Full Coverage: Conflict

28.04.2008 Kolumbian naisia, erityisesti maaseudulla asuvia, mustia tai intiaaneja, uhkaa jatkuvasti kova kohtalo maata repivän konfliktin uhreina. Ihmisoikeusloukkaukset ja köyhyys koettelevat erityisesti naisia.

25.04.2008 A photoessay reveals the toll 17 years of conflict, political instability, droughts, floods, and an international community struggling to provide aid has taken on Somalia.

25.04.2008 Zimbabwen kirkot alkavat vastaanottaa maan poliittista väkivaltaa paenneita, Zimbabwen kirkkojen kattojärjestö päätti kuluvalla viikolla. Lähes kuukauden takaisten vaalien jälkeen hallitsevan puolueen masinoiman väkivallan kohteeksi ovat joutuneet opposition kannattajat. Kirkkojen kattojärjestön mukaan tilanne muistuttaa sotaa.

24.04.2008 The Democratic Republic of Congo and armed groups must enforce a January peace treaty meant to conclude 10 years of conflict, urged 63 local and international non-governmental organizations.
From: Human Rights Watch

24.04.2008 The Burmese military's reign of terror -- which has displaced 2 million citizens -- has particularly targeted indigenous people, forcing them to flee their homes to escape compulsory labor, rape, and starvation. [Warning, this photoessay contains graphic images that some may find disturbing.]

24.04.2008 Kenian vastanimetty valtapuolueiden yhteinen jättihallitus kiinnittää erityishuomiota lapsiin. Lasten ja naisten asioita varten on luotu uusi ministeriö, ja kiireellisenä tavoitteena pidetään lasten saamista pakolaisleireiltä takaisin normaaliin arkeen.

23.04.2008 Central African leaders and the UN have been urged to secure the release of more than 350 men, women and children thought to have been abducted by Uganda's rebel Lord’s Resistance Army in recent weeks.

23.04.2008 Joukko tunnettuja Yhdysvaltain juutalaisia on perustanut järjestön rahoittamaan ja auttamaan poliitikkoja, jotka kannattavat Israelin ja Palestiinan välisen konfliktin ratkaisuksi kahta erillistä valtiota ja vaativat Yhdysvaltoja toimimaan voimakkaasti tämän puolesta.

22.04.2008 Up to 300,000 people are estimated to have died in Darfur since early 2003, when rebels began fighting Government forces and allied militiamen, according to John Holmes, UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs.

22.04.2008 Through the stories of the Rabban and Karana families, Adam Doster relates the immense difficulties facing Iraqi refugees -- including the few who manage to receive asylum in the United States.

21.04.2008 SAN FRANCISCO, Apr 21 (OneWorld) - About 300,000 U.S. veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan suffer from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) or major depression. Another 320,000 veterans likely suffer from traumatic brain injury (TBI), a type of physical brain damage often caused by explosions from roadside bombs.

21.04.2008 Sudanissa väestönlaskenta on äärimmäisen tulenarka kysymys. Etelä-Sudanin hallitus vaatii laskentaa lykättäväksi, koska maan pohjoisosiin sisällissotaa paenneet eivät ole vielä ehtineet palata etelään.

17.04.2008 Ravaged by ethnic unrest and socio-economic deprivation, Karbi Anglong is the first district of Assam in north-east India to have implemented a quality management system for facilitating public services. Cooperative units for dairy processing and banking are a series of development initiatives aimed at freeing the district of its poverty tag.

17.04.2008 There has been a sharp rise in attacks on NGOs by Taliban rebels and criminals in Afghanistan from January to March this year, says a report. This dangerous situation is forcing international aid organisations to recruit locals to change their profile and refrain from visibility.

15.04.2008 That they would be a force to reckon with, nobody denied. But they would do well in the polls has come as a surprise. The results declared so far in Nepal’s Constituent Assembly elections indicate that ensuring a simple majority for the Maoists is now almost a certainty.

11.04.2008 Even in his criticism of the Chinese authorities in handling the current standoff in Tibet, the Dalai Lama never lost his composure. In a recent interview, the Tibetan spiritual leader has reiterated his stand that he wants a ‘meaningful autonomy’ for the protection and preservation of Tibetan ecology and culture.

08.04.2008 UNITED NATIONS, Apr 7 (IPS) - The United Nations remains virtually crippled as two proposed peacekeeping missions -- one in Darfur and the other in Somalia -- are making little or no progress.

07.04.2008 UNITED NATIONS, Apr 7 (IPS) - The United Nations remains virtually crippled as two proposed peacekeeping missions -- one in Darfur and the other in Somalia -- are making little or no progress.

04.04.2008 Somalian kriisin on paljon laajempi ja vakavampi kuin maailman siihen kiinnittämä huomio, kansainvälinen pakolaisjärjestö sanoo. Jo miljoona ihmistä on paennut kodeistaan verisemmiksi muuttuvia taisteluita.

03.04.2008 UNITED NATIONS, Apr 3 (OneWorld) - A leading humanitarian group is calling for the United Nations Security Council to take additional measures to help about 1 million Somalis who have been rendered homeless by the ongoing armed conflict in their country.