Entries from Byline Portal tagged with 'Violence'
Imprisoned, Tortured, Killed: Human Trafficking Thrives on Sinai Peninsula
by Nicola Abé in North Sinai, Der Spiegel, Germany - The Sinai Peninsula has become a prison and grave for thousands of African refugees. They are kidnapped, imprisoned and tortured to death even after their families have paid hefty ransoms....
The Fragility of Trust: Neo-Nazi Victims Seek Peace with Germany
by Beate Lakotta, Der Spiegel, Germany - Semiya Simsek's family was torn apart 13 years ago when her father was murdered in Nuremberg by a neo-Nazi terror cell. Even worse, German authorities for years suspected the family had been involved....
A Weapon-Free Karachi?
by Zubeida Mustafa, Dawn, Pakistan - It is now very clear that without a deweaponisation exercise there is absolutely no way of ending the violence in the metropolis....
Syria's War Leaves Its Scars on the Children
by Deborah Amos, NPR, USA - The war in Syria is taking a huge toll on the children. An international team of researchers that interviewed Syrian kids in a refugee camp in Turkey found that 3 out of 4 have...
Newtown, CT: The Culture of Terror and the Failure of the National Security Agenda
by Falguni A. Sheth, Translation Exercises, USA - The shooting in Newtown, CT is but part and parcel of a culture of shooting children, shooting civilians, shooting innocent adults, that has been waged by the U.S. government since September 12,...
How Can We Protect Our Kids in a Culture That Accepts Guns?
by Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, USA - What has happened to our culture that we even have this category — school shootings — by which to measure a horror that should otherwise be inconceivable, immeasurable and unfathomable?...
More Killings in Brazil Than in Some War-Torn Countries
by Fabiola Ortiz, IPS, Italy - Human rights activists in Brazil mobilised Wednesday to draw attention to the fact that half a million people have been murdered in this South American country in the past 10 years....
FARC Negotiator Makes Long Journey for Peace
by Teresa Bo, Al Jazeera, Qatar - "We can transform ourselves. We have repeated constantly that the seeing of a guerrilla group with their weapons entering a door and leaving with civilian clothes and with an empty bag is not...
Terror and Teargas on the Streets of Bahrain
by Jen Marlowe, Tomgram, USA - Ignoring the revolution underway in Bahrain and its demands for freedom and democracy is, however, perilous. If activists move from largely peaceful demonstrations toward the use of violence, Bahrain could prove the powder keg...
Embassies under Attack over Anti-Islam Video
by Rosalind Jordan, Al Jazeera, Qatar - Violent protests in Tunisia, Yemen, Sudan and elsewhere as crowds target US, UK and German embassies....
Public Security - the Greatest Casualty of the Drug War
by Laura Carlsen, America's Program, Mexico - Why does the U.S. government continue to send millions of tax dollars to fight the drug war, as they close down schools for lack of funds?...
Masculinity and Mass Violence
by Elizabeth Drescher, Religion Dispatches, USA - Given the centrality of men, masculinity, and masculinist ideologies in most world religions, it is surprising that the influence of such factors on religious and racial violence should be so difficult to engage....
Clashes Expose India's Communal Divide as Elections Loom
by Nita Bhalla, Altertnet, UK - The grisly scenes unfolding in the far-flung northeast may fan communal politics in a country where simmering tensions between Hindus and Muslims have often been exploited for electoral gain....
Gun Control? Dream On
by Katha Pollitt, The Nation, USA - Despite recent mass shootings in Colorado and Wisconsin, Americans' support for increased gun control remains depressingly low....
Honduran President Puts “Tigers” on the Streets
by Thelma Mejía, Inter Press Service, Italy - The Honduran government’s plan to create a new rapid response police force, as part of a strategy to militarise the fight against crime, is dangerously vague, experts say....
Mexico Drug War Displaces Families in Sinaloa Highlands
by Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times, USA - In Mexico, at least 1,500 Sinaloa families in the Sierra Madre highlands have fled fighting between the Zetas gang and the Sinaloa drug cartel in the last month....
Jeopardising Childhood Rights - More Needs To Be Done to Celebrate Our Children
by Deika Morrison, Jamaica Gleaner, Jamaica - It is now May, Child Month, and the National Child Month Committee has told us that we should celebrate children under the theme 'Jamaica 50: Celebrate Our Children'....
