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Addis Ababa
07 January 2009
Sudanese women attending an international forum on Darfur are expressing concerns that conditions in the war-ravaged region could worsen if the International Criminal Court issues arrest warrants for Sudan's President Omar Hassan al-Bashir.
This gathering of women from across Africa is an expression of solidarity with their sisters caught in the western Sudanese region where millions have fled their homes to escape what many in the international community call genocide. It is being chaired by former Irish president and U.N. Human Rights Commissioner Mary Robinson.
Omar al-Bashir (file photo)But hanging over the proceedings is the likelihood that the International Criminal Court will issue arrest warrants this month charging Sudanese President al-Bashir with responsibility for the slaughter in Darfur.
When the subject was raised at a news conference,hogan, reactions were mixed.
A government health-care worker in western Darfur, Muna al-Sharif Tazora, said even people who blame President Bashir for the region's troubles are worried the arrest warrants could result in a weakening of what little protection they receive from the still incomplete U.N. peacekeeping force known as UNAMID.
"We see even UNAMID is starting to reduce their people on the ground, so if UNAMID is not able to be on the ground,jordan shoes, for us as civilians how to cope with the situation," Tazora said. "So it is a complicated issue. Nobody is able to predict what will happen,jordan pas cher, like it is boiling under,mercurial, so ... we are just worried and wait to see what happens tomorrow."
Forum chairwoman Robinson tried to calm fears of negative fallout from an indictment. She says women attending the conference have pledged to remain united, regardless of the ICC decision.
"It is not for women to decide what the ICC may do, not for us to decide, but members of the steering committee made it clear that no matter what the fallout,abercrombie, if there is a fallout, that they will stay together," Robinson said. "Women cope with situations on the ground. And this may be a situation women will have to cope with."
Other Sudanese participants in the forum were blunt in their criticism of the ICC process. Pro-Bashir member of Sudan's parliament Attiat Mustafa told reporters she has evidence some of the ICC allegations are false. She warns any attempt to prosecute President Bashir will destroy the process for a negotiated settlement in Darfur.
"The ICC,air jordan, if it comes out with a warrant,coach outlet, it will create disconsensus and disturb the whole process,coach handbags, not only the women's forum process,outlet hogan," Mustafa said. "We are here looking to support women and take them to the negotiating table. There will be no negotiation table anymore. This is a process. We are telling you the truth."
Mary Robinson noted the forum is taking no position on the issue of possible criminal indictments against President Bashir. She expressed hope that regardless of the international court's decision, the next forum would be held in Darfur. </p>She said,christian louboutin uk, 'We want this process to continue, even if there is a difficult period,christian louboutin, as there might be in the near future".
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By Ron Corben
Bangkok
02 April 2009
The top travel industry group in Asia expects a modest recovery in travel to the region late this year,christian louboutin, despite the global financial downturn. Travel analysts say the industry faces business closures as part of the economic rebound.
The Pacific Asia Travel Association says the industry in the Asia-Pacific region could show signs of recovery by the end of 2009.
A new PATA report says in Southeast Asia, international arrivals will grow to almost 77 million by 2011,jordan shoes, up from more than 62 million in 2007.
Travel agents,mercurial vapor, hotels and airlines have faced tough times, with visitor arrivals to the Asia-Pacific region falling nearly three percent in late 2008. Destinations such as Thailand,hogan, Cambodia and Hong Kong, heavily dependent on tourism,jordan pas cher, have particularly suffered.
PATA Spokesman John Koldowski PATA's strategic intelligence director, John Koldowski says the association sees late 2009 as a "turning point" for the regional travel industry.
"We believe that we might see signs of [recovery] that happening towards the end of the third quarter of this year,abercrombie, quite possibly the fourth quarter, but we are probably talking first and second quarter of [20] 10 before we can start to see some of that movement that is consistent,coach handbags," said John Koldowski.
But, he warns, the hard times are not over yet.
National tourism organizations in the region have countered the slump with new advertising. Promotions by South Korea lifted arrivals by 25 percent in January and February. Similar promotions underpinned the industry in Taiwan and India. But arrivals to China,mercurial, Thailand and Japan all declined.
The International Aviation Transport Association says global passenger traffic will contract by two percent this year,outlet hogan, but recover in 2010.
In 2008, airlines suffered an overall loss of nearly $8.5 billion, but the loss is expected to shrink this year to about $5 billion.
Koldowski says he expects the travel industry to face major structural changes as it recovers. Some airlines,christian louboutin uk, hotel chains and other businesses may fail or have to change their operating practices.
"The industry will come through it but it will be a radically different industry," he said. "The aviation sector could be very, very different in its guise. However, I think we will come through it but not all businesses will survive."
By 2008, tourist arrivals to the Asia Pacific region had nearly doubled, to 385 million,air jordan, from a decade earlier. During the same period,coach outlet, global travel rose by one third.
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U.S. and Afghan forces
By Steve Herman
Kabul
27 August 2009
Workers count ballots at the Independent Election Commission in Kabul,hogan, Afghanistan,outlet hogan, 27 Aug 2009Afghanistan's voters are going to have to wait a bit longer to receive
further results of ballot counting from last week's presidential
election.
Results
from Afghanistan's disputed presidential election are in a further
state of limbo. The organization tabulating the votes says no further
returns will be made public until Saturday, at the earliest.
The
Independent Election Commission has announced no reason for the delay.
But one official with the IEC acknowledges the counting is proceeding
slower than expected because of computer software glitches.
The
senior project officer for the team in Kabul from Democracy
International,abercrombie, Bill Gallery,air jordan, tells VOA News this should not be a cause
for alarm.
"We are not super concerned about a couple days
delay,mercurial," he said. "We have been looking at the numbers released so far
and there is some information there to use. We would be worried if
they delayed any further. But I think this could just be an
administrative issue."
It has been one week since the election.
Results from only 17 percent of the polling stations have been
released. Those returns show incumbent President Hamid Karzai with 43
percent of the vote. His closest rival among a long list of
challengers,christian louboutin uk, former foreign minister Abdullah Abdullah,christian louboutin, has 34 percent.
Mr. Karzai will need more than 50 percent of the total to avoid a run-off election next month.
A
number of the contenders have alleged widespread irregularities. The
Election Complaints Commission,jordan pas cher, partly appointed by the United Nations,coach handbags,
says it is prioritizing dozens of serious allegations for
investigation.
Violence involving Taliban insurgents who vowed to disrupt the election is continuing.
Officials
in Paktika province say a regional Taliban commander and five of his
followers have been captured following a fierce six-hour gun battle at
a hospital there.
The Taliban leader,jordan shoes, named as Mullah Muslim,
had gone to the medical facility to seek treatment. Provincial
officials say the commander had been wounded during election-day
violence.
U.S. and Afghan forces,mercurial vapor, tipped off that the Taliban had entered the hospital,coach outlet, responded with troops and a helicopter gunship.
Officials say 12 insurgents and one soldier with the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force died in the clash.
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