Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Correspondents* DOHA, Qatar, Jul 11, 2011 (IPS/Al Jazeera) – Tens of thousands of Bosnia Muslims gathered on Monday to bury the remains of 613 people at Srebrenica to commemorate the 16th anniversary of the 1995 killings of thousands of Muslims in and around the town. The massacre [...]
UGANDA: Kato Murder Re-ignites Gay Rights Debate
February 12, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Joe Opio * KAMPALA, Feb 12, 2011 (IPS/INSP) – For the government of Uganda, the timing of David Kato’s death couldn’t have been more unfortunate. Kato was killed on Jan. 26, a national holiday to commemorate the ascent to power of the ruling National Resistance Movement party. [...]
Mexican NGOs, Hard Up and Under Threat
August 16, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS Emilio Godoy MEXICO CITY, Aug 13 (IPS) – Public safety is the top concern of Mexico’s civil society organisations, but shortage of money is hampering their work, according to a study released this week in the capital. ”Modern societies need a strong, well-organised and participative civil society,” Jorge [...]
Honduras Bashed for Rights Violations
August 10, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IDN By S. J. Chander IDN-InDepth NewsAnalyis TORONTO (IDN) – Human Rights Watch has called on the Honduran government to provide protection to journalists and members of the political opposition, prosecute people responsible for human rights abuses, and restore the independence of the judiciary. "Violent attacks on journalists and [...]
RIGHTS-COLOMBIA: A Cemetery Full of Questions
August 6, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS Constanza Vieira LA MACARENA, Colombia, Aug 6 (IPS) – The most determined attempt by the far-right paramilitaries to establish a presence in this town in central Colombia ended in failure. They showed up in 2003, protected by the police. But local residents armed with sticks and shotguns caught [...]
COLOMBIA: ‘Let’s Talk About the Disappeared’
July 17, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Constanza Vieira BOGOTÁ, Jul 16, 2010 (IPS) – Every day, Luz Marina Hache sees her disappeared husband, Eduardo Lorne, in their 25-year-old son. He sleeps the same way, is equally studious, and like his father, he is infuriated by injustice. He has the same beautiful face that [...]
UNESCO Condemns Yet Another Killing of Indian Journalist
July 15, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IDN By Jaya Ramachandran IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis PARIS (IDN) – For the third time in less than two years, the United Nations agency tasked with defending press freedom has expressed concern over the death of an Indian journalist. Hem Chandra Pandey is the third Indian journalist to be killed since [...]
MASSACRE OF AHMEDIS IN LAHORE
May 30, 2010 By
INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM MONITOR—PAPER NO 654 Global Geopolitics & Political Economy B.RAMAN Eighty persons were killed and over 120 others injured in two acts of terrorism directed against Ahmadi worshippers in two mosques belonging to their community in Lahore on May 28,2010. Among those killed were former sessions judge Ameer Ahmad Sheikh, the Amir of the [...]
COLOMBIA: Army Killings Rear Head in Presidential Campaign
May 27, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS Constanza Vieira BOGOTA, May 27 (IPS) – Colombian presidential candidate Antanas Mockus said he ”shares the horror” over the so-called ”false positives” — young civilians killed by the army and passed off as guerrilla casualties in the military’s counterinsurgency campaign. The phenomenon is ”an extreme manifestation of the [...]
Pressure Mounts on Honduras as Journalist Death Toll Rises
May 1, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Thelma Mejía TEGUCIGALPA, Apr 30 (IPS) – Honduran President Porfirio Lobo plans to seek help from police forces in Colombia and the United States to try to solve the murders of seven journalists committed in the space of less than two months, which will also be investigated by a [...]
