December 6, 2015 for Hurriyet Daily News   The European Union will mark this year’s Human Rights Day with movies addressing individual rights, human dignity and the experiences of a varied group of people, bringing 33 documentaries to audiences in Ankara between Dec 7 and 20 and in Istanbul between Dec. 9 and 18. [...]

December 4, 2015 for World Bulletin US secretary of state held separate talks with Turkish Cypriot president and Greek Cypriot leader World Bulletin / News Desk U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said Thursday that an end to the division of Cyprus was "within reach", after he visited both sides of the [...]

November 30, 2015, published in Aljazeera Roch Marc Christian Kabore waves to supporters at party headquarters in Ouagadougou on December 1, 2015 after winning Burkina Faso's presidential election (AFP Photo/Issouf Sanogo) Roch Marc Christian Kabore, a former PM and head of the National Assembly, is the first elected [...]

By Mary Harper, November 23, 2015, published in BBC News "We decided to open the railway early because of the drought, the worst in decades," says Getachew Betru, chief executive of the Ethiopian Railways Corporation (ERC). It is a Saturday, but this thoughtful, intelligent man is busy working. Except for [...]

By Fionna Beckett, November 23, 2015, published in the Guardian The International Peace Cafe is a place ‘for everyone to come and talk, to meet people from different backgrounds and hear their stories’. Photograph: Jon Craig I’m sitting looking at a colourful plate of food cooked by a [...]

By Tom Hastings, November 21, 2015, published in PeaceVoice.  Even some of my favorite doves are advocating a mixed military response to ISIS. I can’t agree. The history of our violent response to terrorism began as a trickle, then a stream, then a torrent into Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia, Yemen, Pakistan, and Syria. [...]