New Threats to Global Security but Long-Term Trends Encouraging: Report
02 December 2010
Human Security Report 2009/2010: The Causes of Peace and The Shrinking Costs of War, , 2 December 2010
EXCERPT: "The new Human Security Report (Report) from the Human Security Research Project at argues that long-term trends are reducing the risks of both international and civil wars. [] The most recent data indicate that over 25 percent (nine out of 34) conflicts that started or restarted...
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US Soldier Sentenced for Shooting at Civilians; Will Testify against Others
02 December 2010
, AFP, 2 December 2010
EXCERPT: "A US soldier was sentenced to nine months in prison after pleading guilty to shooting at Afghan civilians. Staff Sergeant Robert Stevens, 25, also was demoted to the rank of private but was spared discharge from the military under the sentence handed down in the first court martial linked to a rogue army unit alleged to have killed Afghans for sport....
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Despite Serving out Sentence, Women Remain Prisoners
02 December 2010
AFGHANISTAN: Women Remain Prisoners, IRIN News, 2 December 2010
EXCERPT: "Zarghoona has completed her three-month sentence at a prison in Kandahar Province, southern Afghanistan, but she is not allowed home because no male relative has shown up to guarantee that she will not run away from home again. [...] Forced to marry an old, and mentally unstable man when she was 15, Zarghoona suffered sexual violence and regular beatings until...
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Humanitarian Situation in Afghanistan Worsening: Red Cross
02 December 2010
ICRC Sees Afghan Humanitarian Situation Worsening, Reuters, 2 December 2010
EXCERPT: "The dire humanitarian situation in Afghanistan is likely to deteriorate further in 2011 unless the Kabul government and Taliban insurgents reach a political settlement, the Red Cross warned on Thursday. Intensified fighting has led to rising civilian casualties and kept millions of Afghans in rural areas from reaching basic health care this year, it...
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British Aid Worker Was Killed by US Grenade: Inquiry
02 December 2010
Aid Worker Linda Norgrove Was Killed by US Grenade, BBC News, 2 December 2010
EXCERPT: "Aid worker Linda Norgrove was killed by a grenade thrown by a US special forces soldier sent to rescue her, a joint US-UK investigation has found. Ms Norgrove, 36, from Lewis, Scotland, was taken hostage in Afghanistan in September. She died on 8 October. It had been thought she was killed by her captors. Foreign Secretary William Hague said...
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