Following repeated suicide bombing attacks, including a bombing in the coastal city of Netanya which killed 22 Israelis and injured over 100, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon ordered the most penetrating military incursion into areas under the control of the PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY (PA) since the outbreak of the second infitada. ...
President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah was officially nominated to run in Mays election, becoming the first of seven candidates to be registered for the closely watched ...
Secretary General Kofi Annan urged the Security Council to implement resolutions calling for a meaningful ceasefire between Israel and the Palestinians and an ...
A UN sponsored commission announced that a loya jirga, or grand council, would meet June 10-16 to decide the next phase of the countrys political future. ...
The recent deterioration of peace negotiations, escalation of violence in
the Middle East and challenges associated with the global war against
terrorism has...
The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Independence of Judges and Lawyers, Dato Param Cumaraswamy, will visit Italy from March 12 to14.
The Special Ra...
As we mark the start of the 2002 Olympic games in Salt Lake City, the shadow of September 11 and recent biosecurity attacks against the United States contribu...
A ban on the use of children as soldiers, a human rights violation suffered by nearly a half million minors worldwide, has been approved by nearly a hundred co...
San Francisco - As the world celebrated the Valentine’s Day, the international human rights organisation, Global Exchange, launched a grassroots Fair Tr...
After renewed violence in the West Bank left six Israeli soldiers dead, Israel responded with a large scale retaliatory raid on Palestinian areas which killed ...
Interim Afghan leader Hamid Karzai reassured his country and the international community that his administration remained "fully united" despite last weeks ass...
In Syria prospects of ending the crisis look bleak, with the UN Security Council struggling to agree on an appropriate response. The Assad regime?s brutal crackdown, including shelling of central city Homs, shows no sign...
In Iraq, the official withdrawal of the last U.S. combat troops, nearly nine years after the invasion, was quickly followed by a political crisis. Authorities issued an arrest warrant for the country?s top Sunni politician,...
The Democratic Republic of Congo?s presidential and parliamentary vote went ahead on 28-30 November, after a campaign marred by violence and amid allegations of rigging and mismanagement. Political rallies were banned in the wake of...
Deadly clashes between government forces and the insurgent Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) broke out in the troubled southern Philippines in October.
In Sudan a Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) offensive in Blue Nile state, and renewed clashes in Southern Kordofan between the SAF and the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, fuelled fears of a return to civil war.