Full Coverage: Conflict

30.06.2005 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.

29.06.2005 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]

29.06.2005 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.

29.06.2005 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?

24.06.2005 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.

24.06.2005 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.

24.06.2005 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.

23.06.2005 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.

23.06.2005 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.

23.06.2005 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.

23.06.2005 The EZLN declared a Red Alert on June 19th. Read the original communiqué signed by Subcomandante Marcos.

23.06.2005 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.

23.06.2005 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.

23.06.2005 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.

22.06.2005 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.

22.06.2005 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.

21.06.2005 The international diamond certification scheme known as the Kimberley Process is due for review next year. Campaigners say that participating countries are not fulfilling their reporting obligations and that diamonds continue to fund conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo and in Cote D'Ivoire.

20.06.2005 With the fizzling out of the revolts staged by the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) and the politicised section of the Buddhist clergy, the last obstacles on the road to an agreement between the Sri Lankan government and the LTTE on a Joint Mechanism to supervise post-tsunami reconstruction have vanished.

17.06.2005 The Sri Lankan government's main ally quit the ruling coalition on Thursday, angry at plans to share tsunami aid with Tamil Tiger rebels and reducing the alliance to a hamstrung minority seen limping on for now. The exit of the Marxist People's Liberation Front (JVP) seriously weakens President Chandrika Kumaratunga's government and means it will struggle to legislate, but the main opposition has vowed not to oust it yet.

17.06.2005 The Sri Lankan government's main ally quit the ruling coalition on Thursday, angry at plans to share tsunami aid with Tamil Tiger rebels and reducing the alliance to a hamstrung minority seen limping on for now. The exit of the Marxist People's Liberation Front (JVP) seriously weakens President Chandrika Kumaratunga's government and means it will struggle to legislate, but the main opposition has vowed not to oust it yet.