- Relatives of inmates on a hunger strike in Kyrgyzstanpicketed a pretrial detention centre on Wednesday to demand their relatives’ demands be met. The protesters are calling upon reviews for the inmates’ cases, who they claim have been sentenced for crimes they didn’t commit. On Tuesday, the Kyrgyz Parliament…
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Added by Rebecca Sargent on December 21, 2011 at 9:16pm —
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Hello, hope all is well!
This week’s conflict reports will be a little thinner than usual, as I have been feeling a bit under the weather the last couple days and haven’t been reading as extensively as normal. Please be sure to add anything I have missed in the comments below or send via email to apeaceofconflict@gmail.com.
Thanks!
Rebecca
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Added by Rebecca Sargent on December 20, 2011 at 6:58pm —
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- Fatima Bensouda was formally elected as chief prosecutor for the International Criminal Court on Monday. Bensouda was the only candidate running for the election and will take over from Luis Moreno-Ocampo in June.
- The UNDP has released its 2011 Human Development Report. This report projects a…
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Added by Rebecca Sargent on December 19, 2011 at 11:38pm —
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Hello all! Hope all is well!
I would like to appeal to readers to direct me to any English news sites from Latin America to help make this section better. If you know of any good news sites, blogs or organizations that profile human rights, conflict or peace issues from South or Central America, please write to me at apeaceofconflict@gmail.com or leave me the details in the comments below.
Thanks in advance,
Rebecca
- Occupy Wall Street protesters in…
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Added by Rebecca Sargent on December 15, 2011 at 8:51pm —
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- A US citizen was jailed by authorities in Thailand for translating excerpts of a locally banned biography of the King and posting them online. On Friday, the former PM was being questioned by police in connection with a deadly military crackdown on the “Red Shirt” mass opposition protests that…
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Added by Rebecca Sargent on December 14, 2011 at 7:06pm —
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- Transparency International’s new report concluded that police forces in eastern Africa are perceived as the most corrupt body among the six institutions surveyed; the police, judiciary, customs, registry and permit services, land services, medical services, tax revenue, utilities and education systems. According to the report, 54% of people surveyed reported to have paid a bribe in the past year.
- The…
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Added by Rebecca Sargent on December 13, 2011 at 6:38pm —
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- The top military commander in the US announced that he believes the eurozone is at great risk and warned that any breakup of the bloc could have serious consequences for the Pentagon. He warned of the potential for civil unrest after 26 of the 27 EU countries agreed to forge a tighter fiscal union.
- On Sunday, opposition leader Sergei Udaltsov…
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- On Friday, heads of state from across Latin America and the Caribbean flew into Venezuela for the inaugural meeting of the Community of Latin America and Caribbean States or CELAC. The group is designed to counter US influence and improve regional ties.
- On Friday, the ruling party in Guyana…
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Added by Rebecca Sargent on December 8, 2011 at 5:47pm —
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- A massive strike saw the closure of shops all around India on Thursday, in protest of a new policy to allow big-box retailers into the country. On Sunday, a landmine attack reportedly by Maoist rebels in eastern…
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Added by Rebecca Sargent on December 7, 2011 at 8:12pm —
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- Former President of Cote d’Ivoire Laurent Gbabgo was taken into custody by the International Criminal Court on Wednesday amid fears that “victor’s justice” could stoke further tensions in the fragile “reconciliation” process. The ICC is…
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- On Wednesday, President Saleh of Yemen signed an agreement to end his 33 year rule in exchange for immunity from prosecution from Saudi Arabia, officially handing over power to his Vice President al-Hadi; a move the UN Security Council welcomed. On Thursday, thousands took to the streets in the…
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Added by Rebecca Sargent on December 2, 2011 at 8:18pm —
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- The UN regional economic body, ECLAC, announced on Wednesday that poverty in Latin America is at its lowest level in 20 years. Among the countries that saw the largest drops in poverty are Peru, Ecuador, Argentina, Uruguay and Columbia, with poverty increasing only in Honduras and Mexico.
- On Wednesday,…
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Added by Rebecca Sargent on December 1, 2011 at 5:21pm —
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- Security officials in India reportedly killed senior Maoist commander, Molajula Koteswar Rao on Thursday, the latest in a series of senior leaders of the movement to be killed. More than 100,000 security personnel have been deployed to the remote areas of centre and eastern India to fight…
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Added by Rebecca Sargent on December 1, 2011 at 1:50pm —
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- EU leaders agreed on Friday to tighten migration safeguards, in a controversial response to an influx of migrants fleeing North Africa's upheaval. The refugee crisis sparked a debate over the extent that EU governments should share the responsibility for immigrants arriving elsewhere in the bloc.
- Poland…
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Added by Rebecca Sargent on July 3, 2011 at 12:09pm —
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- A court in Oman sentenced 55 people to prison on Tuesday for taking part in protests demanding jobs. The accused were found guilty of offences including robbery, unlawful gathering, and vanalising government departments. The protests happened between March and May.
- Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in Lebanon…
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Added by Rebecca Sargent on July 1, 2011 at 5:50pm —
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Special thanks to Michael Southcott for his submissions.
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Added by Rebecca Sargent on June 30, 2011 at 11:31am —
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Special thanks to Michael Southcott for his submissions this week!
- On Friday, suspected insurgents killed two civilians and wounded another four in a triple bombing attack in Thailand, near the Malaysian border. Thailand faces an election July 3rd, in a vote that the opposition…
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Added by Rebecca Sargent on June 29, 2011 at 3:53pm —
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- More than 500 international NGOs delivered a petition to the G20’s agricultural ministers during a two-day meeting in Paris calling for a halt to land grabbing in Africa under the guise of “responsible agricultural investment”. Land occupied by peasants, pastoralists, herders, etc. are being converted…
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Added by Rebecca Sargent on June 28, 2011 at 6:38pm —
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