Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Thursday, October 30, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Constanza Vieira BOGOTA, Oct 30 (IPS) – The dismissal of 20 officers and seven noncommissioned officers for extrajudicial executions of civilians presented as battlefield casualties ”is a triumph for human rights organisations and for Colombian society [...]
INDIA: End 50-Year Crackdown in Manipur, Rights Groups Urge
October 29, 2008 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Wednesday, October 29, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Ida Karlsson UNITED NATIONS, Oct 29 (IPS) – In the world’s largest democracy, people are shot to death on mere suspicion. For half a century, the population of Manipur State in northeast India has suffered from [...]
SRI LANKA: Tamil Rebels Defy Siege With Aerial Bombings
October 29, 2008 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Wednesday, October 29, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. IPS Correspondents COLOMBO, Oct 29 (IPS) – Aerial bombings carried out on the capital and a northern military base, late Tuesday night, have signalled that the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) remains a fighting force [...]
POLITICS: Thai Tensions Form Apt Backdrop for ASEAN Meet
October 28, 2008 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Tuesday, October 28, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Analysis by Marwaan Macan-Markar BANGKOK, Oct 28 (IPS) – The decision by Thai government to shift the venue of a regional summit from Bangkok to the northern city of Chiang Mai points to an administration unsure [...]
RIGHTS: Fighting the ‘War on Terror’
September 8, 2008 By
Global Geopolitics – Global News Blog – Global Politics Online – IPS Monday, September 08, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Julio Godoy PARIS, Sep 8 (IPS) – The ”war on terror” in the aftermath of the attacks of Sep. 11, 2001 has undermined human rights globally, according to activists and [...]
