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Who calls the killer to account?
By Carolyn Bennett
War, rights abuse, lawlessness and impunity — the U.S. reign of terror
has long-term and far-reaching consequences.
A country actively, lawlessly at war with
the world can no longer claim either intervention to save civilians (humanitarianism) or war as
last resort. Such statements are lies on their face.
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Flag raising at the seat of the Court in
The Hague © ICC-CPI
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Officials (executives and
judges, lawmakers and war makers) of such a country send a clear message to
the young, who presumably will lead future relations with self, country and the world. The way to get what you want or to have your way is to kill. If you feel you cannot pull it off legitimately, then orchestrate or create conditions on the ground, then squeeze a sort of “yes” from the UN and go in with drones blazing and take down the oligarch, the dictator, the authoritarian (former friend) and everything in his path. Then kick back to corporations. Hire and collude with them to forever suppress a people, all the while pretending to reconstruct what you have destroyed utterly, and continue destabilizing and destroying.
Welcome to the United States’
entrenched foreign policy of violence. If you think Libya’s head of state (or
Bahrain’s or Saudi Arabia’s or Yemen’s or Egypt’s) was corrupt and oppressive and had ruled far too long, then you better take a look at entrenched U.S. policy, extending, in contemporary times, no farther back than from the Nixon era and you have another 40-year reign
of terror.
Richard Nixon, the 37th U.S.
president (1969-1974), didn’t start the war in Southeast Asia but he advanced
it. Barack Obama, the 44th U.S. president, didn’t start the wars of Southwest Asia
and East Africa but he increased the wars, widened and deepened them, increased
cold-blooded preemptive extrajudicial killings and the massive displacement of peoples; and through Washington’s propaganda machine, its inordinate influence over
non-super-powered countries, his administration (as its predecessors) has lied about what the United States is doing and why the United
States is involved in and actively leading global aggression.
If you believe Qaddafi or any
Asian or African head of sect or faction or state is any worse than the long
reign of U.S. official violence perpetrated against peoples of the world — and
its flagrant impunity (getting away with murder!) — then you have either been living
in a cave for a very long time or your brain has been washed by overexposure to
U.S. mass propaganda.
Murderer be not proud — If you
have refused to see what the United States through its officials have done at
least in the past forty years, then you too are complicit in murder and its
accompanying destruction of families and children, societies and institutions
and potential.
I am angry and saddened by what
the country that I love is doing at home and abroad and I want you to be angry
and nonviolently active as well.
“If ever there was a moment for a
revolution in our thinking,” Human Rights lawyer Gareth Peirce says, “this is
it.…
“We have waged war, and we are
continuing to wage endless war in simplistic terms — domestically against our
own Muslim citizens, against others, and against huge swaths of countries, now
moving, for instance, to the Horn of Africa. We cannot continue in this
permanence of combative aggression in our thinking, let alone our actions.…”
The week’s insight
Human Rights Watch’s Peter Bouckaert said last Friday on Democracy Now,
The U.S. CIA and Britain’s MI6 (intelligence agencies) in 2003 and 2004 were
dismantling Qaddafi’s weapons of mass destruction program and at the same time reestablishing
an intelligence relationship with the Libyan government. In a cache of
documents found in Libya by Human Rights Watch, many related “to the [U.S.] rendition
and—to the capture and rendition of Islamist suspects abroad.
“The CIA was offering to capture and render Libyan Islamists to the
Qaddafi government and then they [the CIA agents] were sending to the Qaddafi
government the questions they wanted [Libyan torturers] to ask.”
Bouckaert said, “We also found
many documents [showing] how close their [the intelligence agencies and Qaddafi
government] relationship was. … They show a relationship that went way beyond
the professional into the intimate, really, with a man known for his brutality
and his direct role in repression, a man who probably knows a lot more about
the Lockerbie bombing and other dark chapters in Libyan history than anybody
else.
“One of the documents found is a fax dated Christmas Day 2003. In it,
the head of MI6 clandestine services begins ‘Dear Musa’ and then expresses
regret that Musa is not joining him for Christmas lunch. The fax is signed,
‘Your friend’ and then the name of this person.
