Overseas news archive

29.11.2006 Pashtun traditional values are "being drowned out in a sea of blood," warned hundreds of political leaders and tribal chiefs at a peace jirga last week, calling forcefully for an end to Taliban violence in both Afghanistan and Pakistan.

29.11.2006 Indymedia activists report from Tonga, where riots broke out this month calling for democratic reforms. The demonstrators argue that the monarchy and current economic system only benefit the country's top 1 percent.

27.11.2006 If Sudan's president does not act to end the bloodshed in Darfur, he will have to answer to a war crimes court, a top UK diplomat said last week. "If there are more atrocities," he added, it will be because "a government denied protection to its people."

27.11.2006 "A woman was supposed to be seen and not heard," says the co-founder of the community group Womankind Kenya, which runs girls' schools and helps change attitudes among families and tribal leaders. "Now I'm being heard."

27.11.2006 A correspondent for the BBC and Daily Dawn, who has been reporting on the Pakistani army's fight with pro-Taliban militants, was kidnapped, beaten, and interrogated about his reporting last week.
From: International Freedom of Expression eXchange

27.11.2006 Some 100,000 children in India have called on their government to fulfill its promise to commit 9% of GDP to education and health spending.

27.11.2006 With peace finally taking root in Nepal, parents are searching for lost children and the United Nations is coming down firm against the use of child soldiers.

21.11.2006 Debt campaigners are pleased about Friday's decision to waive odious debts assigned to five Latin American countries, but are concerned that the relief could still be watered down and subject to unfair conditions.
From: Jubilee USA

21.11.2006 A hearing in Paris Tuesday will consider the case of Jasmeet Singh, one of four French-Sikh schoolboys excluded from school in September for refusing to remove their Turbans.

21.11.2006 SAN FRANCISCO, Nov 21 (OneWorld) - A New York-based non-profit stepped up a petition drive Tuesday aimed at pushing the Bush administration to engage the international community to bring peace to Iraq.

21.11.2006 As the Sudanese government escalates attacks against civilians and reportedly reneges on a new peacekeeping agreement, the U.S. and other key UN members are being urged to stand firm in the pursuit of a peacekeeping force that can provide protection for the people of Darfur.

21.11.2006 Over 400 demonstrated in Hong Kong Sunday to call for an end to the targeted assassinations of human rights defenders and social justice activists in the Philippines.

21.11.2006 Tuberculosis and chicken pox threaten the existence of Colombia's indigenous Nukak-Maku people, whose long term survival requires their return to home areas in the rainforest currently jeopardized by the country's drugs war.

21.11.2006 UNITED NATIONS, Nov 20 (OneWorld) - There are signs that key U.S. officials are ready to take on global warming, even as much of the world community failed to show its will to deal with the impending threat at a recent global conference.

21.11.2006 Nearly 115 million school-aged children will not be in school on Universal Children's Day today--and not because it's a holiday. To help combat this, the Centre for Development and Population Activities has launched community-based non-formal education programs in three southern African countries.

19.11.2006 NEW DELHI, Nov 19 (OneWorld) - Exiled political leaders from Burma have expressed their anguish at the Indian government's policy of appeasing the Burmese military junta that has internationally been seen as committing gross human rights violations and suppressing its own people.

17.11.2006 The Sudanese government has agreed "in principle" to the UN's involvement in peacekeeping operations to quell the rapidly deteriorating situation in Darfur, which now threatens to destabilize neighboring countries as well.

16.11.2006 It is the size of Western Europe and one of the poorest--and most resource-rich--countries in the world. If political rivals keep their promise of non-violence following Wednesday's election pronouncement, the Congo may soon truly be a democratic republic.

16.11.2006 They are caught in no-man's land--literally. Palestinians who have lived in Iraq for years now face only threats and death there, and the Syrian border has been closed to them.

16.11.2006 SAN FRANCISCO, Nov 16 (OneWorld) - A leading anti-poverty organization is urging U.S. President George W. Bush to skip a meal today as a symbol of his resolve to fight hunger worldwide.