Women of Bosnia and Herzegovina: Twenty Years Later
by Violeta Krasnic, Foreign Policy in Focus, USA - “Women were not the makers of the war and were not at the negotiating table when the conflict stopped. But they were the first ones to cross imaginary and imposed borders...
Crisis at Schools Goes Unreported
by Victoria John, Mail & Guardian, South Africa - Corporal punishment is rife in Gauteng schools, even though it is unlawful, according to Childline. The children's rights body said more than 300 cases were reported to its Gauteng crisis line...
Responsible Gun Laws in Virginia? Yes, It Could Happen
by Janet D. Howell, Washington Post, USA - The gun lobby has lost some clout in Richmond because a powerful grass-roots movement, led by survivors of the horrific shootings at Virginia Tech in 2007, has organized into an effective opposition,...
US Hooked on Central American Drugs
by Lisa Fletcher, Al Jazeera, Qatar - As Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras combat drug gangs we ask if US addiction is serving to nourish the cocaine trade....
Trayvon Martin and American Exceptionalism
by Anthea Butler, Religion Dispatches, USA - Is a black person’s life worth anything in America? Not as long as America remains “Exceptional.”...
Inside a School for Suicide Bombers
by Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, TED, USA - Filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy takes on a terrifying question: How does the Taliban convince children to become suicide bombers? Propaganda footage from a training camp is intercut with her interviews of young camp graduates. A...
Italy Killings Underscore European Extremism Problem
by Annette Langer, Der Spiegel, Germany - The murders of African street vendors by a right-wing extremist writer in Florence have shocked Italy. Questions are now emerging about whether the gunman acted alone. But one thing seems certain, he was...
Racist Attack in Florence Markets
by Alessandra Bravi, Simone Innocenti e Federica Sanna, Corriere della Sera, Italy - “A cowardly attack, the result of ten years of hate, Fascism and racism from one political area”....
Elections in the Democratic Republic of Congo: Democracy on a Knife’s Edge
by Keri Leicher, Consultancy Africa Intelligence, South Africa - One of Africa’s largest and wealthiest nations in terms of natural resources, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), is currently gearing itself to host multi-party elections on 27 November 2011, only...
Mexico: Peace Caravan "Has Made Us Feel Stronger"
by Daniela Pastrana, IPS, Italy - With a huge hug, Olga Reyes from Chihuahua, who has lost six family members in Mexico's wave of drug-related violence, greets Araceli Rodríguez from Mexico state, the mother of a young federal police officer...
Mexico: Portrayals of a Culture-- of Violence?
by Juliana Rincón, Global Voices, Netherlands - Who else can step up to shoulder the responsibility of helping solve this violence problem? Do the media: mass and independent, have a part to play in this struggle?...
Free speech: The Global Balance
by Alison Bethel-McKenzie, Eurozine, Austria - Political repression of pro-democratic journalists throughout the Middle East and North Africa; serial murder of reporters caught up in Latin America's drug wars; constitutional attacks on the media in Europe: free speech faces adversaries...
Let Women Lead The Way to Peace in Africa
by Mariella Frostrup, The Observer, UK - Men with guns are littering Ivory Coast with corpses while my female companions in P.A's Ribhouse in downtown Monrovia outline inspired, achievable solutions to ending that conflict. In the same gentle voices that...
The Reyes Salazar Family and the Hidden Toll Behind Mexico's Execution-meter
by Kristin Bricker, Upside Down World, Canada - With an average of one person killed every hour in the drug war (and eight per day in Ciudad Juarez alone), newspapers don't even bother to report the dead's names, let alone...
Extremists Considered in Spokane Bomb Investigation
by Rachel Maddow, Rachel Maddow Show, USA - Where's the coverage, the outrage?...
Lax Gun Laws Prove Deadly in the U.S.
by Olivia Ward, Toronto Star, Canada - America has recoiled in horror over the shooting rampage in Arizona but throughout the country some 30,000 people die each year of gunshot wounds — about one-third of the 98,000 who are shot....
The Arab World Must Face its Demons
by Lamis Andoni, Al Jazeera, Qatar - Attacks on Christians are a wake-up call for fragmented Arab societies where disenfranchisement breeds bigotry....
