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January 12, 2007 - The TV advert showed smiling farmers walking along a new road with the Prefect of Cochabamba, Manfred Reyes Villa. “Cochabamba is going only one direction,” chirruped the advert, “towards progress.” The advert was grimly inappropriate, as it immediately followed graphic pictures of the corpses of a coca-farmer killed by a bullet and a young man by machetes in clashes between armed groups in Cochabamba.

The growing tension in Bolivia has been palpable in the last month, with rhetoric becoming more and more inflamed on both sides. I feared violence, but even so felt sick to the stomach …

By Jamal Juma (et.al): As the peace process in the middle-east is continually delayed to serve zionist interests, we are left to wonder what plan the powers that be have envisioned…

#9 The World Bank Funds Israel-Palestine Wall

Despite the 2004 International Court of Justice (ICJ) decision that called for tearing down the Wall and compensating affected communities, construction of the Wall has accelerated. The route of the barrier runs deep into Palestinian territory, aiding the annexation of Israeli settlements and the breaking of Palestinian territorial continuity. The World Bank’s vision of “economic development,” however, evades any discussion of the Wall’s illegality.

The …

Shoot on Sight: The ongoing SPDC offensive against villagers in northern Karen State December 2006

The Burmese army launched a large scale offensive in the districts of Toungoo, Nyaung Lay Bin and Muthraw in northern Karen State in November 2005 targeting the civilian Karen population. This offensive has been ongoing for over a year and it continues today. Villages are being shelled with mortars, looted and burnt to the ground. Crops and food supplies are being destroyed. Burmese soldiers are ordered to shoot on sight, regardless of whether it is a combatant or a defenseless civilian. As a result …

International Human Rights Clinic documents atrocities committed against Anuak civilians by Ethiopian military
December 18, 2006

CAMBRIDGE, MA — Soldiers in the Ethiopian military have killed, raped, and otherwise abused hundreds of Anuak civilians in the Gambella region of the country, the International Human Rights Clinic (IHRC) of Harvard Law School’s Human Rights Program said last week.

The IHRC is releasing a report tomorrow entitled “We are now hoping for death (pdf)”: Violence and Grave Human Rights Abuses in Gambella, Ethiopia. It documents potential war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by Ethiopian National Defense Forces (ENDF). It also examines retaliatory attacks …

It is a matter of rights: Improving the protection of economic, social and cultural rights in Canada. Briefing to the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights on the occasion of the review of Canada’s fourth and fifth periodic reports concerning rights referred in the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

Canada prides itself, with good reason, on its overall domestic record of protecting human rights generally, including economic, social and cultural rights, as well as its commitment to promoting stronger human rights protection abroad. Amnesty International recognizes that Canada has done much in both regards.

Over the last …

Here are two reports the United Nations have released about Canada:

Canada ranked low in UN native report
Last Updated Mon, 11 Apr 2005 19:33:32 EDT
CBC News

GENEVA - Canada’s high ranking on the United Nations’ human development scale would dramatically drop if the country were judged solely on the economic and social well-being of its First Nations people.

According to a new UN report, Canada would be placed 48th out of 174 countries if judged on those criteria.

The low position is a significant drop from Canada’s usual top 10 ranking on the UN’s human development scale. …

The following is a detailed look at history of conflict among Papuan Peoples in Indonesia, and the “Special Autonomy Legislation” that was implemented, allegedly in the best interests of Paupan Peoples.

Messages of solidarity for the people of West Papua
http://www.converge.org.nz/pma/wpsol.htm

You are invited to send a message of solidarity to the people of West Papua. This web page was launched on 1 December 2004, the forty-third anniversary of the West Papuan Declaration of Independence from Dutch colonial rule.

Since 1963 West Papua has been occupied by Indonesian armed forces. For the past forty-one years, the people of West Papua have been …