“Todo sera mejor.” (Everything will be better.)
March 19, 2008
March 18, 2008
UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
http://www.nit.com.au/downloads/files/Download_165.pdf
http://www.un.org/esa/socdev/unpfii/en/declaration.html
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Poll Chaos ‘Was Planned’
Post-Election violence in Eldoret, Nakuru and Naivasha was organised by businessmen and political leaders, the Human Rights Watch (HRW) has claimed.
The report – Ballots to Bullets, Organised Political Violence and Kenya’s Political Crisis of Governance – claims leaders held meetings to prepare residents for ‘war’ if they lost the election.
Presenting the report on Monday, human rights researcher, Mr Ben Rawlence, called on the Government to prosecute perpetrators of chaos and restore trust of victims.
“The coalition government should support the inquiries established under the February 2008 mediation process to investigate abuses by State forces and those responsible for violence,” he said.
“As displaced people move to their ancestral homes, there is real risk that ethnic jingoism will increase and tensions rise as victims share their stories,” warns the report.
To forestall further polarisation, the HRW group recommends a safe return or re-location of displaced populations.
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New movement pushes for an international CPLC force
An international petition demanding the creation of a multinational police and army force constituted solely of forces originating from the Community of Portuguese Language Countries – a community of Peace and as such an example for the world.
The recently founded International Lusophone Movement (Movimento Internacional Lusofono) has started it’s activities by pushing an international petition demanding the creation of a multinational police and army force constituted solely of forces originating from the Community of Portuguese Language Countries (CPLC: Angola, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, Sao Tome e Principe, Brazil, East Timor and Portugal – Mauritius and Equatorial Guinea also hold observer status), the petition so far gathered 341 signatures and can be viewed at http://www.petitiononline.com/mil1001/petition.html.
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