news:
- ACHR team to visit conflict ridden areas of Mizoram [Assam Times]
- Children recruited by both sides in Yemen conflict [Media Line]
- Military Will Never Solve The Papua’ Conflict [Free Papua Movement/ Scoop.nz]
Field Report: Kokang conflict ‘did not concern’ border guard tension
An offensive by Burmese troops against Kokang rebels in August did not result from its resistance to border guard transformation but from drugs and weapons production, state media said today.
Much of the news surrounding the incident, which forced some 37,000 refugees into China, had focused on the Kokang group’s reluctance to transform into a border guard militia, and thus closely ally itself with the ruling junta, prior to the 2010 elections.
The Scale of ‘rido’ in Mindanao
WHAT is rido? “Rido refers to a state of recurring hostilities between families and kinship groups characterized by a series of retaliatory acts of violence carried out to avenge a perceived affront or injustice.” This is from the 2007 book “Rido: Clan Feuding and Conflict Management in Mindanao,” edited by William Magno Torres III, published by The Asia Foundation.
Evidence from surveys of representative samples. This week’s horrific massacre of 57 persons in Maguindanao makes it quite clear that the SWS report, “Violence in ARMM mostly due to family or clan-conflict,” based on statistical surveys completed in early December 2004 in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao and separately in the Philippines as a whole, remains valid five years later.
text quoted from Mahar Mangahas, Philippine Daily Inquirer
news
- Nagaland Political Conflict [DNA]
- Cyprus: The Conflict Continues [Haaretz.com]
- Bawku, Ghana: Conflict looms [Peace FM Online]
- Ex- Minister- resolution needed in Cameroon-Nigeria Oil-fueled Bakassi conflict [lexpressplus.com]
news:
- Congo massacre witnesses were threatened [AP]
- UN chief urges new election date for Cote d’Ivoire [China News]
- Education not Execution: Uganda’s Defilement problem [Independent]
- Did Mbeki really support, for a while at least, the Equatorial Guinea coup attempt? [The Daily Maverick]
- Israel announces plans to limit West Bank construction for 10 months [LA Times]
- Burma engagement offers false hopes [Sydney Morning Herald]
- Indonesian government may allow mining in protected forests [The Jakarta Post]
- Haiti: UN troops shoot again [World War 4 Report]
- Blood Oil [VF]
news:
- Climate Change, Hunger, Drought: Conflict? North Kenya Pastoralists on edge [Guardian]
- Yemen crisis: Largest destination for illegal weopons in Middle East [Yemen Post]
- Ongoing Strife in Philippines: Muslim Separatists update [New York Times]
- ICC/DRC: Second Trial of Congolese Warlords [Human Rights Watch]
- No living witnesses left for John Demjanjuk- last Nazi trial [Haaretz.com]
- Trade in Conflict Diamonds Escalates [Liberian Observer]
- Possible EU Satellite monitoring of Georgian situation [EurasiaNet]
- Armenian-Azeri leaders hold talks [Al Jazeera]
- A Tiger for a neighbour: Persecuted Tibetans flock to India [Times of India]
- Khmer Rouge trial comes to an end [New York Times]
news:
- Crisis in Yemen deepens: hunger and displacement increases. [Washington Post]
- Sri Lanka ethnic minorities hold talks following end of fighting [BBC Online]
- Sri Lankan Government to relax rules on Tamil camps [ABC Online]
- Colombia: We will not be provoked into war by Venezuela [Reuters]
- Madagascar leaders move towards power sharing [Reuters]
SPECIAL REPORT: The State of the World’s Children
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Today, UNICEF published ‘The State of the World’s Children’, a special report marking 20 years of the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
The Convention on the Rights of the Child stands as a universal standard for building a better world – a world in which the best interests of children are a primary concern of all. The challenge for the next 20 years is to build on the progress already achieved, working together to reach those children who are still being denied their rights to survival, development, protection and participation.
From the Report:
The Convention on the Rights of the Child was long fought for and hard won. It is a precious document that charts our course to a world in which children’s rights are fulfilled and in which all aspects of human well-being immeasurably improve as a result. As the end of the first decade of the 21st century draws to a close, we must seize the opportunity to put the Convention’s principles and provisions into practice. The great challenge for the next 20 years will be to unite governmental accountability with social and individual responsibility. To make the vision of the Convention a reality for every child, it must become a guiding document for every human being.
(c) UNICEF, 2009
Rory Peck Awards
Yesterday night the winners of the Rory Peck Awards 2009 were annouced. The awards celebrate the work of freelance cameramen and camerawomen in TV news and current affairs.
