Sight-Seeing: Poverty, potatoes and peace – timely lessons from Ireland’s turbulent history?
HEATHER KEITH, a writer with Baptist World Aid Australia, looks at what experience has taught her about praying and hoping for peace in our conflicted world…
Essay: Good Friday Agreement – the early 1990s back-channel between the IRA and British Government that made peace possible
In an article published on The Conversation, NIALL Ó DOCHARTAIGH, professor of political science at the University of Galway, looks at the role a back-channel of communication played in the peace process…
Northern Ireland victims’ families feel justice further away then ever
Belfast, Northern Ireland Reuters The Good Friday Agreement largely ended three decades of bloodshed in Northern Ireland, but for many relatives of the more than 3,600 people killed the peace accord has offered little closure over the past 25 years. In a short section, the deal said it was essential to address the suffering of […]
‘Bloody Sunday’ still scars Northern Ireland 50 years on
Londonderry, Northern Ireland Reuters Five decades after British soldiers killed 13 unarmed Catholic civil rights marchers on one of the defining days of the Northern Ireland conflict, relatives are still searching for the justice they believe is needed for a scarred society to heal. Family and friends of the 13 Catholics who died in Londonderry […]
Activists warn over slavery as Mauritania joins UN human rights council
Dakar, Senegal Thomson Reuters Foundation Mauritania is backsliding in efforts to eliminate descent-based slavery, an activist and opposition member has warned, as the West African country joined the UN Human Rights Council for the first time this week. Biram Dah Abeid called on other UN members to pressure Mauritania, the last country in the world […]
Iran to probe black boxes after missile blamed for plane crash
Dubai, UAE Reuters Tehran said on Friday it wanted to download black box recordings itself from a Ukrainian airliner crash that killed all 176 people aboard, amid Western suspicions the plane was brought down by an Iranian missile, probably by mistake. The crash has heightened international pressure on Iran after months of friction with the […]