Full Coverage: Peace

31.08.2005 Six years after the end of the war, over 450 persons are still considered missing in the Prizren region, announced the Council for Defense of Human Rights and Freedoms (CDHRF).

31.08.2005 After the hue and cry by relatives of prisoner Sarabjit Singh, an Indian facing death penalty in Pakistan, the governments of India and Pakistan have taken a decision to release all fishermen and civilian prisoners. There are more than 400 Indians and 700 Pakistanis in prisons in Pakistan and India respectively.

29.08.2005 An Indian NGO plans to send two lakh emails to the Pakistani government as part of an appeal to release an Indian prisoner who has been sentenced to death. This comes on the heels of similar other appeals, petitions and requests to Pakistan for a pardon for Sarabjit Singh who is facing a death penalty for his alleged involvement in bomb blasts in Lahore.

16.08.2005 The German Government made a donation of 150 thousand Euro to speed up the process of search for the missing persons in conflicts of former Yugoslavia, said the International Commission on Missing Persons from Sarajevo.

16.08.2005 GUSH KATIF, Gaza Strip, Aug 13 (IPS) - He is bronzed, carries a pistol prominently on his hip, and generally looks the part but Socrate Soussan does not sound like a typical Jewish settler in Gaza.

15.08.2005 OSCE Secretary General Marc Perrin de Brichambaut discussed the future role of the OSCE in Kosovo in talks with the international administration, leaders of Kosovo's Provisional Institutions of Self-Government and representatives of the Kosovo Serb community this week.

12.08.2005 On July 11, over 30,000 people gathered at the Potocari Memorial Centre, for the Commemoration Ceremony on the 10th Anniversary of the Genocide. The majority of them were family members that came there to mourn their dead, as well as to burry the remains of 610 identified victims, exhumed from mass graves across Eastern Bosnia.

12.08.2005 Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has emerged as a leading candidate to challenge the hugely popular former football star George Weah in Liberia's October presidential election. Sirleaf possesses impressive credentials as a Harvard-trained former UNDP finance minister and is has much credibility with the international community, but will this be enough to win her the trust of the electorate?

10.08.2005 The U.N. peacekeeping force in Congo has accomplished much success in returning IDPs to their homes, says Refugees International, encouraging the Bush administration to devote more resources to peacekeeping missions.

10.08.2005 Join security expert Michael Renner Thursday for a discussion that explores how disarming postwar societies can lead to a more peaceful world.

10.08.2005 Minister of Civil Affairs of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Mr. Safet Halilovic, together with the Ambassador of the Netherlands in BiH, H.E. Mr. Karel Vosskuhler, cut the ribbon in Ugorsko, a village in the Sarajevo Municipality of Vogosca, marking the commencement of this year’s mine clearance activities within UNDP Integrated Mine Action Programme.

08.08.2005 On Friday, August 5, a group of Albanian, Bosniac and Egyptian youth from the Youth Network Peja , supported by youth of Deçan/Decani, Klina and Istog/Istok, on Friday launched the promotional campaign "Standards for Kosovo" in Peja/Pec.

07.08.2005 The man who started one of the longest and most deadly conflicts since World War II was also a unifier and a staunch proponent of equal rights for all. His death leaves a massive hole in Sudan's fragile political fabric, says NGO expert Abdelbagi Jibril, explaining that the country's chances for peace all depend on what happens next.

07.08.2005 WASHINGTON, D.C., Aug 6 (OneWorld) - The threat of nuclear destruction--from existing stockpiles, a new arms race, or at the hands of terrorists or rogue states--looms large 60 years after the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, peace activists have warned.

05.08.2005 Amnesty International (AI) says today, on its web-site, that ten years after the completion of military-police offensive code named “The Storm”, which was followed by crimes against the Serb civilians, the Croatian judiciary failed to provide justice for all victims of war crimes and crimes against humanity.

05.08.2005 Last Friday, July 29, Ljiljana Zelen Karadjic, the wife of the war crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic, surprised Bosnian, Serbian and global public and political establishment with the call to her husband to surrender to the authorities.

01.08.2005 The North-South peace deal in Sudan may face its toughest test yet after John Garang, who led rebel forces' decades-long struggle for autonomy and was sworn-in as the country's vice-president just weeks ago, died in a helicopter crash Sunday.