Overseas news archive

31.05.2006 UN agencies have resumed food distribution to camps in East Timor holding 100,000 displaced people but conditions are worsening due to overcrowding and rain.

31.05.2006 Professor Colin Samson has won the Pierre Savard Award for his book on the forced assimilation of the Innu people of Canada's Labrador-Québec peninsula.

31.05.2006 Afghan authorities have arrested four men in connection with the killing of three ActionAid staff members on Tuesday.

31.05.2006 Rich countries' G8 promise to ensure universal access to treatment for HIV and AIDS will be broken unless firm commitments are made at this week’s UN conference on HIV and AIDS, campaigners said yesterday.
* Most countries missing targets, says Annan
* UNAIDS 2006 Report on the epidemic
* Faith-based groups urge bigger commitment
* popuplink http://www.aidsalliance.org/sw5207.asp?page=0 Leaders dodge treatment target>

31.05.2006 A Californian appeal court’s decision that online journalists and bloggers have the same right to protect their sources as other kinds of journalists has been hailed as "historic".

31.05.2006 Despite almost seven years of international administration, the criminal justice system continues to fail victims in Kosovo, an international rights group says a new report.

31.05.2006 Donor governments need to take immediate action to prevent UN refugee agency programmes from suffering drastic cuts in 2007.

31.05.2006 The divisions and vested interests that emerged openly yesterday within the European Union over its farm policies threaten to wreck the opportunity for world trade talks to deliver development to poor countries, an international agency warned.

31.05.2006 Three women members of staff of international charity ActionAid were shot and killed yesterday while working in Afghanistan's Shaberghan province, 500 kilometres from Kabul.
* Seven aid workers killed

30.05.2006 Britain's National Association of Teachers in Further and Higher Education yesterday approved an academic boycott of Israeli higher education institutions that do not condemn Israel's "apartheid policy".
The decision will have an official shelf life of less than three days, as on Thursday the two unions will merge, and the resolution will only be advisory to the new union.

30.05.2006 Mogadishu's Keysaney hospital was taken by armed fighters yesterday, despite repeated calls by the International Committee of the Red Cross and the Somali Red Crescent Society for medical facilities to be spared.

30.05.2006 Nepal's Hindu majority is denouncing the recent move to end the country's long-time status as the world's only Hindu state, says Bikash Sangraula.

30.05.2006 The moment of truth for the world's largest dam will arrive on 6 June, when the main concrete wall of China's Three Gorges Dam must begin to hold water after a temporary coffer dam is demolished in a series of explosions.
* Three Gorges Campaign

30.05.2006 A "week of mourning" is being held by an Asian rights group in protest against a series of judicial appointments that it says contravene the constitution.

30.05.2006 International union groupings have asked European trade representatives to suspend Belarus’s trade preferences because of the Lukashenko regime’s trade union rights violations.

30.05.2006 Power blackouts and overnight rain hampered rescue work in the wake of the Indonesian earthquake and heaped misery on people who left their homes.
* Supplies arrive
* Oxfam supporting 20,000 people

29.05.2006 Radioactive tritium from a nuclear waste storage facility in France is leaking into groundwater being used by dairy cattle.

29.05.2006 Emergency supplies for people left homeless by Saturday’s Indonesian earthquake are being distributed in the worst-affected areas of Yogyakarta today.
* World Wide Help: earthquake blog
* First emergency food arrives for Indonesia earthquake victims
* Effective state responses needed in dealing with earthquake aftermath
* Water and supplies for survivors
* Thousands reported killed in central Java earthquake; UNICEF responds
* Red Cross Red Crescent launches emergency appeal
* Christian Aid
* Doctors and nurses helping in villages
* World Vision teams dispatched
* Mercy Corps responds
* First MSF teams to Indonesia earthquake
* Save the Children responds

29.05.2006 South African police are targetting people they perceive to be foreigners for harassment, according to human rights bodies.

27.05.2006 Oxfam said its emergency teams were working around the clock to bring clean drinking water and essential supplies to thousands of people made homeless by the Yogyakarta earthquake on Saturday.
* Thousands reported killed in central Java earthquake; UNICEF responds
* Red Cross Red Crescent launches emergency appeal
* Christian Aid
* Partners help those affected by Java earthquake
* Earthquake kills more than 2,500
* Mercy Corps responds
* First MSF teams to Indonesia earthquake
* Save the Children responds instantly