Zimbabwe crisis worsens amid impasse, Amnesty says

By Paul Simao

JOHANNESBURG, Oct 31 (Reuters) – Human rights abuses are going unpunished and the food crisis is worsening in Zimbabwe while President Robert Mugabe and the opposition bicker over forming a unity government, Amnesty International said on Friday.
Mugabe and the leaders of the opposition MDC agreed last month to share power, but talks have [...]

26 people killed, dozens hurt as moderate intensity earthquake rattles Balochistan

Angelina Jolie ends Afghan visit with call for more returnee support

KABUL, Afghanistan, October 24 (UNHCR) – The UN refugee agency’s Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie has concluded her first visit to Afghanistan, where she saw both the successes and the difficulties of return and reintegration. She saw first hand the country’s difficult humanitarian circumstances and called for more international support to meet critical needs during the [...]

Colombia: Floods DREF operation no. MDRCO004

Kashmir Black Day 2008 – ABIM’s statement

 

Kashmir Black Day, the annual commemoration of the landing of Indian security forces in Srinagar on Oct. 27, 1947, is being observed to highlight the plight of Kashmiris caused by India’s deployment of 700,000 troops in the valley. Thousands of its inhabitants had been martyred. The Jammu and Kashmir dispute is one of the oldest [...]

Peace Volunteers who gave their lifes

 

 
Today, suddenly my mind stuck at this name, Corrie Rachel.  I’ve never met her.  But my mentor, Khairil Anuar Khalid ex Malaysian Relief Sarajevo (Mr. Bon Bon) had met her when he was in Palestine a month before she was killed.
 
I start searching her name in search engine and together with her name I found [...]

Sudan: New Darfur Attacks Show Civilians Still at Risk

Fighting Underscores Lack of Protection for Civilians
(New York, October 24, 2008) – Sudanese forces and government-backed militias attacked more than a dozen villages in operations against rebel forces near Muhajariya, South Darfur, between October 5 and 17, 2008, Human Rights Watch said today. The fighting, in which more than 40 civilians were killed, shows that [...]

CRUEL – “Uzbekistan: Activist Sentenced to 10 Years”

EU Wrong to Cite ‘Progress’ in Human Rights
(Moscow, October 23, 2008) – Uzbek authorities should immediately and unconditionally release Akzam Turgunov, a human rights defender and opposition activist who was sentenced on October 23 to 10 years in prison on politically motivated charges, Human Rights Watch said.
A court in Manget, Karakalpakstan (a distant region of [...]

MEMINDAHKAN KONSEP RKH & RSK KE KAWASAN BANDAR (LEMBAH KELANG)

Hasil dari maklum balas netters terhadap Konsep Pendidikan yang diketengahkan oleh Rumah Kasih Harmoni (RKH)dan Rumah Siraman Kasih (RSK) pihak kami bercadang untuk memindahkan konsep ini ke kawasan bandar, dan kawasan yang dipilih ialah kawasan Lembah Kelang. Maklumat untuk usaha ini telah dan sedang pihak kami kumpulkan agar usaha amal ini dapat berjalan dengan lancar.
Rasional [...]

Report: Ugandan rebels sold abducted children to fight in Darfur

Kampala_(dpa) _ Most of the estimated 30,000 children abducted by Ugandan rebels of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) during its two-decade-long war with the government were sold to fight in Sudan’s restive Darfur province, Uganda’s Daily Monitor reported Wednesday.
The children were first forced by the LRA to fight and commit atrocities. Afterward, they were sold [...]