· December, 2006

Stories about Humanitarian Response from December, 2006

Poland: Free Internet

Information Policy blog reports that the Polish government will be offering free internet service “to disadvantaged members of society in a bid to ensure that all citizens can have equal...

27 December 2006

Nepal: Going home

United We Blog! on the return of Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) in Nepal. “However, most of the IDPs were disappointed over the government’s indifference. Following the beginning of the peace...

22 December 2006

Nepal: The refugees from Bhutan

Democracy For Nepal on the 100,000 refugees from Bhutan. “The same chauvinistic thinking among the Nepali elite that has kept some five million Madhesis deprived of citizenship papers for decades...

21 December 2006

Cambodia: Land Evictions

Mongkol links to videos of land eviction in Cambodia and says “It pains me to see how bad our poor people have suffered and how serious social inequality is getting”....

14 December 2006

China: more on dog crack down

Beijing city government recently invited Chinese and foreign journalists to visit the dog impounding facilities which is set up for all the unlicensed dogs they've caught in their recent campaign....

13 December 2006

China: chinese police

Lyn Jeffery at Virtual China blogs about a special section in a citizen journalist website, Molive/Moobol(zh), which collects both positive and negative on-the-scene photos of policemen

11 December 2006

China: I have no legs

A lump of coal would actually come in handy for the cold souls in Petitioner Village this winter, judging from the stories told in The China Next Door, a photo...

10 December 2006

Taiwan: death penalty

Michael Turton blogs about Anmesty International's campaign to eliminate the death penalty in Taiwan with more background information.

8 December 2006