The Toll on Pakistan’s Poor by Dan Pearson and Kathy Kelly October 22, 2009 Five months ago, shortly after the Pakistani government had begun a military offensive against suspected Taliban fighters in the northernmost area of the country, we arrived in Islamabad, the capital, as part of a small delegation organized by Voices for Creative Nonviolence (www.vcnv.org). Our [...]

Pakistani forces accused of hitting civilians Up to 260,000 people may flee battle against Taliban by Declan Walsh in Dera Ismail Khan October 19, 2009 The war in South Waziristan started early for Ghufran. As Pakistani warplanes pounded the Taliban stronghold of Ladha last week, in preparation for the ground offensive now under way, the 11-year-old boy and [...]

Veintisiete años después de la masacre de Sabra y Chatila por Franklin Lamb 17 de septiembre, 2009 Veintisiete años después de la Masacre de Sabra y Chatila en 1982, deambulando por los callejones en medio de los vahos que salen de la tierra, provocados por la húmeda fetidez del campo de refugiados palestinos de Chatila en Beirut, uno [...]

an english version of this news below La Policía francesa desmanteló ayer «la jungla», un campo de refugiados donde vivían cientos de personas, en su mayoría afganas, en su intento por llegar a Gran Bretaña, y que se ha convertido en uno de los símbolos del drama de la inmigración en Europa. Organizaciones de derechos humanos [...]

Tribal leader: 87 killed in Yemen airstrike on camp for those fleeing government-rebel war by Ahmad Al-Haj and Donna Abu-Nasr September 17, 2009 Nearly 87 civilians were killed in a strike by government warplanes that hit a camp of people fleeing fighting in northern Yemen, a tribal leader said Thursday. It was a sign of increasing bloodiness in [...]

by Randeep Ramesh in Trincomalee September 13, 2009 Living by a palm-fringed golden beach on the edge of the Indian Ocean, Suganthinhi Thesamanikam considers herself lucky to be alive after living through the hell of war. Caught between the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and the Sri Lankan army, she dodged bullets and shells for two years [...]

versión en español abajo by Norman Solomon September 1, 2009 Yesterday, I met a little girl named Guljumma. She’s seven years old, and she lives in Kabul at a place called Helmand Refugee Camp District 5. Guljumma talked about what happened one morning last year when she was sleeping at home in southern Afghanistan’s Helmand Valley. At about 5 [...]

Nota del editor: Sin sustento, no hay libertad, no hay vida, no hay forma de resistir las injusticias diarias que vienen a oprimirlo a uno cada vez más. No hay libertad. El hambre es una de las injusticias más grandes de nuestros tiempos porque el alimento es un derecho humano que se le esta negando [...]

The Way to Power by Dr.Bouthaina Shaaban July 29, 2009 After the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) published its report on the Arab world, with one of its shocking conclusions being that half of the world’s refugees are Arabs, The Economist published in its latest edition July 24-30  a 14-page report about the Arab world with an editorial [...]

by Mahir Ali July 21, 2009 EVEN a tentative sigh of relief would probably be premature, but the trickle of refugees back to their towns and villages in Swat is a hopeful sign. The exodus was rapid; the return, inevitably, is much slower. And it ought not to be misconstrued as a vote of confidence in official [...]