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Nepal: Stop Illegally Detaining Tibetans
— Human Rights Watch
April 18, 2008
Respect Tibetans' Right to Peaceful Expression, Assembly
As protests over China's abuses of Tibetans intensify in Nepal's capital, Kathmandu, police continue to arbitrarily arrest, detain, and mistreat record numbers of Tibetans in violation of their rights to freedom of expression and assembly. "Nepal has just held relatively peaceful, democratic elections," said Sophie Richardson, Asia advocacy director at Human Rights Watch. "But the government cannot be selective about who in Nepal is entitled to such basic rights - Tibetans there are entitled to peaceful expression and assembly too."
— Nepalese policemen arrest protesting Tibetan - PRAKASH MATHEMA/AFP/Getty Images
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LRA Prepares for War, not Peace
Katy Glassborow and Peter Eichstaedt in The Hague, with Emma Mutaizibwa in Kampala, Institute for War and Peace Reporting
April 24, 2008 The feared Ugandan rebel group, the Lord's Resistance Army, LRA, is building up its military capacity at a time when it is supposed to be preparing to disarm under a peace agreement, Institute for War and Peace Reporting stated. |
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DR Congo: End the Horrific Suffering in Eastern Congo
Human Rights Watch
April 23, 2008
The government of the Democratic Republic of Congo, the armed groups, and international parties to the Goma peace agreement should urgently implement the accord and end the horrific suffering of hundreds of thousands of men, women, and children facing brutal violence and deadly diseases in eastern Congo, 63 international and Congolese human rights and aid groups said in a joint statement.
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China: Recall Arms Shipment Headed for Zimbabwe
Human Rights Watch
April 22, 2008 The Chinese government should immediately recall the shipment of weapons aboard the An Yue Jiang intended for Zimbabwe and currently off the coast of southern Africa, Human Rights Watch said. |
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Zimbabwe: ZANU-PF Sets Up 'Torture Camps'
Robert Mugabe
April 18, 2008 - Zimbabwe?s ZANU-PF party is using a network of informal detention centers to beat, torture, and intimidate opposition activists and ordinary Zimbabweans, Human Rights Watch said. |
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| April 23, 2008 |
| Japan: Where has all the butter gone? |
| Where is the butter? -- cry Japanese consumers who have been hunting everywhere for the dairy product. The drastic reduction in raw milk production, complicated by hikes in the price of grain as well as changes in the global patterns of dairy product consumption, have caused a serious butter shortage... |
| By: Hanako Tokita |
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| April 22, 2008 |
| Green Global Voices on Earth Day 2008 |
| Bloggers celebrated Earth Day on April 22 by posting their thoughts on what the day means, others did a roundup of articles, some shared reading lists and others mused about climate change. In this brief roundup we get a glimpse of these blogger's views on Earth Day 2008... |
| By: Juliana Rotich |
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| April 21, 2008 |
| South Africa: The Praise and Fall of Thabo Mbeki |
| South African President, Thabo Mbeki, is keeping bloggers increasingly active with his recent position on the situation in Zimbabwe, and bloggers are taking him to task. |
| By: Muhammad Karim |
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