The human rights group, Human Rights Watch, in a briefing paper, has called on the Ugandan Parliament to reject a proposed law threatening the legitimate activities of civil society.

The Green Party of the United States urges President Bush and other U.S. leaders to continue condemning the harassment and blame of Arabs and Muslims in the U.S. or around the world in the wake of the terrible events of September 11.

The United Kingdom deposited its ratification of the Rome Statute for the International Criminal Court on Thursday, October 4, the third country to do so in three days.

As the U.S. government demands international support for a fierce and protracted war without borders, accurate information and thoughtful global communication is needed more than ever.

AITEC GHANA and World Money Laundering Report have announced that the first All Africa Financial Crime Forum is to be held at the Accra International Conference Centre on March 18-21, 2002. This conference is expected to be opened by the President of Ghana His Excellency John Kuffour and will attract over 1000 delegates all over the World.

On October 3, the Central African Republic became the forty-first country to ratify the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. We are now over two thirds of the way towards the 60 ratifications required to make the court a reality. The International Criminal Court will complement existing national judicial systems. It will be a permanent tribunal that will investigate and prosecute those individuals accused of crimes against humanity, genocide, and crimes of war.

There is perhaps no place better to focus anti-racism efforts than to educate children and youth about racism and how to combat it. Racism, after all, is only as strong as its proponents and practitioners and educating the next generations is surely one of the most effective ways of reducing the number of racists and the potential appeal of their message. Accordingly, this Report focuses on anti-racism educational efforts directed at children and youth.

Urgent measures, including the implementation of long-term development projects, are needed to tackle Africa's protracted refugee crises, UNHCR's annual Executive Committee meeting was told.

UNHCR on Wednesday urged governments considering new asylum safeguards in the aftermath of Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in the United States to strike a careful balance between additional security needs and existing international refugee protection principles.

At the opening of an enormous new trinational conservation area in southern Africa, former President Nelson Mandela called on the people of the world to get rid of the scourge of terrorism. At a ceremony Thursday he used the newly named Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park as an example of lasting global peace.

The Kenyan police force came under the spotlight in the local press this week after six prisoners were found beaten to death in police cells in Thika, northeast of the capital, Nairobi.

British Prime Minister Tony Blair has described the current state of poverty in Africa as "a scar on our consciences". And he said that if the world as a community focused on it, it could be healed but if not "it will become deeper and angrier".

A senior official of the African National Congress has been arrested in South Africa on charges that he profited from a controversial multi-billion dollar arms deal in 1999.

The appearance of a pro-Hitler pamphlet at the World Conference Against Racism (WCAR) held in Durban was one of many ironies attesting to the continuing strength of raw anti-Semitism. It was published by the Durban-based Islamic Propagation Centre International, now revealed to have received at least US $3 million (about R27 million) from Osama bin Laden.

The third World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia, and Related Intolerance (WCAR), held in Durban from August 31 to September 8, has received largely negative press. But for those of us present in Durban, this was not the whole picture. The voices of thousands of victims of racism and xenophobia were heard and the achievements in many areas were far-reaching. Not least amongst these, were gains made in the defence of refugee and migrants' rights for which NGOs, in particular, should be especially proud.

A must-read for policy makers, government leaders, journalists, educators, relief workers, and humanitarians alike: the World Refugee Survey 2001 provides exclusive insight and expert analysis of the most up-to-date issues facing refugees and internally displaced persons worldwide.

Within the near future, as many as 160,000 Eritrean refugees who fled to Sudan during Eritrea’s 30-year war for independence expect to repatriate with the assistance of UNHCR. Based on a USCR site visit to Eritrea in February 2001, this report assesses this refugee reintegration into Eritrea after a decade-long stay in Sudan.

The revamped Zimbabwean supreme court delivered a temporary ruling yesterday which upheld President Robert Mugabe's "fast track" seizures of white-owned land.

US intelligence officials believe that Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda organisation may be moving its operations base out of Afghanistan to Somalia. Bin Laden may also be planning to follow.

Liberia's President, Charles Taylor, on Friday announced the reopening of its borders with neighbouring Sierra Leone and Guinea, the pro-government Radio Liberia International (RLI) reported.