Full Coverage: Conflict

28.02.2005 WASHINGTON, D.C., Feb 28 (OneWorld) - Human rights and international aid activists are demanding that the international community move swiftly to protect civilians in Sudan's conflict-ravaged Darfur region, where rights researchers say they have obtained new eyewitness accounts of atrocities by government-backed militias.

25.02.2005 The UN Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE) has expressed concern about the presence of troops on both sides of the border between Eritrea and Ethiopia. The Ethiopians have built up the numbers of their troops over recent months.

25.02.2005 Is it genocide or not? Does that matter? What can we do? Adotei Akwei, Amnesty International's Campaign Director, will address questions and concerns on the two-year Sudanese crisis that has displaced over 1.5 million people and left more than 70,000 dead.

24.02.2005 Chechnya's mountain villages traditionally thrived off the land as locals turned to beekeeping, cattle farming, and potato crops to support their families. But the years of war have been especially unkind to residents of forested mountain areas--suspected of being rebel hide-outs by the Russian military--and many have been totally abandoned as the war drags on.

23.02.2005 WASHINGTON, D.C., Feb 23 (OneWorld) - Nearly two years after the ouster of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, life for Iraqi women has not improved and may actually have deteriorated in some respects, according to a new report released Tuesday by Amnesty International.

23.02.2005 It's not often that someone who believes he could be brought before the International Criminal Court for war crimes seeks out a team of humanitarian aid workers for informal discussions. "Why are criminal prosecutions so important to the international community?" he asked. "Punishment will start the war all over again," he warned. "No women and children have died," the refugee advocates were told over dinner.

21.02.2005 Dans le cadre de la journée internationale d’action contre l’occupation de l’Irak, le Collectif Échec à la guerre organise une grande manifestation à Montréal, samedi le 19 mars à 13h au Carré Dorchester, au coin des rue Peel et René-Lévesque.

20.02.2005 At his inauguration, the newly elected leader of Abkhazia, Sergei Bagapsh, has stated his determination to push for independence and to form a strategic alliance with Russia.

18.02.2005 WASHINGTON, D.C., Feb 18 (OneWorld) - Nepal stands on the ''brink of disaster'' following King Gyanendra Bir Bikram Shah's Feb. 1 military coup and an ensuing wave of human rights violations under a palace-decreed state of emergency, according to Amnesty International.

18.02.2005 The Economist magazine practically predicted Nepal's coup two months before it happened, warning that military aid pouring in from the country's "allies"--the U.S., UK, and India--was stoking the false belief that the Maoist rebellion could be crushed under force of arms. But was Nepal just being used by superpowers fighting their own battles?

18.02.2005 President Bush is faced with a difficult choice--continue to oppose the International Criminal Court on ideological grounds, or give way to overwhelming public opinion and agree to let the Court hear war crimes cases from the Darfur region of Sudan, thereby expediting justice and likely hastening the end of atrocities that continue in the troubled region today. But a group of experts may have found a third way.

17.02.2005 WASHINGTON, D.C., Feb 17 (OneWorld) - Despite his strong opposition, U.S. President George W. Bush is under growing pressure from human rights groups and U.S. allies to refer what his administration has called "genocide" in Darfur, Sudan, to the International Criminal Court (ICC) at The Hague.

16.02.2005 In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where nearly 4 million have died as a result of fighting over the past six years, some 50,000 civilians had fled attacks on their villages during the first month of 2005. Escalating violence has caused another 30-35,000 to flee over the past two weeks, says UNICEF.

14.02.2005 In the 12 years Muzamil Jaleel has reported from Kashmir--the disputed territory between Pakistan and India--his entire body of reporting has focused on bomb blasts, shoot-outs, crackdowns, search operations by the Indian security forces, ambushes and raids by separatist militants, violent deaths and tense funerals. He recently went searching for a single village that hadn't experienced a single casualty from the war. It wasn't easy to find.

12.02.2005

11.02.2005 From terrorism and weapons of mass destruction (WMDs) to hunger, disease and conflicts that reap a deadly toll of tsunami proportions every few months, the world is facing a confluence of threats that only a United Nations reformed for the 21st century can resolve, Secretary-General Kofi Annan said at a seminar on UN reforms in London.

11.02.2005 Nepalese police moved swiftly to smother protests in capital Kathmandu and arrested nearly a dozen people even as it prevented the US ambassador from visiting political leaders under house arrest.

10.02.2005 After the most recent four years of blood-letting, there is no basis for trust on either side, says Gershon Baskin--founder of a jointly-run Israeli and Palestinian think tank--but a small internationally run--and U.S.-led--mediation team could prevent escalation when violence inevitably flares.

10.02.2005 Nepal released seven detained political leaders, including two former prime ministers, but the chiefs of the country's main political parties - Nepali Congress, the Communist Unified Marxist-Leninst party and the Nepali Congress Democratic party - remain under house arrest.

10.02.2005 Diamonds have been responsible for funding bloody conflicts across Africa, resulting in the death and displacement of millions of innocent people. Slowly but surely, however, the diamond industry is beginning to change, and Valentine's Day is a perfect time to educate consumers about their power to encourage that change.