Commenting on the findings, Gareth Peirce said if the Obama
administration has said no to an inquiry into the collusion and torture, then worldwide organizations such as the UN Committee against Torture, the European
Committee for the Prevention of Torture and others must conduct inquiries. They
must say, “‘we are going to have an inquiry and we are going to investigate;
and those countries that have endorsed the right for us to enter and
investigate, we’re going to do so.’”
People in influential western
nations have responded to recent Arab uprisings as if they were a reaction to a
recent spark, Peirce says, “without any comprehension of the history of those nations as
places where the worst kind of oppression has taken place; and where U.S. and
British governments have constantly not just backed the wrong horse — it is not
that simplistic a choice; but have backed and encouraged leaders of those
countries who have been monsters, who have oppressed their people. And we have
categorized the resistance and the dissent as the enemy, as Islamic extremism,
radicalism, that has to be eliminated.”
What is put forth in the world is a “simplistic view that the ‘enemy’
has to be eliminated, the enemy has to be gotten. If this keeps going in this
way, then we will be in perpetual war — in terms of hatred and elimination —
not in the quest of perpetual peace.”
The week’s sectors of U.S. war
Southwest Asia
AFGHANISTAN
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| View from Arabian Sea |
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton made an unannounced visit to Kabul this week as
records show the number of U.S.-led war-related deaths in Afghanistan stood at around 5.6 million. Fatalities, beyond general violence, reportedly
have been caused by hunger, deprivation, and adversity generated by the US-led
invasion and occupation of Afghanistan.
Anti-U.S. sentiment has risen as the killing of civilians by foreign
forces has dramatically intensified in Afghanistan.
Today, in a village in the northeastern Kunar Province, a U.S. rocket
struck a residential area and left at least 10 Afghan civilians dead.
A United Nations report on Afghanistan issued on September 28 said that
the monthly average number of security incidents recorded for 2011 until the
end of August had risen by nearly 40 percent.
The report also said civilian casualties, already at record levels in
the first six months of the year, rose five percent between June and August
2011 compared to the same period in 2010.
Around 130,000 people were displaced by the conflict in the first seven
months of the year, up nearly two-thirds from the same period one year earlier.
A U.S.-led airstrike targeting suspected Taliban militants today [updated] hit a
house in Afghanistan’s northeastern province of Kunar and left 13 Afghan
civilians dead.
Yesterday October 19
At least one Afghan civilian died and six others were kidnapped after U.S.
military forces attacked a residential area in the eastern province of
Nangarhar, Press TV reported.
October 16 (last Sunday)
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| Pakistani anti-U.S. demonstration |
U.S.-led soldiers killed an Afghan teacher and his two daughters during
a night raid in eastern Afghanistan. Local officials said the troops stormed
the Wardak Province house and shot and killed the teacher and his daughters,
aged18 and 20.
PAKISTAN
The U.S. Secretary of State also trooped off to this nation under U.S.
drone attack where U.S. relations have plummeted because of the killing of civilians
by the non-UN-sanctioned U.S. drone attacks. Begun by the previous U.S.
administration, the Obama government has escalated these aerial attacks.
Tensions between Islamabad and Washington have also increased because
of the secret U.S. raid into Pakistan that killed al-Qaeda leader Osama bin
Laden in May.
At the time of the U.S. Secretary’s Thursday visit, there were also
reports of “U.S. troops massing in Afghanistan along the Pakistani border, raising concerns in Pakistan about a potential U.S. plan to wage a
military offensive on its North Waziristan region.
Welcoming the U.S. official were hundreds of Pakistanis in the streets
in city of Multan protesting her visit, chanting anti-U.S. slogans, and
slamming Washington for accusing Pakistan of harboring Afghan militants.
This week from official Pakistan came a warning to the United States against
a unilateral ground operation in the restive North Waziristan tribal region. Pakistani
Army Chief General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani reportedly told lawmakers in a
closed-door briefing on Tuesday, “Any such attack by U.S. forces from across
the Afghan border would prove 10 times harder than the wars in Iraq and
Afghanistan.”
Also today in clashes between Pakistani security forces and the Taliban
group in Khyber tribal region in northwest of Pakistan, 3 soldiers and more
than 34 “militants” died in violence.
Middle East
BAHRAIN [U.S. ally]
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| Bahrain protests |
Last month, Bahrain’s court sentenced 20 medical professionals to
between 5 and 15-year terms in jail for their having treated anti-regime protesters. Physicians for Human Rights said doctors and nurses have been detained,
tortured or disappeared because they have ‘evidence of atrocities committed by
the authorities, security forces and riot police’ in crackdowns on
anti-government protesters.
