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I. INTRODUCTION
1. Hundreds of thousands of migrant workers and refugees flee Libya
The conflict that began in Libya on 17 February 2011 with a popular revolt against the regime of Colonel Gaddafi, following the Tunisian and Egyptian revolutions in January, triggered a mass exodus of the (…)

Pas une semaine sans que la liste des victimes ne s’allonge - lugubre litanie qui, depuis trois mois déjà, rythme les événements de Syrie. Le régime de Bachar Al-Assad se maintient par la terreur et la destruction. Il fait la guerre à son peuple - à l’arme lourde, parfois. Le nombre des tués (…)

Há 141 anos terminou a Guerra do Paraguai. Durou de 1864 a 1870. Ao longo de seis anos, Brasil, Argentina e Uruguai, instigados pela Inglaterra, combateram os paraguaios. O pretexto era derrubar o ditador Solano López e impedir que o Paraguai, país independente e sem miséria, abrisse uma saída (…)

Au cours de l’assaut de la flottille humanitaire à destination de la bande de Gaza le 31 mai dernier, les soldats israéliens ont procédé à la fouille des passagers, journalistes compris. Ils ont confisqué l’ensemble du matériel technique des professionnels des médias présents à bord, ainsi que (…)

El presidente electo de Perú, Ollanta Humala, impulsará la investigación para que la justicia penalice a los responsables del plan de esterilización compulsiva de mujeres del gobierno de Alberto Fujimori (1990-2000), aseguró la portavoz de la agrupación política triunfante, Aída García Naranjo. (…)

In Greater Noida, farmers resist fiercely attempts to take over their land for the Yamuna expressway and a hi-tech city.
IT is a tale of two worlds, one in the present and the other in the future; one living and breathing and toiling away in parts of the National Capital Region and the other (…)

The Human Rights Information & Training Cente (HRITC, national focal point of Social Watch) warned in a communiqué also signed by the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the Sisters’ Arab Forum for Human Rights (SAF) about the risk of civil war in Yemen. This organisations (…)

GENEVA (26 May 2011) – At the conclusion of his official follow-up visit to Tunisia from 22 to 26 May the United Nations Special Rapporteur on human rights and counter-terrorism, Martin Scheinin, gave the following statement:
“I would like to extend my gratitude to the Transitional Government (…)

INTRODUCTION
La récente actualité dans le monde arabe nous l’a rappelé, le peuple détient un pouvoir qu’on ne soupçonne pas toujours, et se montre dans certains cas capable de mettre fin à des occupations étrangères ou des régimes dictatoriaux. De tels exemples, le siècle précédent en a connu (…)

Earthquake, flood, conflict, and the Taliban have led the assault on education in Swat, a region of Pakistan with high literacy rates. A local NGO, Sarhad Rural Support Programme (SRSP), hopes that can recover, fast. Read more

It had to happen. Osama bin Laden had been the target of the longest, most intense manhunt in history. Never before had the most powerful nation in the world concentrated so much of its time, energy and resources to hunt down one man. And never before had the hunters been able to deploy the (…)

Un centenar de representantes de organizaciones sociales de todo el país, entre ellas campesinas, de mujeres, sindicales, estudiantiles, de derechos humanos y profesionales, concluyeron esta tarde tres días de debate intenso en torno al Haití que quieren, los obstáculos que enfrentan y el (…)

Les bombardements occidentaux des forces de Kadhafi en Libye sont devenus pour l’US Africa Command un stratagème opportuniste de relations publiques et une nouvelle tête de pont, en faveur d’ un bastion militaire sur le continent, écrit Horace Campbell. Il lève le voile sur stratégies militaires (…)

After many months of work, the United Nations Secretary-General’s Panel of Experts on Sri Lanka submitted its report to the Sri Lankan government. Though the report has only been sent to Colombo for review, and the formal release is still awaited as Himal goes to press, extracts have already (…)

La discusión del proyecto de Ley de Víctimas y Restitución de Tierras avanza en el parlamento de Colombia con amplio registro mediático y entusiastas declaraciones gubernamentales, pero sin que sean atendidos los reclamos de las propias víctimas, los campesinos despojados.
Ante la indiferencia (…)

North Korea’s lesson from Libya is that if you give up your WMD programs peacefully, you may have lost your best defense from invasion.
Coming to terms with NATO’s intervention in the Libyan civil war is a little like wresting a grizzly bear: big, hairy, and likely to make one pretty (…)

As crónicas que compõem este livro foram publicadas no jornal “Público” de 1992 a 1995 e tinham por título genérico “Da Terra dos Mitos”. Poderia ser até um bom título para manter. Mas as crónicas tinham sido escritas na altura em que, depois do processo de pacificação e eleições do ano de 1992, (…)

O Secretário-Geral da Organização das Nações Unidas (ONU), Ban Ki-moon, chamou atenção para o déficit no financiamento de programas para a remoção de restos de minas e explosivos terrestres para este ano. O alerta foi dado hoje (4), no marco das celebrações do Dia Internacional de Informação (…)

José Maria Filho era a maior liderança social da região da Chapada do Apodi, no interior do Ceará. Ele estava presente nas manifestações sociais denunciando as violações dos direitos humanos e, principalmente, a contaminação da água pelo uso indiscriminado de agrotóxicos na região. Por causa (…)

The dramatic upheavals in Tunisia, Egypt, Bahrain, Algeria, Libya and Yemen show what huge numbers of ordinary citizens can do when they rally bravely for democracy and human rights. In Egypt, we have witnessed the downfall of a seemingly invincible dictator, but as of yet the regime he erected (…)