Overseas news archive
February 2006
28.02.2006
The UN needs "strategic reserves" of troops because it is experiencing increasing difficulty in fulfilling peacekeeping demands around the world, says New York University's latest Annual Review of Global Peace Operations.
more...Related topics/regions: [Peace] [United Nations] |
28.02.2006
An immediate end to the US occupation and the deployment of a UN-led peacekeeping force was demanded yesterday by an international women's human rights organisation.
more...From: MADRE Related topics/regions: [United States] [Iraq] [Conflict resolution] [United Nations] |
28.02.2006
The head of Swaziland's oldest political party has pledged to officially register his organisation, testing whether the country's new constitution has really marked the end of decades of a royal decree prohibiting political opposition.
more...From: United Nations' Integrated Regional Information Network Related topics/regions: [Swaziland] [Democracy] |
28.02.2006
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development should not fund Shells Sakhalin II project in Russia's Far East because the projects environmental and social standards are inadequate, an international environmental group said yesterday.
more...From: WWF International Related topics/regions: [Russian Federation] [Energy] [Corporations] |
28.02.2006
Religious movements, including the Catholic, Pentecostal and African churches, are fuelling hatred and violence against children in the Democratic Republic of Congo, according to a new report, The Invention of Child Witches.
more...From: Save the Children UK Related topics/regions: [Congo (Democratic Republic of)] [Religion] Image: SCF logo
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28.02.2006
European Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson was yesterday accused by a leading international development group of making a speech on trade that was "full of excuses and misleading claims".
more...From: Oxfam International Related topics/regions: [Europe] [Trade] Image: Trade Justice campaigner
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27.02.2006
Small-scale poultry farming and wild birds are being blamed for the bird flu crisis when the real culprit is the transnational poultry industry, according to a report out today.
more...From: GRAIN Related topics/regions: [Food] [Corporations] [Disease] Image: Bird flu: who's to blame? (Photo: FAO, Freefoto.com, FAO) © . / SciDev.Net
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27.02.2006
The US President should press his Pakistani counterpart, General Pervez Musharraf, to step down as army chief, hold elections, and restore civilian rule, a leading rights group said ahead of Bush's scheduled to visit Pakistan this week.
more...Related topics/regions: [Pakistan] [United States] [Democracy] [Arms & military] |
27.02.2006
The loss of biological diversity continues to accelerate throughout Europe, officials from 40 governments and environmental organisations concluded at a three-day meeting in Croatia last week.
more...From: Environment News Service (ENS) Related topics/regions: [Europe] [Biodiversity] |
27.02.2006
Iraq is teetering on the threshold of wholesale disaster, warns a new International Crisis Group report, which says low-intensity conflict is in danger of escalating into an all-out civil war that could lead to the countrys disintegration and destabilise the entire region.
more...Related topics/regions: [Iraq] [Conflict] |
27.02.2006
Up to 10 countries, led by France, are expected to agree to impose a tax on air travel tomorrow, with the money used to increase spending on overseas aid.
more...From: Guardian Unlimited Related topics/regions: [France] [Aid] [Finance] |
27.02.2006
Global efforts to combat bioterrorism are on a potential collision course with legitimate biotechnology activities that hold the promise of improving life for millions of poor people, the Canadian Program on Genomics and Global Health warns in a new report.
more...Related topics/regions: [Canada] [Poverty] [Terrorism] |
24.02.2006
The wind energy industry installed more than $14 billion worth of new generating equipment around the world last year, a 25 per cent increase over the previous year, according to the Global Wind Energy Council.
more...From: Environment News Service (ENS) Related topics/regions: [Climate change] [Renewable energy] |
24.02.2006
Kenya is facing a disaster of "immense proportions" because of unprecedented drought and the Africa-wide collapse of small-scale and household farming, a development group warned yesterday.
more...* UN envoy urges global community to explore root causes of hunger From: Agency for Co-operation and Research in Development Related topics/regions: [East Africa] [Kenya] [Emergency relief] Image: Food storage depot, Kenya © Peter Armstrong
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24.02.2006
The President of the United Nations General Assembly yesterday unveiled a draft blueprint for a Human Rights Council with higher status and greater accountability than the much-criticised Human Rights Commission that meets yearly in Geneva.
more...From: United Nations Related topics/regions: [Human rights] [United Nations] Image: UN Commission on Human Rights © United Nations
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24.02.2006
Ballots were being counted across Uganda on Friday after the countrys first multiparty presidential and parliamentary elections in 26 years ended peacefully, election officials said.
more...* Yoweri Museveni: running on empty From: United Nations' Integrated Regional Information Network Related topics/regions: [Uganda] [Democracy] |
24.02.2006
An end to continuing violence against lesbians in South Africa has been demanded by the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission following a recent murder by a gang of men in Cape Town.
more...Related topics/regions: [South Africa] [Sexuality] [Social exclusion] |
23.02.2006
Firm commitments from rich countries to fund the response to the food crisis in East Africa are not being made quickly enough, a leading international aid agency said today.
more...From: Oxfam International Related topics/regions: [Kenya] [Emergency relief] [Food] [United Nations] |
23.02.2006
European Union Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson and his US counterpart Rob Portman were urged yesterday to make concessions to ensure that the Doha Round of trade negotiations benefits developing countries.
more...From: Oxfam International Related topics/regions: [Europe] [United States] [Trade] Image: Trade Justice Movement lobby of Parliament
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23.02.2006
Armed youths killed dozens of people and set fire to mosques and Muslim properties in more revenge attacks against Muslims in the mainly Christian southern Nigerian city of Onitsha yesterday.
more...From: United Nations' Integrated Regional Information Network Related topics/regions: [Nigeria] [Religion] |
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