The GlobalIssues.org site is a unique site that provides insights into global issues that may be misrepresented but are all closely related. Topics include human rights, trade and environment related issues.

This part of the globalissues.org web site looks at some of the conflicts ocurring in Africa. There is hardly any media coverage and yet there have been millions of refugees and hundreds of thousands of people have been killed. If the media attention was as much as Kosovo, where 2000 ethnic Albianians had been killed before international reaction reached its heights, then maybe international ...

This part of the globalissues.org web site looks into the Kosovo Crisis and how both sides, have committed horrendous violations of international law etc. While the Serb regime gets justified and needed criticism, mainstream media has not criticized the NATO practices, many of which could be considered crimes against humanity, themselves.

The Indonesian legislature finally ratified the East Timorese vote, 20 October, 1999, allowing East Timor to officially be an independent nation. However, as the East Timor Action Network are quick to point out, that is half the step. There is still a long way to go; the return of refugees, end to militia activity and prosecution of rights violators should be high priorities.

The crisis in Chechnya has seen numerous human rights violations. It draws parallel to many other conflicts around the world.

Human Rights Watch. Regularly updated series of Human Rights Watch bulletins, press backgrounders and reports.

Sri Lanka: the price of reconcilliation.

There is a right and wrong way to deal with an abusive madman.

Site dedicated to the discussion of the Israeli/Arab conflicts and their resolution. All opinions and viewpoints are welcome.

Tsentora-Yurt, Russia, Aug. 23 -- The Russian-appointed leader of Chechnya gestured toward the crowd that had gathered to wish him a happy 49th birthday at his heavily guarded home in this Chechen town. Some, he noted dryly, could well be rebel agents.

Gaza, Aug. 24 -- As Israel and the Palestinians circle each other in a wary and increasingly fractious quest for a final peace agreement, the spotlight only rarely settles these days on a small, wizened, straggly bearded man in a wheelchair whose antagonism to Israel could one day unsettle or even destroy any deal that establishes a Palestinian state pledged to coexistence with Israel.

Jerusalem, Aug. 27 -- "Friendly fire" may have been responsible for killing three Israeli soldiers in a bungled West Bank antiterror operation on Saturday, Israeli officials acknowledged today. But they defended the late-night attack on the hideout of a man accused of terrorism who heads Israel's most-wanted list.