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 [...]
RIGHTS: Landmark U.N. Resolution on Equality Stuck on Paper
October 30, 2008 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Thursday, October 30, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Nergui Manalsuren UNITED NATIONS, Oct 29 (IPS) – Civil society groups are urging the U.N. to fully implement a U.N. Security Council resolution calling for greater women’s participation in conflict prevention, resolution and peace-building. On Wednesday, [...]
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 [...]
POLITICS-ETHIOPIA: A Career In Dissent
October 29, 2008 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Wednesday, October 29, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Michael Chebsi ADDIS ABABA, Oct 29 (IPS) – Frozen in disbelief on the steps of the courthouse where she presided as a federal judge, Bertukan Mideksa watched as a man she had just ordered released on [...]
EGYPT: Ruling Party in Free Fall
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Wednesday, October 29, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Adam Morrow and Khaled Moussa al-Omrani CAIRO, Oct 29 (IPS) – A high-ranking member of Egypt’s ruling National Democratic Party (NDP) is facing trial on charges of arranging the murder of a Lebanese pop singer. The [...]