On March 4 and 5, activists from the U.S. took International A.N.S.W.E.R.’s call for April 20 to be an International Day of Protest Against War & Racism to the Second International Encounter in Solidarity and for Peace in Colombia and Latin America in Mexico City. This call was met with an overwhelmingly positive response, and as a result, demonstrations for April 20 are now planned across the world.

Rejected by the Commonwealth and abandoned by his peers, despised in his capital and banned from most of the developed world, it is just possible that President Mugabe, may now be starting to realise the price of victory in last month's disputed presidential poll.

The United Nations war crimes tribunal for Rwanda today adjourned until September the trial of the alleged mastermind behind the country's 1994 genocide one day after it began to give the prosecution and defence teams more time to ensure the case would proceed smoothly.

The international tribunal for Rwanda is to bring its first charges against Tutsis accused of murdering Hutus during the 1994 genocide, despite Kigali's attempts to block the investigations.

A Rwandan musician accused of writing songs and poems that incited the killings of ethnic Tutsis in 1994 pleaded not guilty to charges of genocide before a U.N. tribunal on Thursday.

21 March 2002 is the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, and marks the start of a week of solidarity with The peoples struggle Against Racism and Racial Discrimination, 21 - 27 March 2002. According to the United Nations, "Racial Discrimination shall mean any distinction, exclusion, restriction or preference based on race, colour, descent, or national or ethnic origin which has the purpose or effect of nullifying or impairing the recognition, enjoyment or exercise, on an equal footing, of human rights and fundamental freedoms in the political, economic, social, cultural or any other field of public life".

"In Cyberspace, nobody knows your race unless you tell them. Do you tell?" Several years ago, I put this slogan on a poster advertising an MIT-hosted public forum about race and digital space. The resulting controversy was an eyeopener. Like many white liberals, I had viewed the absence of explicit racial markers in cyberspace with some optimism—seeing the emerging "virtual communities" as perhaps our best hope ever of achieving a truly color-blind society. But many of the forum's minority participants—both panelists and audience members—didn't experience cyberspace as a place where nobody cared about race. Often, they'd found that people simply assumed all participants in an online discussion were white unless they identified themselves otherwise.

Mpumalanga's safety and security department's R31,3-million budget for this financial year aims to increase public awareness, improve efficiency of the criminal justice system and end racism within the police.

On Human Rights Day 2002, the Congress of South African Trade Unions salutes all the heroes and heroines of South Africa who sacrificed their lives in the struggle for human rights, human dignity, democracy and freedom...

Should not humanitarian institutions be as involved in trying to deal with the conflicts and violence faced by IDPs as they are in delivering basic humanitarian assistance? If one does not address violence affecting IDPs, any solution reached at a higher political level will be unsustainable. Displaced people are an integral part of civil society and should be included in all peace and reconciliation processes. Hopefully, one day IDPs will be able to return home. When they do, land, property and ethnic-related conflicts will confront them. Engaging IDPs in conflict resolution activities stimulates reflection and provides skills to reduce tension, avoid violence and resolve conflicts. Today’s conflict resolution is tomorrow’s conflict prevention.

A National Assembly home affairs committee schedule to expedite the much-delayed Immigration Bill before a Constitutional Court deadline has been approved by the house's programme committee.

The UN Security Council has proposed the establishment of channels of communication that would allow refugees and internally displaced people (IDPs) to raise complaints of sexual abuse by staff of the UN and partner organisations.

Zimbabwe's Commonwealth membership has been suspended for 12 months with immediate effect after the troika of Commonwealth leaders responsible for delivering a verdict on the country's violent presidential election confounded their critics.

Senior leaders of Angola's Unita rebels have been arrested, say the group's representatives based in Europe.

Zimbabwe's main opposition leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, has been summoned to court to hear charges formally accusing him of treason, his aides say.

The special war crimes tribunal for Sierra Leone could be holding its first trials by late 2003, according to a UN report released on Friday.

General Tommy Franks, head of the US Central Command, continued his tour of Horn of Africa countries with visits to Ethiopia and Djibouti at the weekend. "We have known of links to al-Qaeda [terrorist network] in and through Somalia for a considerable period of time," he said. He added that he could not go into specifics, but the US "will not take off the table the possibility of action against countries of concern".

The Ugandan government has identified and demarcated a new site on which it plans to resettle some 2,673 Ugandan returnees from Tanzania, who have been camped under difficult conditions at Kikagati, Mbarara District, in southern Uganda, according to a senior official at the Office of the Prime Minister (OPM).

Fighting was still going on Monday between Burundi army and rebels of the Forces nationale de liberation (FNL) in Nyambuye, an area within Bujumbura-Rural, adjacent to the Burundi capital Bujumbura, sources confirmed to IRIN on Monday.

On Thursday, the DRC government delegation walked out of the inter-Congolese dialogue, claiming that Rwanda and the RCD rebels had violated the country's cease-fire. IRIN spoke to Mwenze Kongolo about the suspension of Kinshasa's participation.