Conflict
Crisis/Conflict/Terrorism
Research Associate, Institute for Conflict Management In the night of February 12, 2014, some 15 armed cadres of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) hacked a tribal, identified as Samuel Badra (50), to death in the tribal-dominated Pattamunda village under Pallahara Police Station limits of Angul District. Maoists left some posters at the incident site claiming he was punished for being a ‘police informer’. more
KP: Declining Violence, Increasing Threat

Research Associate, Institute for Conflict Management At least 22 Shias were killed and another 50 were injured when a three member suicide squad attacked an Imambargah (Shia place of wor ...

Egypt attacks IS group in Libya after video of mass beheading surfaces

Cairo, Feb 16 (JEN): Egypt on Monday launched airstrikes against Islamic State targets in Libya after the extremist group released a video, which showed the beheading of several Egyptian Cop ...

Security Council demands Houthi militias 'immediately' withdraw from capital, begin political process

New York, Feb 16 (JEN) Demanding that secessionist Houthi militias in Yemen "immediately and unconditionally" withdraw from Government and security institutions, the Security Council this ev ...

Condemning Copenhagen attacks, Ban urges 'strong stand' for tolerance, end to discrimination

New York, Feb 16 (JEN) Strongly condemning this weekend's attacks at a freedom of expression event near a synagogue in Copenhagen, Denmark, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Su ...

2 killed, 5 injured in Copenhagen shootings

Copenhagen, Feb 15 (JEN): Denmark has been put on high alert on Sunday as hours after the first shooting at a cafe, a similar incident was reported from Copenhagen city where shots were fire ...

Egypt: UN's Ban welcomes release of detained journalists, urges fair trial

New York, Feb 14 (JEN) United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has applauded the decision by Egyptian authorities to release on bail the detained Al Jazeera journalists, Mohamed Fahmy a ...

UN rights expert calls for halt to Indonesia executions, cites international obligations

New York, Feb 14 (JEN) A United Nations human rights official has on Friday urged Indonesia not to follow through with the executions of eight people who were convicted of drug-related offe ...

UN chief calls for tolerance, acceptance after three Muslims Americans shot in North Carolina

New York, Feb 14 (JEN) United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has expressed his “deepest condolences” to the families of three Muslim Americans who were killed in the state of Nor ...

UN warns of ‘urgent’ humanitarian situation as Boko Haram attacks spill over Nigeria border

New York, Feb 14 (JEN): As the continuing violence in north-east Nigeria spills across the country’s borders and into neighbouring Chad, Cameroon and Niger, the United Nations refugee agen ...