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...government blames rebels for the flaring hostilities. Under a cease-fire brokered last December by the Geneva-based Henry Dunant Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue, GAM agreed to abandon its 26-year armed struggle and accept autonomy as a starting point for negotiations. But GAM's leaders - possibly emboldened by East Timor's successful breakaway from Jakarta in 1999 - continue to vow that Aceh will one day be a sovereign entity. What's more, they have yet to begin disarming...
...similar claim on behalf of four South African families. Thandi Shezi, a Khulumani project officer, says compensation should run into billions of dollars. The companies call the suits "baseless" and will fight to dismiss them. "You can't hold international investors responsible for the actions of governments," says Monika Dunant, a spokeswoman for Zurich-based bank UBS Group, named in both suits. But South African activists point to successful cases against Swiss banks that held onto money deposited by Holocaust victims, and companies in Nazi Germany that benefitted from forced labor. "If they want to play the international game," says...
...zone of quiet around the posh Henry-Dunant hospital in Paris was fractured by a political thunderclap last week with the arrival of George Habash, leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. His organization has carried out airliner hijackings and bloody terrorist attacks in France, Israel and elsewhere since the late 1960s, including the 1976 hijacking of an Air France plane to Uganda that was liberated by Israeli troops. Yet Habash, 65, was routinely admitted to the country and the hospital for treatment of a stroke he suffered in Tunis...
...city's role in modern diplomacy began with the Battle of Solferino in Italy in 1859. A Genevan traveler, Henri Dunant, was so appalled by the spectacle of the wounded French and Austrian soldiers left to die on the battlefield that he wrote an indignant book titled Un Souvenir de Solferino. From that book came the Geneva Convention of 1864, in which 16 nations agreed for the first time on humane treatment for the wounded. From Dunant's protest also came the creation of the International Red Cross...
...Nobel, who specified that the recipient be "the person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity among nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses." The first winners were Switzerland's Jean Henri Dunant, founder of the International Red Cross and originator of the Gene va Convention, and France's Frederic Passy, a noted pacifist who convened the first International Peace Congress in Paris in 1889. The first female recipient (in 1905) was Austrian Baroness Bertha von Suttner, a longtime confidante of Nobel...