Explaining Nigeria's Christmas Killings
by Jana Krause, openDemocracy, UK - The violence in Jos is symptomatic of a wider social malaise... the killings arise from competition over political power, rights and privileges, between the indigenous (predominantly Christian) and the ‘settler’ (predominantly Muslim) population....
Are Women More Aggressive These Days?
by Brittany Shoot, Ms. Magazine, USA - Women’s aggressive behavior is often staking claim to space and identity rather than creating conflict....
Violations a Constant Enemy for Women in War Zones
by Nurfika Osman, Jakarta Globe, Indonesia - Suraiya Kamairuzzaman was one of a group of ordinary women from around Indonesia who have acted extraordinarily in the face of sectarian and other conflicts, contributing significantly to peace-building efforts. “In times of...
A Weekend in Osh
by Madeleine Reeves, London Review of Books, UK - The origins of violence in Kyrgyzstan, a long and convoluted tale. The violence that broke out in southern Kyrgyzstan in the middle of June fragmented Osh, once a cosmopolitan city,...
The War for Drugs
by Sarah Hill, Boston Review, USA - How Juárez became the world’s deadliest city. In April 2007 Ciudad Juárez—the sprawling Mexican border city girding El Paso, Texas—won a Foreign Direct Investment magazine award for “North American large cities of...
The Ethnicisation of Violence in Southern Kyrgyzstan
by Madeleine Reeves, openDemocracy Russia, UK - Media talk of ‘ethnic conflict’ in Kyrgyzstan is misleading, in that it takes ethnicity to be causal. This does not describe the complex, messy process – political, economic, social and structural – whereby...
Operation Green Hunt’s Urban Avatar
by Arundhati Roy, Dawn, Pakistan - While the Indian Government considers deploying the army and air force to quell the rebellion in the countryside, strange things are happening in the cities....
Serial Killings Of Teenaged Boys In Kashmir
by Bismah Malik, Kashmir Times, Jammu & Kashmir - The killing of Tufail Ahmad, a teenaged boy in police action at Gani Memorial Stadium is yet another indicator of the unabated killings of teenaged boys, continuing despite assurance of zero...
Uzbekistan Opens Border to Refugees Fleeing Kyrgyzstan
by Catherine A. Fitzpatrick, Choihona, Uzbekistan - The death toll in the Kyrgyz-Uzbek ethnic conflict in southern Kyrgyzstan, now in its fourth day, has reached 113, with 1,292 wounded (742 hospitalized and 550 treated) in both Osh and Jalal-Abad regions,...
Inside a Congo Village Under Siege
by Rosie DiManno, The Star, Canada - The shooting and hollering began around 3 a.m., rousting villagers from their pallets. It was a cacophony they knew well. Burungu, 80 kilometres west of Goma, had been sacked by rebel militias...
A Few Lessons from Colombia for Mexico
by Elyssa Pachico, Colombia Reports, Colombia - Last week’s disappearance of former Mexican presidential candidate, Diego Fernandez de Cevallos, has jolted the country’s social elites, who previously may have thought they were immune from the drug war that’s claimed...
End Israeli Impunity Now
by Cynthia McKinney, Counter Currents, India - I mourn with my fellow Free Gaza travelers, the lives that have been lost by Israel's needless, senseless act against unarmed humanitarian activists....
A Murderous Mindset
by Huma Yusuf, Dawn, Pakistan - Attacks of escalating horror and violence, growing in their scope, against the Ahmadi community are the most terrible articulations of a widespread social sentiment — that members of this community are, because of their...
Shooting Hope
by Toni Oyry, Al Jazeera, Qatar - There are 12 Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon, but an invisible wall of prejudice often separates those who live inside the camps and the Lebanese communities that exist just beyond the army-guarded entry...
Kenyans Doubt Promise of Justice
by Bertha Kang'ong'oi, Al Jazeera, Qatar - Weeks of violence left more than 1,133 people dead, forced 400,000 to flee their homes and brought Kenya to the brink of civil war....
Somalia's Saviors Are Making Everything Worse
by Letta Tayler, Foreign Policy, USA - The U.S. and the U.N. are doing everything but keeping the peace in Mogadishu....
Lost in Gaza: The Hidden Women
by Anat Shalev, YNet, Israel - About 77% of 760,000 women living in Strip suffer from some type of violence; some 90% of them are unemployed. Between economic emergency and strict Islamic rule, their voice is hardly heard....
