Full Coverage: Peace

31.08.2006 Sri Lankan organisation Sarvodaya is holding a meditation for peace initiative on October 2, 2006 - Mahatma Gandhi's birthday - at the sacred city of Anuradhapura. Sarvodaya expects to host one million people from all over the world - the largest gathering in Sri Lanka’s history - clad in white clothes to meditate for peace.

30.08.2006

Balochistan Province

It was reported that fighter jets and helicopters attacked the south western province of Balochistan, killing some 37 government opponents, including a former governor and chief minister of the province, Sardar Akbar Khan Bugti.

30.08.2006 UNITED NATIONS, Aug 29 (OneWorld) - Amid fears that escalating violence could unleash another round of humanitarian catastrophe in Sudan's Darfur region, rights advocacy groups are urging the world community to take immediate steps to protect civilians.

29.08.2006 On the eve of the International Day of the Disappeared (30 August), the Council for the Defence of Human Rights and Freedoms - CDHRF organized today a roundtable on the topic “Intensification of activities for identification of the missing”.

28.08.2006 The UN has appointed Ian Martin as the new envoy to Nepal to spearhead efforts to promote peace in the troubled Himalayan country. The envoy has previously served on several occasions as special envoy to Timor-Leste.

21.08.2006 A tall lanky youth rounds a bend in a mountain path and sees a group, stripped of their packs, resting in the shade of a tree near a small waterfall. He approaches, says hello and shakes hands with those nearest and then stretches and even clambers up a small incline to clasp hands with everyone, rare behaviour in this remote hill region.

08.08.2006 It's a good thing Tony Blair was still at home Saturday as tens of thousands of demonstrators showed up to demand he restore their country's integrity over issues of war and peace. Anuradha Vittachi was there.

07.08.2006 SAN FRANCISCO, Aug 7 (OneWorld) - Protesters took to the streets around the world this weekend to oppose Israel's attacks on Lebanon and call for an immediate ceasefire. Demonstrations took place in London, Brussels, Cape Town, Cairo, Tel Aviv, Sarajevo, and across Indonesia.

07.08.2006 Activists of the „Objection for Peace“ Regional Network held protests, Friday, August 4, in Sarajevo, to protest the latest escalation of violence in the Middle East.

04.08.2006 "How many more Qana massacres before the voice of sanity brings this carnage to an end?" What you do on Saturday can make a difference. Outraged people from across the UK are arriving in London with children's shoes to lay at Tony Blair's doorstep. Will you be there?

04.08.2006 The “Objection for Peace” Regional Network, throughout the last four years of its existence, has opposed any type of war and violence, has worked on prevention and termination of ongoing wars, and remains dedicated to principles and values of pacifism and non-violence in its work to demilitarize public awareness.

04.08.2006 SAN FRANCISCO, Aug 3 (OneWorld) - Israeli authorities have sentenced an army officer to 28 days in a military prison for refusing to serve in the ongoing Israeli campaign in Lebanon.

02.08.2006 A new peace process has been initiated to end ethnic clashes in Sri Lanka. With an imminent danger of a full-scale war breaking out in the island nation, prominent personalities in India and neighbouring countries will work on evolving a long-term peace solution.