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Tuaregs claim 'independence' from Mali
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06 April 2012
The Azawad region claimed by Tuareg rebels is a broad area of northern Mali.
Tuareg rebels from northern Mali have proclaimed the "independence of Azawad" in a statement on their website and through a spokesperson on France 24 television.
"We solemnly proclaim the independence of Azawad as from today," Mossa Ag Attaher said on Friday, adding that the rebels would respect "the borders with other states".
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Suspicions Destroyed Lives of Victims' Relatives
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14 December 2011
Ufuk Ucta/ DER SPIEGEL
They said that their father was sick, that he had had an argument with customers and was now in the hospital. Semiya Simsek didn't believe the relatives. Her father was a nice man and never argued with anyone. Besides, she said, her father was also a strong man, and he was never sick.
Simsek remembers the day, when, at the age of 14, she wandered through the hallways of a Nuremberg hospital in search of her father, who was in the intensive care unit. He was unconscious after having been shot in the head by two strangers a few hours earlier. A police officer detained Simsek, telling her that she could not see her father at the moment, and that she would have to answer some questions first. "Was your father threatened?" he asked. "Did he own any weapons?" Simsek shook her head. He had a knife to cut flowers, she said, and he had never had any enemies.
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Dale Farm: residents condemn police violence
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25 October 2011
Parts of the media are already talking as if the evictions at the Dale Farm Traveller site are over – but residents and their supporters are continuing to resist this morning (20 October).
The police took much of the site yesterday, but bailiffs are only now starting to make their way in. The eviction could still take days longer to finish.
In a statement, the solidarity campaign on the Essex site urgently called for ‘help with legal observing, documenting the eviction, arrestee support or simply a supportive presence inside or outside the site’.
‘We are here a lot longer that was initially expected, and if you come down to resist and support we can do it even longer,’ they added.
The eviction has attracted global attention, with photos of the police storming into the Traveller site beamed around the world.
‘We may just be delaying the inevitable but if we don't stand up to this, nobody will. I'm prepared to stay as long as I can,’ said activist Harry.
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NATO takes control of Kosovo border crossings amid ethnic tension
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28 July 2011
PRISTINA, KOSOVO
Slovenian troops serving in the NATO-led peacekeeping mission in Kosovo set up a checkpoint on the bridge in the ethnically divided town of Mitrovica on Thursday.
American and French peacekeepers took control of two customs posts on Kosovo’s northern border with Serbia on Thursday after they were attacked by Serbs armed with firebombs, a NATO spokesman said.
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After Long Wait, Same-Sex Couples Marry in New York
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24 July 2011
Hundreds of gay and lesbian couples, from retirees in Woodstock to college students in Manhattan, rushed to tiny town halls and big city clerks’ offices across New York to wed in the first hours of legal same-sex marriage on Sunday, turning a slumbering summer day into an emotional celebration.
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Obama seeks delay in execution of Mexican
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07 July 2011
The US government said Texas authorities did not inform Garcia of his right to have access to Mexican consular officials
The Obama administration has called on Texas to delay the execution of Humberto Leal Garcia until the end of this year because he was not told at the appropriate time of his rights to diplomatic counsel.
Garcia, 38, was convicted of raping a 16-year-old girl and then killing her with a piece of asphalt in Texas in 1995.
He is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection on Thursday.
The US state department said the US government has determined that when arrested, Texas authorities did not inform Garcia of his right to have access to Mexican consular officials, as he is required to under the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations.
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Kurds in Syria
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12 March 2011
Stockholm
Robert Lowe, Middle East Centre, London School of Economics and Political Science
The popular demonstrations in Tunisia and Egypt in the last month have dramatically expressed the deep discontent felt by millions of people across the Middle East and North Africa. Unrepresentative government, corruption, human rights abuses, inequality and poverty occur in most countries in the region. Syria would feature near the top of a list of states in which these are prevalent and its Kurdish population is among the most disadvantaged and oppressed groups in the Middle East. Despite this, there is little immediate prospect of the Kurdish situation improving, rather it is continuing to deteriorate.
The problems affecting Kurds in Syria date back nearly a hundred years to the creation of the modern state of Syria under the French Mandate. This artificial construct included within its borders Kurdish people who became cut off from other Kurds living in what became Iraq and Turkey. The central difficulty for Kurds in Syria has always been that they are an ethnic minority of sufficient size to attract discrimination from the Arab majority, but of insufficient size to stand up to this discrimination (as with the Kurdish populations in Iraq, Iran and Turkey). This discrimination has been especially malignant because the ruling elite in Syria turned to Arab Ba’thist nationalism to forge a collective national identity. This identity denies legitimacy to non-Arab Kurds.
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HUNGARY URGED TO THOROUGHLY INVESTIGATE ATTACKS ON ROMA
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10 November 2010
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Australia to hold referendum recognising Aborigines
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08 November 2010
Australia will hold a referendum on recognising its indigenous people in the constitution to improve conditions for its most disadvantaged community.
Prime Minister Julia Gillard said there was a "once-in-50-year opportunity" to harness public and parliamentary support for greater recognition. The 550,000 Indigenous Australians make up 2.7% of the population.
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A Roma Teen's Fight to Stay in Germany
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06 November 2010
Elvis Berishaj was just 6 years old when he and his family fled Kosovo. The Roma teenager has lived in a German village ever since and is a shining example of integration. Yet once he turned 18, he faced deportation. His only chance of getting a residency permit was to go back to Kosovo.
The dark BMW travels slowly down a narrow dirt road. At the wheel is a tall, black-haired man, who seems to be looking around for something. He points suddenly to a burned out ruin off to one side, stones jutting up from the grass like rotten teeth. "That was my school," Fadil Berishaj says.Sitting next to him, his son Elvis, 19, says nothing.
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