It has been nearly three months to the day that 27 Hmong refugees - one adult and 26 teenagers aged 13 to 16-who were taken in by the provisional displaced persons settlement of Ban Houai Nam Khao (Phetchaboun province, Thailand), were expelled by the Thai authorities and sent back to Laos, according to concordant information received by the Lao Movement for Human Rights (LMHR).

This group of teenagers comprised of 21 young girls and 5 boys, was challenged by the Thai police on 28 November 2005 as they were returning from a choir practice in preparation of the Christmas celebrations.
They were taken to the border city of Nongkhai by bus in the beginning of December, and expelled towards Laos without any notice to their parents.

Paul Wesley Rhora and his three children filed a civil action against the
Hamilton-Wentworth Detention Centre and the Hamilton Police Department for
failing to acknowledge and accommodate Mr. Rhora's mental health disabilities while in custody, leading to the death of another inmate.

20 February 2006. A World to Win News Service. The tension between the Iranian regime and the West went up another notch when the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) voted to report Iran to the UN Security Council for possible punitive measures. The prospect of another conflict in the strategically important Middle East set off alarms around the world.

GLOBAL FEMINISMS & SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION

3rd and 4th of March, 2006 Concordia University: 1455 de Maisonneuve Ouest
(Métro Guy)

Nobody is allowed to take away your right to Freedom of Speech. So when they start putting us in jail for what we think and write; questions we rightfully ask, than we have lost our freedom of speech.

Le 13 février 1996 s’ouvrait un tout nouveau chapitre dans l’histoire du Népal : c’est en effet ce jour-là que le Parti communiste du Népal (maoïste) a choisi pour prendre la tête des masses opprimées et mener une série d’assauts audacieux, simultanément à travers tout le pays.

13 February 2006. A World to Win News Service. The worldwide upsurge of anger sparked by the anti-Islamic cartoons was the main item on the agenda for the meeting of Nato defence ministers at the weekend. This reveals how much all the imperialist powers feel that their strategic interests are at stake. It is impossible to understand the fury surrounding these caricatures first published in Denmark without looking at the material interests and political and economic factors involved. It is also important to examine the relationship between those interests and the propagation of certain ideas, and the complex interaction between those two spheres.

13 February 2006. A World to Win News Service. The boycott and general strike against the Nepal monarchy’s attempt to hold municipal elections 8 February was a big success – so much so that the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) called off the remaining four days of the eight-day bandh to avoid unnecessary hardship to the population. During this period, the People’s Liberation Army inflicted serious losses on the royal army in battles in widely separated regions.

This summer, Rainforest Action Network and ForestEthics will select a team of individuals interested in learning to live, organize, and take non-violent direct action with the community of Grassy Narrows and help them pressure Weyerhaeuser and Abitibi Consolidated to indefinitely and immediately halt logging in their territory until the community has decided amongst themselves how they want to manage their land. We seek dedicated activists, writers, photographers and videographers with a commitment to social and ecological justice.