Full Coverage: Conflict

31.10.2005 Prime Minister Hun Sen has launched a crackdown on government critics, in what may be the most severe assault on dissent in Cambodia in years, ordering the arrests of a prominent radio station director and several other civil society leaders.

31.10.2005 WASHINGTON, D.C., Oct 31 (OneWorld) - The murder of a well-known peace activist in Colombia has highlighted endemic violence in the Latin American country, and the vulnerability of people trying to resist it, despite high-profile steps toward ending civil war.

31.10.2005 In anticipation of renewed fighting with rebel forces, the Ivorian government is recruiting Liberian children alongside hundreds of other former combatants in Liberia’s civil war, said leading human rights group.

30.10.2005 SAN FRANCISCO, Oct 28 (OneWorld) - Echoing recent comments by White House officials, a U.S. government report submitted to the United Nations last Friday bears a message that the brutal treatment of people held in U.S. military custody abroad is and should be legal.

27.10.2005 Tilanne Sudanin Darfurissa heikentyy nopeasti, YK:n pakolaiskomissaari kertoo. Jos Länsi-Darfurin väkivaltaisuudet leviävät, saattavat myös naapurimaat kohdata vakavia seurauksia, komissaari tulkitsee. Esimerkiksi köyhässä Tšadissa on jo nyt 200 000 Sudanin pakolaista.

27.10.2005 The situation in Sudan's Darfur region is deteriorating sharply, warns the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, who says that a further calamity there could have "a devastating impact" on neighbouring countries.

27.10.2005 Heavy-handed tactics by the Uganda army against northern rebels are condemned by a leading development charity, which seeks international pressure on the government to protect civilians and aid convoys.

27.10.2005 POKHARA: Participants, at an interaction organised by the Resource Development Centre Nepal on Wednesday, said that conflict was creating hurdles in attaining millennium development goals in the country. As long as there is stability in Nepal, goals cannot be achieved, they said. Associate professor Dr Lekhnath Bhattarai presented a report which said as long as conflicts, instability, corruption and inequality exist, MDGs will never be achieved.

26.10.2005 More than 2,000 U.S. soldiers have been killed in Iraq, but that's just the beginning of the story behind the numbers, says CODEPINK and Global Exchange founder Medea Benjamin.

26.10.2005 U.S. Ambassador John Bolton recently called for U.N. to take action, not merely talk about the deteriorating situation in Darfur, but the arms embargo he's suggesting would be ineffective and insufficient, say Africa advocates, urging Bolton to do more.

26.10.2005 SAN FRANCISCO, Oct 26 (OneWorld) - A day after the two-thousandth U.S. soldier died in the Iraq war, much of the American public seems to have decided that disgruntled answers to surveys won't end the bloodshed.

26.10.2005 La Costituzione irachena è stata approvata con il 78% degli iracheni che hanno partecipato al voto. La bocciatura a larga maggioranza nelle provincie di Al-Anbar e di Salahuddin, entrambe sunnite non è arrivata nella provincia di Ninive, dove si trova la città di Mosul. In questa zona i voti a favore del testo hanno raggiunto il 44%, mentre i 'nò si sono attestati al 55%. Pur avendo vinto in questa terza provincia, la percentuale è stata troppo bassa per permettere la bocciatura della bozza di Costituzione. Una nuova fase di "federazione" nel dramma iracheno, come scrive David Hirst sul quotidiano britannico Guardian. "Questa Costituzione è tanto illegale quanto l'occupazione da parte delle forze di aggressione guidate dagli Stati Uniti: per questo la nuova Carta non ha alcun futuro" ha dichiarato Samir Amin, 74 anni, economista di fama internazionale, egiziano di nascita e francese d'adozione. Secondo un sondaggio, effettuato per conto del Ministero della Difesa ed esaminato dal Sunday Telegraph, il 65% degli iracheni sostiene gli attacchi contro le truppe britanniche.

25.10.2005 Stoves requiring less wood or charcoal fuel not only help curb deforestation and air pollutants, they also decrease the time women and children must spend outside the safety of the camp, say refugee advocates.

25.10.2005 Two peace activists were arrested in Whitehall on Tuesday for organising an unauthorised "bell-ringing" remembrance ceremony marking the anniversary this week of the Lancet estimate that 100,000 people have died in Iraq of war-related causes.

23.10.2005 UNITED NATIONS, Oct 21 (OneWorld) - With images of terrorism and armed conflicts broadcast across the world's televisions and newspapers everyday, many may believe that the world is more dangerous and insecure than ever before, but a new study suggests otherwise.

23.10.2005 With exhausted healthcare workers running out of supplies and infectious disease spreading, the Bush administration rejected the offer of 1,500 medical doctors and 37 tons of supplies from Cuba in the days immediately following Hurricane Katrina.

23.10.2005 As the Indian and Pakistani governments continue to taint aid efforts with self interest and calculated power plays, winter descends upon the hardest hit areas in Kashmir, limiting access and stranding survivors without desperately needed supplies, writes Indian political analyst Parful Bidwai.

19.10.2005 NEW YORK, Oct 19 (OneWorld) - Alarmed by the kidnapping of a well-known peace activist in Colombia last weekend, international aid and refugee rights groups are urging the world community to ask the Colombian government to take action against the paramilitaries involved in the incident.

18.10.2005 Democracy is not the same as liberty, reminds national security expert Ivan Eland. Until liberty takes root for all Iraqis--including the disaffected Sunnis--U.S. and Iraqi officials should not expect a reprieve from violence, no matter how many democratic votes they hold, he says.

18.10.2005 On the day after the 2,000th reported U.S. military death in Iraq, the pro-peace majority will spring into action, telling Congress "Not one more death. Not one more dollar." There are currently 142 events planned in 34 states; find one near you or organize your own.