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Greek police fail to learn lessons of December

Just hours after the shooting of 15 year old Alexandros Grigoropoulos by a police officer in the Exarchia district of central Athens, hundreds started violent protests that would last for weeks and cost the country...

Protesters turn pirates in immigration centre demo

In a move, reminiscent of pirate movies from the past, demonstrators from Greece, Germany, Italy and France in a flotilla of small boats took to the sea in order to blockade the Greek island of Lesvos (Mytilini)....

Greece's disappearing child refugees raise concern

Questions still remain about the fate of 12 under age refugees from Afghanistan and Iraq who disappeared from a shelter in Thessaloniki, Greece’s second city. According to reports in the Greek press the 12 were...

UNHCR and Save the Children aid workers arrested in Sri Lanka

I would like to check the details on this story from a Sri Lankan newspaper. I have not found anything so far on the web. It's a disturbing development. Does anyone have any further information? Tigers in INGO clothing By Tissa Ravindra Perera Now that the Wanni battle...

Two foreigners in a LTTE suicide plot to kill Sri Lanka President

" Two foreigners involved in a LTTE suicide plot to kill Sri Lanka President - report Sun, Jun 28, 2009, 09:11 pm SL Time, ColomboPage, Sri Lanka. June 28, Colombo: Two foreign nationals along with three...

Children selling kidneys to feed family

A well-known journalist from Baluchistan, Malik Siraj Akbar, has reported Baluch children who are escaping Pakistan military operation in their occupied homeland are forced to sell their kidneys because of...

John Solecki: a victim of apathy?

DAILY TIMES Thursday, March 19, 2009  By Malik Siraj Akbar QUETTA: Having previously extended its deadline three times, the Baloch Liberation United Front (BLUF) – which abducted the American head of the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR), John...

The Lead-up to Sudan's Expelling NGOs - United Nations Stalemate

On Mar. 4, the International Criminal Court (ICC) has issued a warrant for the arrest of  Omar Hassan Al-Bashir, President of the Republic of Sudan, for his alleged responsibility for crimes committed in Darfur,...

Heavyweights' grandson appeals for Solecki's freedom

A young Briton and international Baluch rights activist who had come on a private visit to the US but was thoroughly mistreated at the Newark airport, handcuffed, deported, and his visa waiver privilege revoked has shed his bitterness about the incident and has called for the...

Forget Pakistan, free Solecki

UPDATES: Breakthrough is likely in efforts to get UNHCR chief in Baluchistan, John Solecki, freed as officials of the United Nations met with legendary Baluch leader Nawab Khair Baksh Marri, Faiz Baluch, a confidante...

Kidnapped American is our blood and bone, say Baluch

As consensus still remains intact it was an inside job of the infamous Inter Services Intelligence, to err on the side of caution two US-based Baluch organizations have called for the immediate release of John...

Baluch abductors urged to free UN man

One man harmed unjustly is an affront to 6.75 billion humans that call Mother Earth their home. I am totally, what the Baluch call, mayareeg. This means feeling publicly embarrassed. To know where I am coming from,...

American kidnapping is ISI dirty game

 Wire stories attributed to Pakistan's Online news services have said Baluch nationalists fighting for independence have claimed responsibility for the kidnapping of John Solecki, an American who heads...

UNHCR seeks access to 126 Muslim Rohingya boat people in Thailand

GENEVA, January 20 2009(UNHCR) – The UN refugee agency on Tuesday asked the Thai government for access to 126 detained Muslim Rohingya boat people in order to assess their situation and determine whether any of them are in need of international protection. This follows...

Another humanitarian tragedy that fails to hit the prime time

While the war on Gaza preoccupies the attention of international media, human rights organisations international community and public at large another humanitarian tragedy of equal gravity unfolds largely...

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