Today, as the regime in Bahrain sends more demonstrators to jail and a
military court in Manama has sentenced 20 more people to six-month jail terms
for protesting against the ruling family, the government has delayed release of
a report about the [U.S.-allied] Saudi-backed brutal crackdown on the pro-democracy protests.
IRAQ
Backed by air strikes, Turkish forces reportedly have entered northern
Iraq to attack Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) ‘terrorists’ in retaliation for
their killing of more than two dozen Turkish soldiers in the southeastern
province of Hakkari.
The offensive is said to have followed a Tuesday attack on Turkish
security forces by PKK militants entering Turkey from the mountains of northern
Iraq.
PALESTINE
Violence and vandalism by Israeli settlers, night time raids and detentions by
Israeli occupation forces, house demolitions, threatened expulsions, and a host
of other practices have deprived Palestinian children of safety and a sense of
security, said UN special Rapporteur Richard Falk. He was reporting Thursday on
the situation of human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories.
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| Middle East - Palestine |
Reporting to the General Assembly’s human rights committee, he raised
concerns about the violence against Palestinian children arrested by Israeli
military and urged Tel Aviv to adopt guidelines in line with humanitarian law
for the detained children.
“‘Arrest procedures documented by UN agencies and reliable human rights
organizations include arrests in the middle of the night, removal of children from
parents for questioning, abusive treatment at detention, and conviction
procedures that appear to preclude findings of not guilty.’”
Gulf to Africa’s Horn
Added to the suffering is U.S. bombing. Somalia is the sixth country
against which the U.S. military has conducted drone strikes. U.S. bombing and
intelligence drones have hit Afghanistan, Pakistan, Libya, Iraq and Yemen.
Yesterday, a U.S. drone strike killed 22 in Kudhaa Island in southern
Somalia near the border with Kenya.
Today, close to Ras Kamboni town in the Badhaadhe district of Lower
Juba region near the border with Kenya another attack by a U.S. unmanned aerial
vehicle (UAV) killed at least 44 civilians and injured 63 others in southern
Somalia.
EARLIER NEWS
U.S. drone attacks kill 26 in Somalia
Kenyan jets strike ‘militants’ in Somalia
U.S. drone attack kills 46 in Somalia
U.S. drone attack kills 18 in Somalia
US drone crashes in Somalia killing five
This suffering is needless, given the resources and know-how of
developed countries: In Mogadishu, Somalia’s capital, a combination of poor
sanitation conditions, scarcity of safe and clean drinking water, and
overcrowding has led to the spread of waterborne diseases.
Today’s report from Somalia says, in Mogadishu 65 more children have
died from cholera where cases of waterborne diseases have increased due to
unhygienic living conditions.
A physician told Press TV the victims died Thursday morning in the
capital’s Hodan neighborhood and added that more than 160 other children,
suffering from cholera and waterborne diseases, were also taken to Banadir and
Digfeer hospitals in southern Mogadishu to get some medication.
EARLIER REPORTS
80 more Somali children die of cholera
Cholera claims 195 more lives in Somalia
Cholera kills 116 children in Somalia
Cholera and hunger kill 83 more Somali kids
French in Africa
A Frenchwoman, cancer-stricken quadriplegic was abducted and died after
being kidnapped from a Kenyan resort island. The abductors are demanding a
ransom for return of the woman’s body.
French officials said on Wednesday that Marie Dedieu, 66, had died in
the hands of her captors, most probably because they had refused to provide her
medication. A group of ten heavily armed gunmen reportedly had kidnapped the French
woman on October 1 from her home on Manda Island in the Lamu archipelago and had taken her to neighboring Somalia.
SOMALIS seek refuge in troubled land
The United Nations Press Service reports today, “Some of the nearly
200,000 Somalis who have sought refuge in Yemen from violence and famine in
their own country are now considering going back home due to worsening security
in the Arabian Peninsula nation.”
The UNHCR (High Commissioner for Refugees) said today “Most new
arrivals tell UNHCR that they were unaware of the situation in Yemen and the
conditions they would be facing.”
