Full Coverage: Peace

29.09.2006 Recent events in Lebanon and the stalemate in the Middle East peace process have demonstrated the growing failure of the Security Council to tackle issues under its mandate, the Defence Minister of India told the General Assembly, calling for reform of the 15-member body.

27.09.2006 SAN FRANCISCO, Sep 27 (OneWorld) - The fate of a U.S. Army medic who went AWOL rather than return for a second tour in Iraq is unclear today after he turned himself in to military authorities.

27.09.2006 Amnesty International expressed its concern over the news that, unless a compromise is reached, the decision on the final status of Kosovo may be imposed and dictated from outside, without the necessary consultation.

27.09.2006 Hedvig Morvai-Horvat, the Director of Citizen’s Pact for SEE since 2002, is this year’s winner of the recognition prize of: “Winning Freedom” (Osvajanje Slobode). The prize is given by the Maja Marsicevic-Tasic Foundation.

23.09.2006 NEW YORK, Sep 22 (OneWorld) - A nationwide civil disobedience campaign aiming to force the administration of President George W. Bush and the U.S. Congress to end the military occupation of Iraq is now in full swing.

22.09.2006 In New York Secretary-General Kofi Annan rang the Peace Bell, on the seared fields of conflict in Somalia appeals rang out to end the violence and in Afghanistan children flew the once forbidden kites of hope as the United Nations system today marked the annual International Day of Peace from its stately Headquarters building to the furthest flung trenches of warfare.

19.09.2006 Within the global activities organized on the occasion of September 21, International Day of Peace, the Ars Studio NGO will open an art and graphic novel exhibition with works by Macedonian and foreign authors. The exhibition will be officially opened on Thursday, September 21, 20:00 hours, at the “Sv. Kliment Ohridski” National and University Library in Skopje.

19.09.2006 The Serb Democratic Forum (SDF) protested the increased frequency of attacks on Ivana Dulic Markovic, Vice-President of Serbian Government, by some media and political parties of the extreme right. Dulic-Markovic is targeted because of her national and ethnic background.

18.09.2006 NEW YORK, Sep 18 (OneWorld) - Human rights and peace activists in many parts of the world took to the streets Sunday protesting the international community's failure to stop the ongoing bloody ethnic conflict in Sudan's Darfur region.

12.09.2006 The United Nations General Assembly adopted a comprehensive global strategy to counter terrorism, overcoming differences between Member States and a year of often fractious negotiations to agree for the first time on a common approach to fighting the scourge.

05.09.2006 On September 6, the OSCE Mission in Croatia and the Ministry of Science, Education and Sports will launch literary and artistic competition in multicultural schools in Vukovar-Srijem and Osijek-Baranja Districts. The competition is titled “Children Together”.

04.09.2006 India's landmark decision to send 125 female police officers - one complete specialized unit - to assist United Nations peacekeeping operations in Liberia next month is an "unprecedented" move that sends a message not only to other post-conflict countries about the importance of having women officers, but also to police contributing nations, senior UN officials.

01.09.2006 NEW YORK, Sep 1 (OneWorld) - International humanitarian organizations and United Nations officials have welcomed the truce between Uganda's government and the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) rebels, amid calls for sustained and consistent efforts for a long-lasting peace.

01.09.2006 The Centre for Peace Studies (original acronym CMS) sent a letter to Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic, Minister of Foreign Affairs, and President Stjepan Mesic, proposing Croatian official sponsorship of the UN Resolution on “Effective International Control over Exports, Imports and Transfer of Conventional Weapons”, recently submitted by the governments of Argentina, Australia, Costa Rica, Finland, Japan, Kenya and Great Britain.