Back to Bloody Square-One in Darfur
by Julie Flint, Daily Star, Lebanon - 2002 is being rerun in 2010 – despite Save Darfur, despite UNAMID, and despite the ICC. SLA-controlled Jebel Marra is once again under attack, threatened, according to UNAMID sources, by an estimated 35,000...
Rape Victims Awaiting Justice
by Caroline Wafula, Daily Nation, Kenya - More than two years after the post-election chaos, many women who suffered sexual violence and abuse are still waiting for justice....
Gender, War and Conflict Transformation
by Diana Francis, Open Democracy, UK - Gender lies at war’s heart and the conduct and impact of war are equally gendered....
Murder Capital of the World
by Laura Carlsen, Foreign Policy in Focus, USA - Ciudad Juarez now holds the world record in homicides per capita. This border city of two million is the frontline of one of the most violent and most ill-conceived war of...
When the Media Is the Disaster
by Rebecca Solnit, Tom Dispatch, USA - Soon after almost every disaster the crimes begin: ruthless, selfish, indifferent to human suffering, and generating far more suffering....
Drought and Conflict in South Sudan
by Helen Mould, Al Jazeera, Qatar - There are currently in excess of 350,000 people who have been displaced by inter-ethnic conflict in south Sudan, largely due to growing tensions over scarce resources such as water, as well as an...
Sudan's New Year of Fear
by Ros Wynne-Jones, Guardian, UK - The peace deal that ended what was Africa's longest-running conflict is on the brink of collapse....
Lynching and Mob Violence in Guatemala: Why?
by Barbara Schieber, Guatemala News, Guatemala - The law abiding citizens who collaborate with the justice system to apprehend criminals become victims of these criminals when they are released. In desperation people start to take justice into their own hands....
The Evil in Congo
by Mary Lou Hartman, Washington Post, USA - Despite international attention, including visits from Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and U.N. officials, and a recent "60 Minutes" report, Congo remains the most dangerous place on Earth for girls and...
Dec. 6 and the Violence Pandemic
by Elsie Hambrook, Telegraph Journal, Canada - What would happen if we looked at sexual violence against women as a pandemic in the same way we do H1N1 flu: states of emergency declared, accurate and up-to-date statistics kept, massive public...
My Cry from the Islands of Blood
by Malayapinas, World Pulse, USA - Under the Arroyo government, violence has worsened as more military forces have become involved in the lawlessness and culture of impunity that reigns all over the island....
'Civilisation' and the Myth of 'African Savagery'
by Wendy C. Hamblet, Pambazuka News, South Africa - Following a five and a half year scholarly meditation to tackle explicitly the prejudices ‘still deeply embedded’ in the Western academy, Wendy C. Hamblet challenges the ‘popular assumption that violence is...
NGOs in War Zones Adapt to Increased Violence
by Anna Husarska, McClathy DC, USA - One life is not more important nor more valuable than another, but when foreigners - who do not "blend in" -are targeted, they do have a place to go back to; a "return...
Politics: NGOs Hold Arms Exporters to Account for Abuses
by Suzanne Hoeksema, IPS, Italy - With 2,000 people dying daily in armed violence fuelled by irresponsible arms transfers, talks to create an international treaty regulating these weapons can no longer be delayed....
Amid the Bloodbath, Harrowing Tales of Rape
by Tatiana Mossot, France 24, France - Around 30 women have alleged they were brutally raped by soldiers during the September 28 massacre in Guinea that the UN says left at least 150 dead. FRANCE 24's Tatiana Mossot heard some...
Yemen: The Land with more Guns than People
by Jane Merrick and Kim Sengupta, The Independent, UK - At least 150,000 people are displaced in Yemen by fighting between Shia rebels and Sunni government forces....
Dewever-Plana Uncovers Guatemala's Other War
by Sarah Leduc, France 24, France - French photographer Miquel Dewever-Plana has devoted more than ten years to uncovering the violence that continues to plague Guatemala. He presents 'The other war', an exhibition on the "maras", the gangs of Guatemala...
SOUTH AFRICA: Law Failing Lesbians on "Corrective Rape"
by Nathalie Rosa Bucher, IPS, Italy - "Women are getting killed in the Western Cape," says Ndumie Funda, who runs LulekiSizwe in her "cabin" in the township of Gugulethu near Cape Town....
