News and Views: Armed Conflict
- Desperate Iraqi Refugees Turn to Sex Trade in Syria (Katherine Zoep, The New York Times)
- Women Under Attack: The Talibanization of Iraq (Bay Fang, AlterNet)
- Scorched: Darfur, the first climate change war? (Julian Borger, The Guardian )
- The Hidden Face of the War (Gustavo Capdevila, Inter Press Service)
- Sudan Flying Arms to Darfur, Panel Reports (Warren Hoge, The New York Times)
- Iraqi Women's Freedom Vanishing: Read All About It (Sheila Gibbons, Women's eNews)
- Iraq Refugee Crisis Engulfs Women Silenced by Rape (Rasha Elass, Women's eNews)
- Salvador Option Surfaces Again (Elizabeth DiNovella, The Progressive)
- The Iraqi Refugee Crisis (Kristele Younes, Foreign Policy In Focus)
- Fresh round of attacks on civilians hits South Darfur (UN News)
- UN outraged by deadly attack on girls' school in Baghdad (UN News)
- Iraqi Health Care: Hostage to War (Terry J. Allen, In These Times)
- Iraqi Women's Bodies Are Battlefields for War Vendettas (Kavita N. Ramdas, AlterNet)
- SUDAN: Government 'accepts' UN troops in Darfur (IRIN News)
- War Climates (Jeffrey Sachs, TomPaine.com)
- Government Death Squads Ravaging Baghdad (Ali Al-Fadhily and Dahr Jamail, Inter Press Service)
- 654,000 Deaths Tied to Iraq War (Jonathan Bor, Baltimore Sun)
- Hidden victims of a brutal conflict: Iraq's women (Peter Beaumont, The Observer)
- GUATEMALA: Exhuming the Past In a Painful Quest (N.C. Aizenman, Washington Post)
- Cluster Bombs Imperil Southern Lebanon (Lin Noueihed, Boston Globe)
- SUDAN/US: Activists Glum Despite Approval of Sanctions (Jim Lobe, Inter Press Service)
- Turning Back the Clock on Rape (New York Times Editorial)
- Darfur Crisis Set to Worsen? (Jim Lobe, Inter Press Service)
- More than 200,000 Sri Lankans now displaced by fighting (UN News)
- Israel Responsible for Qana Attack (Human Rights Watch)
- U.S. Speeds Up Bomb Delivery for the Israelis (David S. Cloud and Helene Cooper, The New York Times)
- Cut Off and Under Siege in South Lebanon: ..."This time it's almost all women and children" (Time.com, Nicholas Blanford/Tyre)
- Iraqi Death Toll Rises Above 100 Per Day, U.N. Says (Kirk Semple, The New York Times)
- Rape in war 'a growing problem' (BBC News)
- Women in Darfur Look to ICC (Christine Butegwa, Institute for War and Peace Reporting)
- Khartoum Accused of Exporting Darfur Violence to Chad (Jim Lobe, Inter Press Service)
- SUDAN: Thousands displaced by recent attacks in South Darfur (UN Integrated Regional Information Networks)
- SRI LANKA: Growing Violence Eclipses Tsunami Anniversary (Amantha Perera, Inter Press Service)
- PERU: Veteran Soldiers, Police Recruited for Iraq by U.S. Contractors (Ángel Páez, Inter Press Service)
- Security Council urges protecting women in war, empowering them as peacemakers (UN News)
- US forces 'out of control', says Reuters chief (Julia Day, Guardian Unlimited)
- Colombia Unearthing Plight of Its 'Disappeared' (Juan Forero, New York Times)
- Rape, sexual violence continue in Sudan’s Darfur region, UN reports (UN News)
- Landmark civil society forum on conflict prevention wraps up at UN (UN News)
- In Iraq, giving birth is complicated by war (Annia Ciezadlo, The Christian Science Monitor)
- Armed conflicts leading cause of world hunger emergencies (Food and Agriculture Organization, United Nations)
- Massacre in Colombian Peace Community (School of the Americas Watch)
- Reports of Displaced Youth Abused and Exploited in Colombia's Cities Concern UN (UN News)
- Getting the Purple Finger (Naomi Klein, The Nation)