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A New Slanging Match

Nepal confronts the UN over two reports on the ‘homeless’ and the ‘stateless’

(CHENNAI The Indian Express) - In early 1987, the UN country representative in Sri Lanka had a meeting with then President Junius Jayewardene to offer any help the UN could.

“That would not be a pleasant thing to happen, as Sri Lanka will be kicked like a football by its 180-odd members,” was the president’s firm answer.

Calling Ministers to Account, or Trying To

So I've written to my MP Henry Bellingham, who recently lost his job as a Foreign Office minister, asking him to kindly table these two written questions.

(LONDON) - Here's an easy test of our much vaunted western democracy...

You know, the kind we want to impose on everyone else, especially those nasty uncivilised regimes in the Middle East that go around attacking other nations instead of quietly minding their own business like the US and Britain.

US State Department Must Stop Rohingya Ethnic Cleansing in Burma: Initiate Sending UN Peacekeeping Force

Sign the petition to help these people!

(WASHINGTON DC) - Since October 21, organized mobs of Rakhine Buddhist extremist headed by fanatic monks declared a campaign to wipe out ethnic Rohingya Muslim from their ancestral lands of Burma.

The local, state and national government of U Thein Sein are supporting crime against humanity to achieve their dream of Muslim free Arakan and Burma.

President Debates

No one raised the issue of the illegal Israeli settlers in the West Bank, or the problem of the Mexican civil war and drug lords, nor was the problem of immigration addressed.

(MANAMA, Bahrain) - The coming U.S. elections have monopolized the attention of the American mainstream media and voters.

Economic issues held sway over the first of two presidential debates, and foreign policy governed the second.

Visit `Lesli Moore Dahlke YouTube Channel` for Inspired Insight into Agent Orange and Vietnam

New video channel offers very real, raw, vulnerable dialog of surviving cancer and Agent Orange.

(LOS ANGELES) - Lesli Moore Dahlke is part of the civilian population who lived and worked in Vietnam.

Lesli's new YouTube channel launched just two days ago --- and the Collateral Damage "short" from Lesli's Documentary is up, as of yesterday.

Another Muslim Village, Kinipran, Burns Under Buddhist Flame

Incident in Pauk Taw township work of Rakhines in collaboration of Nasaka forces. Is it not enough for UN to deploy its army in Arakan?

(DHAKA, Bangladesh) - We have learned from reliable sources over the telephone that today the Rakhines from Pauk Taw township, torched a big Muslim Rohingya village of about 1200 homes with the collaboration of Nasaka forces at 12.00 noon today.

The name of the village is "Kinipran", in Pauk Taw.

Alaska Tsunami Warning Advisory Now Extends to Northern California and Southern Oregon

Significant widespread inundation is not called for or expected under an advisory. However currents will become dangerous...

(LINCOLN CITY, OR) - A tsunami warning continues to remain in effect following a 7.7 earthquake off the coast of British Columbia.

Tajikistan: Association of Young Lawyers `Amparo` Closed Down

Mr. Gomes says charges are solely motivated by their legitimate and peaceful human rights work...

(SALEM) - A group of lawyers in Tajikistan are the latest target of government intervention in the human rights field.

Rajan Zed invited to `World Economic Forum`

USA based Rajan Zed has taken up interfaith, religion, environment, Roma (Gypsies) and other causes all over the world.

(RENO, NV) - Distinguished religious statesman Rajan Zed, who is president of Universal Society of Hinduism, has been invited to participate in “World Economic Forum”.

Myanmar Refugees: Babies are Dying Aboard Boats that Can`t Come Ashore

It doesn't have to be this way... people in this world are calling for justice.

(SACRAMENTO, CA) - In spite of fragmented efforts by the Burmese government to quell violence stemming from religious unrest, a long, systematic series of attacks from the Rakhine Buddhists continue.

Rohingya Muslims are suffering under the most brutal conditions while U.S. media and politicians turn a blind eye.