grassroots group Citizens for Global Solutions said Wednesday.

26.01.2005 As Colombian President Alvaro Uribe continues to deny that his country is engaged in armed conflict, civilians face kidnappings and massacres without the protections of international humanitarian law.

25.01.2005 More than half of the land owned by Palestinians in East Jerusalem is expected to be affected by Israel's decision to expropriate the property of "Absentee Landowners." One Palestinian representative to Israel's Knesset called the decision a war crime and a Jewish politician warned that it would "open a Pandora’s box...of legal and moral questions."

24.01.2005 Après les ministres des affaires étrangères du Brésil et de l'Argentine, c'est maintenant le tour du Chef d'État argentin Nestor Kirschner de soulever la question haïtienne devant la communauté internationale.

24.01.2005 A period of relative calm has settled over the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in recent days, but Israel is now considering a plan to dig a trench to stop weapons smugglers along the border between Egypt and Gaza, destroying anywhere from 200 to 3000 Palestinian homes in the process. There are much less destructive ways to accomplish the same goal, human rights defenders said Sunday.

24.01.2005 A new War on Want briefing demonstrates that Israel has breached the human rights conditionality of its bilateral trade agreement with the European Union. It's time for sanctions, says the campaigning group.

24.01.2005 President Bush is expected to soon request $100 billion from Congress for the ongoing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and less than half of one percent of that amount for the tsunami disaster. You can tell your congresspeople what you think U.S. taxpayers' dollars should support.

21.01.2005 The Asian tsunami demonstrated how the media can positively affect efforts to bring relief to people in crisis. Well, Liberia is still in crisis. Tuberculosis has staged an alarming comeback in much of the world. Starvation is rampant in North Korea. Civilan victims of fighting in the Congo and Colombia made the list for the sixth straight year. See what else didn't top the news--but should have--in 2004.

21.01.2005 Even as George W. Bush celebrates his inauguration for a second term as U.S. president, a series of opinion polls--in the United States and in 21 foreign countries--show that Americans largely disapprove of his conduct of the Iraq war, and the rest of the world believes he has made life more dangerous for them, too.

20.01.2005 Reelected by the smallest margin of any incumbent president in more than half a century, George W. Bush--who begins his second term Thursday--faces renewed skepticism over his handling of the ongoing occupation in Iraq, according to two new national polls released this week.

20.01.2005 The conflict between Maoist insurgents and government forces in Nepal has slipped off the radar of the international community. Amnesty says that the UN Commission on Human Rights should dedicate resources to put an end to the illegal killings on both sides.

19.01.2005 Key components of a six-point peace plan--known as Clinton's Permanant Status Settlement Package--and the plan as a whole have received majority support from citizens on both sides of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict for the first time.

19.01.2005 Arab leaders are encouraging Iraqis to vote in the forthcoming election, possibly more out of concern about escalating violence than anticipation of the likely outcome.

19.01.2005 The largest population of displaced people in the Western Hemisphere is in Colombia, where over two million have fled the fighting and terror tactics employed by paramilitary, guerilla, and government forces. A mission to the country hopes to generate support for their cause and promote solutions to the conflict.

19.01.2005 Maoist rebels in Nepal are recruiting children forcibly to serve as insurgents in their battle against the government and monarchy.