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| Yemeni protests |
Supporters and opponents of [U.S.-allied] Yemen’s President Ali Abdullah Saleh have
been fighting for most of this year — while Somalia’s two decades of factional
warfare [together with foreign aggression] have been exacerbated by one of the
worst famines in memory. The dead in Somalia total in the tens of thousands of
people with 750,000 more at risk of death in the coming months, and four
million affected.
Many Somalis left their country with the hope that they would be able reach
to Yemen and other Gulf countries and find work but the deteriorating security
situation in Yemen has curtailed their movement and work opportunities for
refugees are rapidly shrinking. Refugees have little choice but to return to
their troubled country.
LIBYA
Murderer be not proud
Today the United Nations human rights office called for a probe into
Muammar Qaddafi’s death to determine whether he was killed during fighting or
after his capture.
The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) noted that
the circumstances surrounding the ex-Libyan leader’s death yesterday in his
hometown of Sirte are unclear, with four or five different versions of how he
died.
Rupert Colville of the OHCHR said, “There are at least two cell-phone
videos, one showing [the former president] alive and one showing him dead.
Taken together, these videos are very disturbing.… We believe there is a need
for an investigation and more details are needed to ascertain whether he was
killed in the fighting or after his capture.”
Since the start of bombing in Libya began, an estimated 24,000 refugees
have successfully made the voyage from North Africa to Italy’s Lampedusa.
The United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) said on Friday that rescue
efforts must be strengthened as growing numbers of refugees pour out of northern Africa and lose their lives
on the perilous journey across the Mediterranean Sea to Europe. An estimated 1,500
African migrants have been reported missing since NATO launched its
UN-sanctioned bombing campaign in Libya in March, according to UNHCR’s Laura
Boldrini.
During an incident in August UNHCR called for assistance from NATO after
the Italian coast guard came to the aid of a refugee boat packed with 300
people bound for the island of Lampedusa, located halfway between Sicily and
the African coast. Italy reportedly asked a NATO ship in the area to come the
aid of the 20-meter (66-foot) long boat, but the NATO vessel did not respond.
The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) today announced the end
of resettlement for refugees from Libya. Egypt’s Saloum border, which had been
one of the main sites over recent months for people fleeing the crisis in
Libya, will, beginning tomorrow, no longer process arriving third-country
nationals from Libya.
Since the start of the conflict in February, UNHCR and the
International Organization for Migration (IOM) have evacuated 37,866
third-country nationals from Saloum. Yesterday there were 1,816 people still at
Saloum, approximately half of whom have been submitted for resettlement and
most others awaiting the completion of refugee status determination.
AMERICAS
Protesters in Canada take the view that former U.S. President George W.
Bush is responsible for ‘mass murders’ and ‘torture’ and was ‘commander of the
utterly illegal war on Iraq that has caused the deaths of over 1.2 million
Iraqi people.’
Yesterday, during the former president’s visit to attend an economic summit in Canada, hundreds of Canadians protested against the visit and chanted, “‘arrest George Bush.’”
Amnesty International had expressed the belief that George W. Bush is a
war criminal and called on the Canadian government to arrest him the moment he
entered the country.
More needless suffering
Haiti
The United Nations World Health Organization reported that on record
today in Haiti are “470,000 cases of cholera.” In this figure are “6,595 deaths,
which have been reported since an epidemic of the disease erupted in the
Caribbean country a year ago.”
Over the past year, an estimated 250,000 the cholera patients had
been hospitalized. If the current trend continues, a WHO representative told
reporters in Geneva, the disease could infect another 75,000 Haitians by the
end of the year. If this happens, the cumulative total number of cases would
rise to half a million.
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| U.S. rocket on Afghanistan Press TV image |
This year has been a year of displacement crises like no other, said António Guterres of the office of the High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). People fled not so much to far-off industrialized countries as to their neighboring countries.
Through its latest survey, UNHCR found that between January 1 and June
30, 2011, there were 198,300 asylum applications. Last year the survey reported
169,300.
Of the 44 countries surveyed, the main countries of origin for asylum
seekers this year remained largely unchanged from previous surveys: Afghanistan
(15,300 claims); China (11,700); Serbia [and Kosovo] (10,300); Iraq (10,100);
and Iran (7,600).
