Iran: Mousavi declares spreading awareness main strategy

MirHosein Mousavi announced that the main strategy of the Green Movement is an expansion of social networks and dissemination of information, and he invited supporters to inform the disadvantaged strata of the society in the framework of “every citizen, a media.”

Rwandan genocide: Ephrem Setako sentenced to twenty years

The United Nations war crimes tribunal set up in the wake of the 1994 Rwandan genocide has sentenced a former top officer in the country’s armed forces to 25 years of imprisonment after being found guilty of genocide and crimes against humanity.

Iran: Student Movement Under Greater Attack. Pressure Mounts to Dissolve Daftar Tahkim Vahdat

Pressures continue on Iran’s largest student organization, Daftar Tahkim Vahdat (Office to Strengthen Unity). Earlier in the week, news came that Amin Nazari, a member of the central council of the student group and the head of its human rights division was arrested, despite his poor health. Till today, no details about his situation have been put forth by authorities.

Proposal: Nobel Prize for Peace to the iranian green movement

In recent years, the Nobel Prize for Peace has become something very abstract when not political. If we think that in 1994 was awarded to Yasser Arafat in 2001 at the United Nations in 2007 to Al Gore in 2009 and even to Barack Obama with a few notable and deserved interlude (we think that sacrosanct given to Shirin Ebadi in 2003 or that of Aung San Suu Kyi in 1991) then we wonder what really serves the award of the Nobel Peace Prize and has the same values that he had time of its formation.

South Sudan: World Bank vows to speed spending

The World Bank acknowledged on Thursday it needs to speed up funding for rebuilding war-torn South Sudan but said it also had to ensure the aid was not wasted through corruption or mismanagement.

Letter to Iran's leader: son of opposition figure harshly beaten inside mosque

The wife of one of Iran's opposition leaders accused the nation's supreme leader Sunday of allowing violence and abuses to crush opponents, including the alleged beating of her son during last week's protests.

URGENT - Silent march in protest of the human and civil rights violations taking place in Iran

"Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind." Ralph Waldon Emerson - “A great revolution in just one single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a society and, further, will enable a change in the destiny of humankind.” Daisaku Ikeda quotes

IRAN: Internet access, text-messaging service down as 22 Bahman protests approach

In the last week, Internet connections across Iran have slowed to a crawl, with sources in Tehran reporting that, when service is available at all, it is so slow that checking e-mail is nearly impossible.

Iran: unveiled plans to assassinate Khatami

With only three days remaining until the Iranian Green Movement’s 22 Bahman rally (this is the 11th of February coinciding with the victory of the 1979 revolution), a commander of the Islamic Passdaran Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) explained what he referred to as “details of the plan to assassinate Mohammad Khatami and the martyrdom conspiracy,” raising concerns in political circles about the possibility of the assassination of one of the Green Movement’s leaders in the coming days.

Open letter of Iranian Journalists to Foreign Colleagues

Dear Fellow Journalists

A group of Iranian journalists have written a letter to foreign reporters who are invited to Iran by Iran’s government to provide media coverage to the celebrations of the anniversary of the victory of the Islamic Revolution.

New shocking video from taliban: how to convert an infidel with flogging

A new shocking video was released by the Taliban. In the video you can see the flogging of some men who do not respect the Taliban rules. Back to the controversy between Secondo Protocolo and YouTube for censorship applied by the most famous video platform on these movies.

China Action Day in Support of Freedom in Iran: Friday, February 5, 2010

STOP CRACKDOWNS ON IRANIAN PEOPLE - Demand China end support for Ahmadinejad and Basij Militia
WHERE -(1) Outside Chinese embassies and consulates including Washington D.C., Chicago, and Houston in US and beyond (Other cities are expected to be added) (2) Chinese Consulate in Chicago 100 West Erie Street , Chicago, IL60611 (Gathering is on the Opposite Side of the Street)
WHEN - Friday, February 5th, 11:30 am - 1pm

Africa Union and World Bank together to promote peace in Africa

The African Union and the World Bank are combining efforts to promote innovative approaches to achieving long lasting peace, economic development, and security in conflict-affected countries through collaboration of two flagship projects: The African Year of Peace and Security and the World Development Report 2011 on conflict, security and development.

Western Sahara: new talks in the United States between Morocco and Polisario Front

The parties in the dispute over the status of Western Sahara, where fighting broke out between Morocco and the Frente Polisario after Spain’s colonial administration ended in 1976, have agreed to a United Nations proposal to hold their next set of informal talks next week in the United States.

Uganda: anti-homosexuality law threat to fighting AIDS

The so-called ‘Anti-Homosexuality Bill’ under consideration by the Ugandan Parliament not only violates the fundamental human rights of Ugandans, but will also impede efforts to combat HIV, a United Nations independent expert warned today.

Protests in Iran: the next meeting on 11 February

Bells chimed across Iran on Monday to mark the return from exile in 1979 of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the trigger for a revolution which spawned an Islamic state now engulfed in a deep political crisis.