Preti Taneja
Preti Taneja is a freelance journalist and commissioning editor at Minority Rights Group International, a non-governmental organisation that works to promote the rights of minoritites and idigenous people worldwide. She is the author of the report "Assimilation, exodus eradication: Iraq's minority communities since 2003".
Displaced Iraqis shouldn't be made to return
Author: Preti Taneja
"Iraqi refugees are burdens here," a Jordanian government spokesman tells me in a stuffy Interior Ministry office. Patience in the country that has taken in up to 500,000 Iraqis is running short as schools and health systems take the strain. And so, the Jordanian government has announced it will no longer issue or extend residency permits to Iraqis living in the kingdom. The government estimates 80 percent of Iraqis do not have the right papers to allow them to stay, according to the U.N. news service IRIN. ...
Author: Preti Taneja
"Iraqi refugees are burdens here," a Jordanian government spokesman tells me in a stuffy Interior Ministry office. Patience in the country that has taken in up to 500,000 Iraqis is running short as schools and health systems take the strain. And so, the Jordanian government has announced it will no longer issue or extend residency permits to Iraqis living in the kingdom. The government estimates 80 percent of Iraqis do not have the right papers to allow them to stay, according to the U.N. news service IRIN. ...
Are we ignoring Africa's floods?
Author: Preti Taneja
The devastating floods that are sweeping east, central and west Africa have been met with a curious silence in the British media.
Scanning the broadsheets this week, there's been plenty of coverage for Prime Minister Gordon Brown's escalating spat with Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe. But the small matter of swathes of a continent under water has gone largely unnoticed.
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Author: Preti Taneja
The devastating floods that are sweeping east, central and west Africa have been met with a curious silence in the British media.
Scanning the broadsheets this week, there's been plenty of coverage for Prime Minister Gordon Brown's escalating spat with Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe. But the small matter of swathes of a continent under water has gone largely unnoticed.
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Time to get serious on minority rights in conflicts
Author: Preti Taneja
A disregard for minority rights lies at the heart of terrible wars in Darfur, Kosovo, Sri Lanka and countless other places. But attention to these rights, which include the right to identify yourself on ethnic or religious grounds or to worship as you choose, have been sidelined in international conflict prevention.
It is clear that too many conflicts with minorities at their centre are not being understood as such. The result? The warning cries of minority rights violations go unheard. Conflicts that could have been prevented flare up. History repeats itself.
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Author: Preti Taneja
A disregard for minority rights lies at the heart of terrible wars in Darfur, Kosovo, Sri Lanka and countless other places. But attention to these rights, which include the right to identify yourself on ethnic or religious grounds or to worship as you choose, have been sidelined in international conflict prevention.
It is clear that too many conflicts with minorities at their centre are not being understood as such. The result? The warning cries of minority rights violations go unheard. Conflicts that could have been prevented flare up. History repeats itself.
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