By continent or region,
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| Roma asylum seekers |
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| Somalis displaced in camps |
Applications for asylum in developed countries rose by 17 percent in
the first six months of this year, with most of those seeking admission coming
from countries with a history of population displacement.
SISTERS AGAINST VIOLENT EXTREMISM (Women without Borders) have voiced
another vision, a SAVE Declaration
“As a woman I will —
- Use the local and global networks of women to stop the killing
- Inspire a new response to prevent terror, violence and discrimination
- Create awareness for not stigmatizing the families of the extremists/terrorists
- Support the young generation with non-violent alternatives in their search for a better life
- Engage all forms of media for spreading the message of non-violence
- Insist on peaceful resolutions to prevent escalation of conflict and violence
- Promote a global dialogue for a future without fear
- Raise my voice against all hostile states and politics that cause suffering
- Recognize the urgency to create “SAVE” spaces for a peaceful coexistence
- Always remember those affected by violent extremism.”
Sources and notes
“Gareth Peirce: Why I still fight for human rights ‘Justice dies when
the law is co-opted for political purposes.’ Gareth Peirce, one of our key
human rights lawyers, talks to Stuart Jeffries,” October 11, 2010,
http://www.guardian.co.uk/law/2010/oct/12/gareth-peirce-fight-human-rights
“Discovered Files Show U.S.,
Britain Had Extensive Ties with Qaddafi Regime on Rendition, Torture—Human
Rights Watch has uncovered hundreds of letters in the Libyan foreign ministry
proving the Qaddafi government directly aided the extraordinary rendition
program carried out by the CIA and the MI6 in Britain after the 9/11 attacks.
The documents expose how the CIA rendered suspects to Libyan authorities
knowing they would be tortured,” September 7, 2011, http://www.democracynow.org/2011/9/7/discovered_files_show_us_britain_had
Peter Bouckaert is emergencies
director at Human Rights Watch and helped find the documents in Tripoli.
“Alleged Inhumane Conditions for Post-9/11 Suspects Sparks Global
Scrutiny of U.S. Detention Policies,” October 14, 2011,
“Ten years after the 9/11 attacks, detention policies in the United
States are facing increasing scrutiny both here and abroad. American citizen
Tarek Mehanna is set to stand trial this month on charges of ‘conspiring to
support terrorism’ and ‘providing material support to terrorists.’
“Mehanna is accused of trying to serve in al-Qaeda’s ‘media wing.’ When
arrested in October 2009, he was 27 years old. Since his arrest, he has been held
in solitary confinement.
“Mehanna was originally courted by the FBI to become an informant.
“Meanwhile, the European Court of Human Rights is hearing a case on the
legality of extradition of terror suspects to the United States on the grounds
that inmates are subjected to inhumane conditions of confinement and routine
violations of due process. This could become a landmark case in human rights
law, potentially damaging the international reputation of the U.S. legal
system.”
In this program discussion of detention policies since 9/11 in the
United States were Tarek Mehanna’s brother, Tamer, and Gareth Peirce, one of
Britain’s best-known human rights lawyers. She has represented WikiLeaks founder
Julian Assange and many prisoners held at the U.S. military base at Guantánamo
Bay. October 14, 2011, http://www.democracynow.org/2011/10/14/alleged_inhumane_conditions_for_post_9
“‘U.S. uses UN as a tool to wage wars’” (Press
TV interview with Sara Flounders, co-director of International Action Center
from New York, asking why the U.S. has made the claim against Iran and whether
legally the U.S. should be held responsible for making false accusations or
not), October 18, 2011, http://www.presstv.ir/detail/205273.html
AFGHANISTAN
“U.S. blast kills 10 Afghan civilians,” October 21, 2011,
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/205834.html
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/205489.html
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/204883.html
PAKISTAN
“Pakistanis protest Clinton's visit,” October 21, 2011,
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/205857.html
“U.S. warned against Pakistan incursion,” October 19, 2011,
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/205451.html
MIDDLE EAST
Caption for Yemen protest
Tens of thousands of Yemenis have taken to the streets in the capital
to call on Ali Abdullah Saleh to learn from the fate of slain Libyan leader
Muammar Gaddafi and step down.
Caption Bahrain protest
Tens of thousands of pro-democracy protesters converge from two
directions to demonstrate outside the walls of King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa's
Safriya Palace in the Bahraini capital of Manama (file photo).
