ICNC is now accepting applications for the 2010 Fletcher Summer Institute for the Advanced Study of Nonviolent Conflict at Tufts University. This week-long Institute, now in its fifth year, will run from June 20 – 26 and brings together international professionals and journalists from around the world to learn from top practitioners and scholars about strategic concepts and present applications of civil resistance.
The application deadline has been extended to March 15, 2010 !
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MIDDLE EAST/NORTH AFRICA
Sanctions against Iran should not target civilians
By: Bernama, March 2, 2010 Russia could consider agreeing to new sanction against Iran if the international diplomatic efforts failed to settle the issue of Iran’s nuclear programme on condition that the sanctions should not target Iranian civilians. Read full article… Iran ‘not co-operating’ says new IAEA chief Reformist newspapers banned in Iran Iran: Prosecutor warns protesters ahead of ancient fire festival Pressure on northern Iran students continues: Eight prison sentences upheld Egypt: A blogger sent to a military court for a post he published a year ago Iraqi Christians protest slayings Israel police storm holy site to quell protest Israel: Knesset takes steps to silence human rights organizations Palestine: Cultivating resistance Palestine: Weekly protest video round-up IPSC boycott Israeli goods protest Dispatches from the edge: Israeli crackdown Ex-UN nuclear chief: Change in Egypt is inevitable Nonviolence in Palestine Iraq: Rebirth of a nation Lebanon: Hezbollah chief Nasrallah meets Ahmadinejad in Syria Iranian parliamentarians want journalists, activists released Another puzzle after Iran moves nuclear fuel Iran: Prisoners spend their days in line Will El Baradei run for president of Egypt? Iran: From protest to politics Shine a light for Palestinian freedom Egypt: 3,000 years of nonviolent resistance Egyptian clerics debate permissibility of using Facebook and other websites |
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CENTRAL ASIA
Tajikistan: OSCE says Tajik elections failed democratic standards
By: RFE, March 1, 2010 Europe’s main election watchdog says Tajikistan’s parliamentary and local elections on February 28 failed to meet basic democratic standards. In a statement, the OSCE said its hundreds of observers had “highlighted serious irregularities on election day, including a high prevalence of family and proxy voting and cases of ballot box stuffing,” claims seconded by opposition politicians. Read full article… Kyrgyzstan: Police get suspended sentences in journalist’s death Sting in the pay of tyrannical Uzbekistan regime |
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SOUTH ASIA
Sri Lanka’s human-rights and free-speech problems need international attention
By: Peter Mountford, Seattle Times, February 26, 2010 In post-civil war Sri Lanka, where democratic institutions are more imperiled than ever, the international press has a vital role to play – even more important than the diplomatic efforts of our governments – in forcing greater transparency and accountability. Read full article… |
By: Jeanne Carmel Puertollano, Noynoy, March 1, 2010
People Power is one of my favorite moments in history because of what it represents – how every Filipino can work together to free this country from an exploitative government. It’s about working for the freedom which our heroes have fought for. It’s about loving this country so much that we’d go all-out to see it free from the forces of evil.
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New guidebook highlights ethnic repression in Burma’s Shan state
By: Tania Campbell, March 2010
The recent publication of a guidebook about Burma’s Shan State highlights the destruction and repression of its culture and people by the Burmese military junta and reveals the darker side of tourism in that region.
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From undercover journalists’ sacrifice, “Burma VJ” wins over 40 international awards
By: South Asia Speaks, March 1, 2010
The extra ordinary effort by the clandestine group led by an untiring, hyper determined democracy activist using the name “Joshua” working from behind iron curtains in Myanmar as undercover journalists to bring to the world, the life and plight of the people of Myanmar sees little parallels in recent media history.
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Burma: Suu Kyi’s appeal rejection condemned
By: Mizzima, February 28, 2010
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown on Friday said he is ‘appalled and saddened’ that Burma’s military government has rejected an appeal filed by opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s lawyers against her sentencing in August 2009.
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Burma: Court rejects Suu Kyi appeal
By: Aung Hla Tun, Reuters, February 26, 2010
Myanmar’s Supreme Court on Friday rejected an appeal by pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi against her house arrest, a ruling diplomats said would cast further doubt on the legitimacy of this year’s election.
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‘Citizen Journalism’ the key to ‘Burma VJ’
By: Steve Pond, The Wrap, February 26, 2010
Painstakingly pieced together from pieces of film shot on small cameras and sometimes on cell phones, the film tells the story of an uprising that swept the country in September 2007; led by the country’s Buddhist monks, students and others took to the streets for days of protest that were finally quelled by military force, and by the beatings, arrests and killings of monks. U Gawsita, one of the monks who appears in the film leading some of the protests (with megaphone in photo below), later fled the country and now lives in upstate New York; he accompanied the Danish filmmakers on a recent trip to Los Angeles that included the Oscar Nominees Luncheon.
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Little hope for Burma’s political prisoners
By: Larry Jagan, Mizzima, February 26, 2010
The United Nations special rapporteur for human rights in Burma, Tomas Ojea Quintana believes there that the country’s political prisoners will not be freed any time soon. “There seems to be no movement on political prisoners since my last trip [a year ago],” the UN envoy told Mizzima in an interview in Bangkok a few days ago. “In fact the government continues to deny that there are any prisoners of conscience.”
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Burma’s looming election sham
By: Simon Roughneen, ISN, February 22, 2010
Burma’s military junta puts on a show of democracy, freeing one opposition figure while many others languish in prison, and contriving to set up front parties to compete in what can only be a sham poll, Simon Roughneen comments for ISN Security Watch.
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Crusader rowing upstream in Cambodia
By: Seth Mydans, NY Times, February 19, 2010
“I’m going to get my votes!” cried Mu Sochua as she stepped into a slender rowboat, holding one side for balance. “One by one.” The most prominent woman in Cambodia’s struggling political opposition, Mu Sochua, 55, is campaigning now, three years before the next election, because she is almost entirely excluded from government-controlled newspapers and television.
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