Professor Phillip Alston, Special Rapporteur of the United Nations Human Rights spent ten days in February 2007 to look into the allegations of extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions of human rights activists in the...
Alston urges President Arroyo to confront culture of virtual impunity
(22.02.2007) UN envoy Philip Alston has accused the army in the Philippines of being "in a state of almost total denial" about the wave of political killings, the BBC reported on Wednesday. Many of these killings in the past...
(06.03.2007) The former Prime Minister of Namibia and current Member of Parliament, Honourable Dr. Hage Geingob, has called on Government to introduce the Basic Income Grant (BIG) in Namibia. Geingob used his address to the...
Bielefeld, Germany, 13 March (ENI)--Churches, their allied development groups and governments of countries in Southern Africa should hold a round table to discuss the problems of land reform and rural poverty in the region,...
(2007/04/13) The United Evangelical Mission (UEM) is raising funds to support the emergency aid for refugees of the Methodist Church of Sri Lanka, MC-SL. The MC-SL is one of the UEM member churches in Asia.