“Bahrain delays report on crackdown,” October 21, 2011,
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/205739.html
“‘Torture of Bahraini detainees persist’— Concerns grow over the health
condition of detained Bahraini opposition leaders amid continuing reports of
ongoing torture in the country’s prisons, Press TV reports, October 20, 2011
“Turkish forces enter Iraq to fight PKK,” October 21, 2011,
In Jordan thousands have rallied in the capital, Amman, to urge prime
minister-designate Awn Khasawneh to implement political reform, October 21,
2011, http://www.presstv.ir/detail/205738.html
“UN calls on Israel to stop harassing kids— The UN has criticized
Israeli violence against Palestinian children, urging the international
community to scale up its protective measures for minors living under Israeli
occupation,” October 21, 2011, http://www.presstv.ir/detail/205736.html
AFRICA
“U.S. drone strike kills 44 in Somalia,” October 21, 2011,
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/205775.html
“Cholera kills 65 more Somali children,” October 20, 2011,
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/205690.html
Caption Somalia displaced hospital scene
A paramedic attends to internally displaced children suffering from
cholera inside a ward at Banadir hospital in Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, on
August 18, 2011. (file photo)
“Abductors ask cash for Dedieu’s body,” October 20, 2011,
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/205642.html
Britannica note
Lamu is a town, port, an island administered as part of Kenya in the
Indian Ocean off the East African coast, 150 miles (241 km) north-northeast of
Mombasa.
Manda is near Lamu on the Kenyan coast, apparently established in the
9th century, distinguished for its seawalls of coral blocks. Trade, which seems
to have been by barter, was considerable, with the main export probably of
ivory. Manda had close trading connections with the Persian Gulf. It imported
large quantities of Islamic pottery and, in the 9th and 10th centuries, Chinese
porcelain. There is evidence of a considerable iron-smelting industry at Manda.
“Somalis fleeing insecurity at home find more insecurity in Yemeni
‘haven’ – UN,” October 21, 2011, http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=40146&Cr=somalia&Cr1=
Refugees
“North African refugee deaths
prompts UN agency to call for assistance — Thousands are fleeing north Africa
for Europe by boat; the Italian coast guard saved another boat full of north
African immigrants bound for Europe after NATO reportedly failed to intervene.
The UN refugee agency has now called for rescue efforts to be redoubled,”
August 5, 2011,
http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,15297933,00.html
LIBYA
“Libya: UN human rights office calls for probe into Qaddafi’s death,”
October 21, 2011,
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=40144&Cr=libya&Cr1=
AMERICAS
“100s of Canadians protest Bush’s visit,” October 21, 2011,
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/205798.html
http://www.presstv.ir/section/3510207.html
Haiti
“Nearly 470,000 cholera cases reported in Haiti over the past year –
UN,” October 21, 2011,
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=40149&Cr=Haiti&Cr1=
Refugees
“Asylum requests in developed countries rose in first half of year –
UN,” October 18, 2011,
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=40091&Cr=asylum&Cr1=
Caption Roma asylum-seekers being housed in Schaerbeek, Belgium
http://womenwithoutborders-save.blogspot.com/p/save-declaration.html
Women without Borders — Sisters Against Violent Extremism
Women without Borders supports women all over the world as they strive
towards the inclusion and participation of women in all levels of the
decision-making process, and helps them to bring their talents and energies
into the public arena.
Women without Borders stands for non-violent conflict resolution in
countries in transition or undergoing reconstruction; advocates a future
without fear, suppression or violence; and works toward positive politics that
cultivate the participation of women.
Women without Borders is an advocacy and PR organization for women
around the globe. As an international initiative for women in politics and
civil society, Women without Borders offers a forum through which women’s
voices can be heard and their concerns made public.
“SAVE (Sisters Against Violent Extremism) is the world’s first female
counter-terrorism platform. Headquartered at the Women without Borders offices
in Vienna, Austria, SAVE brings together a broad spectrum of women determined
to create a united front against violent extremism. SAVE provides women with
the tools for critical debate to challenge extremist thinking and to develop
alternative strategies for combating the growth of global terrorism.”
The participants of the first Global SAVE Conference developed and
signed the SAVE Declaration in 2008.
http://www.women-without-borders.org/save/
http://www.women-without-borders.org/aboutus/
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