Full Coverage: Peace

30.05.2005 A group of Non-Governmental Organizations from Belgrade submitted an initiative to the Skupstina of the Republic of Serbia (the Parliament) to adopt a Declaration on Srebrenica.

29.05.2005 Several non-governmental organizations and political parties announced an initiative with the Skupstina (Serbian Parliament) for an adoption of a Declaration on Srebrenica.

26.05.2005 La capitale bolivienne a passé la journée d'hier isolée du reste du pays en raison des manifestations et des barrages de routes, auxquelles s'ajoutera aujourd'hui la fermeture de son aéroport international. Le président Carlos Mesa a répété qui continuera son mandat jusqu'en 2007 tandis que se multiplient les doutes sur cette possibilité.

24.05.2005 The 12th Peace Conference, organized by the “With Heart to Peace” Initiative and the Women Association of Bosnia and Herzegovina, started yesterday in Kozarac, the biggest returnee settlement in the Prijedor area. The Conference is titled “Twelve Years Since the First Peace Conference and Ten Years After Dayton”.

20.05.2005 They were noisy and unpleasant. Their t-shirts read “Radovan is Serb Hero”. They are members of the "Nomokanon" association and they organized a debate that disputed the facts on the crime in Srebrenica. They insult, swear and spit on all those that oppose their efforts to deny the crime. Their favourite slogan “we will kill you all”.

20.05.2005 “This Government (of Serbia) is opposed to the process of facing the recent wartime past. Instead of facing the past, it attempts to downplay the war-crimes and put an equal sign between all sides in the wars”, said Sonja Biserko, the President of the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Serbia, in her lecture given at the “War Crimes, Genocide and Memory” seminar, held in Dubrovnik.

18.05.2005

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16.05.2005 UN officials in Kosovo said that they have started exhumations from a grave that has been found in the vicinity of Malisheva. According to Jose Pablo Baraybar, Head of the Office of Missing Persons and Legal Health, so far seven bodies were found, but he suspects that there are more bodies. According to him, on the basis of the available information the bodies belong Serbs.

16.05.2005 Serbian Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica proposed to Bajram Kosumi, his counterpart in Kosovo, to hold the first meeting on May 24, in Prizren, Kosovo.

13.05.2005 The exhumation of bodies from the mass grave in Suha village, near Bratunac, was completed yesterday, May 12. 38 bodies of killed women, children and elderly people were found in the grave. It is assumed that the bodies belong to Bosniaks killed at the beggining of Bosnian War on the territory of Bratunac Municipality.

10.05.2005 The House of Peoples of the B&H Parliamentary Assembly adopted the Anti-Fascism Resolution, passed ten days ago by the House of the Representatives. The adoption of this document by the House of Peoples of the Parliamentary Assembly was accompanied by heated verbal exchange between the political parties from the BH Federation and the Republic of Srpska.

09.05.2005 WASHINGTON, D.C., May 9 (OneWorld) - A leading rights watchdog has urged the African Union (AU) to hasten and enlarge its deployment of peacekeepers to Sudan's war-blighted Darfur region amid warnings the humanitarian situation there is worsening.

09.05.2005 After a week of fighting that displaced tens of thousands and may or may not have involved Rwandan troops,Congolese dissident leaders agreed to a ceasefire Tuesday. The UN mission to the country immediately announced that peacekeepers and humanitarian aid would be sent to the region.

09.05.2005 One of Sudan's two deadly conflicts may be close to ending this week as officials said they expect to finalize a comprehensive peace agreement within a few days. The deal would cover national power-sharing arrangements and administration of territories while imposing a permanent ceasefire after 21 years of fighting.

09.05.2005 "We are convinced that the presence of U.S. troops is a destabilizing force in the region and contributes to the increasing loss of life," a prominent faith-based humanitarian group said Wednesday. Noting that a solid majority in the U.S. now believe the war was a mistake, the group called for the U.S. to give way so the UN and other agencies, working with the Iraqi interim government, can bring peace and stability.

09.05.2005 Following their first ever “face-to-face” meeting earlier this week, representatives of the Ugandan government and the rebel Lord’s Resistance Army are due to sign a ceasefire accord Friday. The accord is expected to be a forerunner to formal negotiations to end the 18-year conflict that has displaced more than 1.6 million people.

05.05.2005 The exhibition of socially engaged posters “Farewell to Arms, Farewell to War”, organized by Vojvodjanka – Regional Women Initative, the Office of the Provincial Ombudsman and the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad, will open for visitors on May 5, at the Hall of the Vojvodina Executive Council Building in Novi Sad.

03.05.2005 The North-South peace agreement for Sudan signed in January is historic by any standards, as it brings to an end 21 years of bloody conflict. But as war still rages in Darfur, why is this agreement significant? How will it affect Darfur and what can be done to make sure it holds? As UN peacekeepers are arriving in the country, Care answers all these questions and more.