January, 2006

• A Statement from Jews Against Genocide

  

  January 28, 2006  1,304 views 0 Comments Share

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  Press Release: International Solidarity Movement- On January 19th we, a group of concerned Jews, spray painted the infamous Nazi slogan "Arbeit Macht Frie" ("Work Makes You Free") on a sign placed by the Israeli occupation authorities at the Kalandia checkpoint that read "The Hope of Us All". The Sign "the hope of us all" and [...]

  Filed Under genocide • Israel • Palestine

• Betchel vs. Bolivia: The People Win

  

  January 20, 2006  3,594 views 1 comment Share

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  Article By Democracy Center, COA - The Cochabamba water revolt - which began exactly six years ago this month - will end this morning when Bechtel, one of the world's most powerful corporations, formally abandons its legal effort to take $50 million from the Bolivian people. Bechtel made that demand before a secretive trade court [...]

  Filed Under accountability • Bolivia • business • Indigenous Peoples • movements • Successes

• Human rights in decline in Asia

  

  January 18, 2006  1,317 views 0 Comments Share

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  Human rights in decline in Asia By Kathleen Hwang www.upi.com HONG KONG, Jan. 18 -- Respect for human rights is deteriorating in many Asian countries; security forces are abusing suspects with impunity, and people are living in greater fear of those in authority, the Asian Human Rights Commission said in a report released Tuesday in [...]

  Filed Under Bangladesh • Cambodia • Indonesia • Korea • Nepal • Philippines • Thailand

• Nigerians get militant against Shell oil company

  

  January 17, 2006  1,482 views 0 Comments Share

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  The oil giant Royal Dutch Shell was considering pulling out of the volatile Niger Delta region yesterday after heavily armed militants stormed one of its facilities and killed at least 17 people. Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta statement: "It must be clear that the Nigerian government cannot protect your workers or assets. [...]

  Filed Under Africa • Indigenous Peoples • movements

• Genocide sentences ‘humiliate survivors’

  

  January 10, 2006  1,183 views 0 Comments Share

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  By Aimable Twahirwa - Kigali, Rwanda. During the 12 years since the Rwandan genocide, national and community courts -- and an international tribunal -- have tried to bring about justice for victims of the killings and rights abuses that took place in 1994. Among the sentences that have been handed down, however, those that relate [...]

  Filed Under Africa • genocide

• Free trade agreements – Hypocrisy and Illusion

  

  January 7, 2006  1,686 views 1 comment Share

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  By Siv O'Neall Manipulated again! The emptiness behind the slogan free trade has been pointed out again and again by numerous NGOs, by Progressive Internet sites and by individual objectors to the obscene power of the transnational corporations. It needs however to be stressed constantly until the corporate empire falls and IN BOLDFACE CAPITALS, that [...]

  Filed Under CAFTA • free trade • FTAA • NAFTA • neoliberalism • resource page • WTO

• Africa: Democracy is about people power

  

  January 4, 2006  894 views 0 Comments Share

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  This is a heavily edited version of a lecture by Jerry Rawlings, former president of Ghana, delivered at Witswatersrand University, South Africa last September on democratic reform in Africa. Africa's political history since independence has largely been characterised by a scarcity of verifiable documentation and a dearth of information on the activities of the key [...]

  Filed Under Africa • decolonization • Indigenous Peoples