An Underground Railroad for Iraqi Women
by Laura Flanders, Grit TV, USA - While President Obama's declared an end date for Americans in the Iraq war, will it ever be that simple for Iraqis? We talk to Yanar Mohammed, President of the Organization of Women's Freedom...
George Sodini and the Culture of Misogyny
by Jessica Vozel, North Star Writers Group, USA - Women are objects, men are subjects. When the objects don’t behave, they are punished....
Rapes, Robberies and Attacks Rife as Zimbabwe Enters a Violent New Era
by Jane Fields, Scotsman, Scotland - The number of armed robberies and assaults has surged since a unity government between president Robert Mugabe's ZANU-PF and the former opposition Movement for Democratic Change was formed in February....
Sierra Leone: Wave of Violence or Wake-Up Call?
by Lisa Denney, Pambazuka News, Kenya - Recent rioting and violence in Freetown and the east of Sierra Leone has brought into focus the fragility of the post-conflict peace, held in place since 2002....
The White Supremacist in Us
by Rinku Sen, Huffington Post, USA - There's been lots of discussion about why hate crimes are rising and how to prevent future tragedies, yet we've largely missed the relationship between extremist racism and the less obvious version that plays...
Tackling Gender Violence in Cuba
by Patricia Grogg, Havana Times, Cuba - The Cuban Constitution and numerous laws assure women’s equality and the protection of the family, but the abuse that occurs in the intimacy of the home doesn’t always escape the fear and prejudice,...
Women Suffer 'Hidden Genocide' in Latin America
by Natalia Ruiz Díaz, IPS, Italy - Counting cases of machista or sexist violence separately shows that "what is happening is practically a genocide, and a hidden one at that," says Susana Chiarotti, coordinator of the Committee of Experts on...
SA Political Parties Sidestep Violence Against Women Issues
by Lisa Vetten and Sally Shackleton, Pambazuka, Kenya - Despite studies which suggest that as many as one in two women in some parts of South Africa are affected by domestic violence, political parties in South Africa lack concrete, practical...
Shootings Are Insane, but so Is Response
by Cynthia Tucker, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, USA - These mass shootings are a form of madness, but what’s even more insane is our passive reaction. We shrug our shoulders, then turn the conversation to Octomom Nadya Suleman or North Carolina’s triumph...
Violence against Woman in Nepal
by Rukmanee Maharjan, Telegraph Nepal, Nepal - Violence prevents women from accessing or experiencing the benefits of development by restricting their ability to move or act freely. In Nepal, there is a culture of silence as far as violence against...
Benin: Support for Women Facing Violence
by Esther Tola, IPS, Italy - Judges and gynaecologists in Benin have undergone training on the interpretation of forensic evidence in cases of violence against women, as well as in investigative procedures when dealing with rape cases....
Safe Cities for Women
by Andrea Domínguez, Comunidade Segura, Brazil - Show me a woman who does not balk at crossing a dark empty park at night for fear of being attacked. According to the leaders of the Safe Cities Free of Violence Against...
Northern Ireland, Part One: The dissidents
by Suzanne Breen, Sunday Herald, Scotland - Despite Northern Ireland's overwhelming rejection of the dissidents, it's disingenuous to dismiss them as lunatics or common criminals with rifles. Whether we like it or not, they are politically motivated....
Combating Sexual and Gender-Based Violence
by Kristen Cordell, openDemocracy, UK - There is an opportunity for the US to have an impact in the international community, specifically in peacekeeping, where it is now all but absent. And it’s down to the women....
Turning Pain to Power
by Marianne Schnall, The Women's Media Center, USA - Women and girls in eastern Congo suffer sexual atrocities that are tactics of war in the region. Playwright Eve Ensler has joined with Dr. Denis Mukwege to ask us to imagine...
Embracing the Periphery
by Rupa Chinai, Himal Southasian, Nepal - As writers and thinkers I feel we need a more thoughtful response to the crisis our society now faces. Listening to the current discussions on our TV channels, I fear we will lose...
The High Cost of Violence in Central America
by Andrea Domínguez, Comunidad Segura, Brazil - Violence in Central America cost approximately $6.5 billion in 2006 - equivalent to 7.7% of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) - according to the results obtained by a study called "The economic costs...
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