Papuan Women Stand Up Against Violence and Injustice
Three stories of courageous women fighting cruelty and repression in Papua.
Articles by Carole Reckinger
Tibet: Unrest in the ‘Roof of the World’
On March 10th, a group of about 500 Buddhist monks marched from the Drepung monastery to demand the release of monks arrested last October for celebrating the award of a US congressional Gold Medal to the Dalai Lama. Between fifty and sixty monks were arrested as police and paramilitary units blocked roads and surrounded other monasteries in the Lhasa area to prevent protests from growing. Despite the heavy crackdown, over the next days the protests rapidly spread and unrest has been reported throughout Tibet and in provinces close to Tibet with large ethnic Tibetan populations. Tanks in Lhasa