Overseas news archive

24.04.2006 Outside intervention is needed in Nepal to stop King Gyanendra from allowing the army and police to attack demonstrators, a leading Asian rights group said in a statement today.
* On the spot report
* Nepal’s national vitamin A campaign proceeds despite unrest
* OneWorld UK Guide to Nepal

24.04.2006 Nine men detained for homosexuality in Cameroon have been acquitted of all charges after being detained for almost a year.

24.04.2006 Thousands of supporters of the UK National Anti-Vivisection Society will be hitting the streets during International Lab Animal Week (24-30 April), with a new leaflet on experiments in UK laboratories.

23.04.2006 As demonstrations continued in Nepal, security forces in several locations violently dispersed protestors, according to UN officials who visited the injured and criticised the excessive use of force.
* Eye-witness reports

23.04.2006 There is a real risk that industrialised countries will not keep promises made last year to fight poverty, or will keep them only by double counting debt cancellation as part of aid, a development group said as finance ministers gathered for the Spring meetings of the G7, IMF and World Bank.

21.04.2006 "Ordinary citizens (housewives, children, elderly, youth) have supported ongoing movement and protested king's regime by chanting anti-monarch slogans and striking household utensils from their respective houses in Anamnagar, Ghatekula, Baneshwor in Kathmandu." The news as it unfolded in Kathmandu yesterday.

21.04.2006 The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development should not fund Shell's proposed construction of the world's largest hydrocarbon project in Russia's Far East without improved environmental mitigation measures, says a leading environmental group.

21.04.2006 A disastrous combination of a worsening humanitarian situation, Government obstruction, rebel violence and weakened support of the international community has left relief operations in Sudan’s Darfur region on the verge of breakdown, placing millions of people at risk, the top UN humanitarian official told the Security Council yesterday.
* Coming weeks crucial for international action
* Refugee voices: abduction and displacement in Sudan

21.04.2006 A coalition of conservation organisations is calling on the US Administration to vigorously oppose Japanese efforts to gain international approval for whaling at the forthcoming meeting of the International Whaling Commission.

21.04.2006 Over 20,000 people on death row across the world are waiting to be killed by their own governments.

21.04.2006 The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies is appealing for $13.4 million to fund its response to the worldwide spread of avian influenza and a potential human influenza pandemic.

21.04.2006 A therapy for treating people infected with both HIV and tuberculosis could speed the emergence of drug-resistant forms of TB, a news study warns.

21.04.2006 A new Latin American initiative, the Network for the Disappeared, includes a website that aims to encourage the public to report cases of people trafficking.

21.04.2006 About 3.5 million Kenyans face the threat of starvation as the food crisis worsens, despite recent rains, a development charity warned yesterday.

21.04.2006 South Africa's best known AIDS group has refused to accept an invitation to attend next month’s UN session on AIDS as part of the government's delegation unless an invitation is also extended to the AIDS Law Project, which has been monitoring the government’s anti-retroviral treatment programme and highlights the human rights aspects of the epidemic.

20.04.2006 At least three demonstrators were killed and 50 injured in Kathmandu on Thursday as police clashed with a huge crowd of pro-democracy protesters, and former prime minister Krishna Prasad Bhattarai rejected King Gyanendra’s invitation to become leader of the government.

20.04.2006 The role of botanic gardens in improving human health is outlined in a new report that says two-thirds of the world's plants may be extinct by the end of the century.

20.04.2006 Huge crowds were gathering in Kathmandu this morning to prepare to break a shoot-on-sight 18-hour curfew, despite fears - fuelled by a refusal of curfew passes to journalists - of harsh measures by the security forces.#
* OneWorld UK Guide to Nepal
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20.04.2006 Brazil and Kenya will call for an international fund for research on "neglected diseases" at a World Health Organization meeting next month.

20.04.2006 More than 200 Nepalese journalists have been detained since 4 April while participating in pro-democracy protests or while covering the demonstrations, according to the Federation of Nepalese Journalists, and 31 remain in custody.