Durban- South Africa (PANA) -- Personal stories of Apartheid brutality, injustice and the complex issues of truth and reconciliation are being staged on the sidelines of the World Conference against Racism holding in Durban. Full text...

Durban- South Africa (PANA) -- A 15-year-old South African school girl fought back tears on Monday as she described the humiliation she endured when she was wrongfully accused of shoplifting and painted white last year. Full text...

Durban- South Africa (PANA) -- A number of Jewish non- governmental organisations have announced their withdrawal from the World Conference Against Racism on Tuesday, hours after the official Israeli delegation withdrew in solidarity with the US. Full text...

Durban- South Africa (PANA) -- Personal stories of Apartheid brutality, injustice and the complex issues of truth and reconciliation are being staged alongside debates and presentations at the ongoing World Conference against Racism in Durban. Full text...

Durban- South Africa (PANA) -- The general debate of the World Conference against Racism continued Tuesday without the US and Israeli delegations which withdrew late Monday. Full text...

Durban- South Africa (PANA) -- UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Mary Robinson says despite the withdrawal of the US and Israeli delegations from the World Conference Against Racism, she is confident that the conference will achieve its mandate. Full text...

Durban- South Africa (PANA) -- As Israeli and US delegates jetted out of Durban on Tuesday, hours after announcing their withdrawal from the World Conference Against Racism, representatives of NGOs and human rights organizations continued to condemn the move. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- Human Rights Watch Tuesday decried the decision of the United States delegation to withdraw from the UN World Conference against Racism being held in Durban, South Africa. Full text...

Durban- South Africa (PANA) -- A 15-year-old South African schoolgirl fought back tears as she described the humiliation she endured when she was wrongfully accused of shoplifting and painted white last year. Full text...

Durban- South Africa (PANA) -- The fallout following the decision of the United States and Israel to completely withdraw from the World Conference Against Racism continued Tuesday with delegates warning that the event could become a "total failure". Full text...

Durban- South Africa (PANA) -- The Angolan government Sunday night in Durban reminded the UN conference on racism of "the 10 billion dollars that a UN Security Council resolution has ordered the apartheid regime to pay as reparations". Full text...

Durban- South Africa (PANA) -- Notwithstanding their divergences on key controversial issues, Africans at the ongoing World Conference Against Racism converged in Durban with a nine- item platform adopted way back January at a preparatory conference held in Dakar, Senegal. Full text...

Durban- South Africa (PANA) -- Mozambican Prime Minister Pascoal Mocumbi has encouraged fellow citizens to come forward and denounce any acts of racism and discrimination they may suffer based on the colour of their skin. Full text...

Durban- South Africa (PANA) -- Most of the 154 countries officially registered for the World Conference Against Racism in Durban appear to be sticking to their Positions, with the US withdrawal Monday compounding the slow progress recorded by the Conference working groups. Full text...

Durban- South-Africa (PANA) -- The Sudanese minister of justice, Ali Mohamed Osman Yasni, declared Sunday night that he was "shocked by the comparison made by Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni between the situation in the Middle East and the living conditions of blacks in Sudan". Full text...

Durban- South Africa (PANA) -- The Democratic Republic of Congo Sunday brought to the attention of the World Conference Against Racism "the insidious genocide" suffered by its people in the last three years. Full text...

Kigali- Rwanda (PANA) -- UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, currently touring Africa's troubled Great Lakes region, Monday described as "unfortunate and regrettable," the US withdrawal from the ongoing World Conference Against Racism in Durban, South Africa. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- The UN Development Programme has underscored the need for concrete steps against intolerance and racial discrimination to help the world meet development targets at the World Conference Against Racism which began Sunday in Durban, South Africa. Full text...

Durban- South Africa (PANA) -- The US decision to withdraw from the ongoing World Conference Against Racism in Durban over critical comments against Israel has drawn sharp criticism from host country South Africa. Full text...

Durban- South Africa (PANA) -- Zambian Vice President, Enoch P. Full text...

Durban- South Africa (PANA) -- The principle of compensation which is one of the hurdles at the World Conference against Racism, was deliberately caricatured to such an extent that one can't see the wood for the trees. Full text...

Durban- South Africa (PANA) -- Several heads of state and government and thousands of delegates have set the stage for plenary debate that will guide the work of the historic UN Conference against Racism under way here. Full text...

Durban- South Africa (PANA) -- The plight of a 17-year-old slave from Niger has touched the hearts of delegates at the World Conference Against Racism in Durban. Full text...

Durban- South Africa (PANA) -- A number of government ministers from developing countries have told the World Conference Against Racism in Durban that many of the problems facing their nations, including poverty and underdevelopment, were linked to slavery and colonialism. Full text...

Durban- South Africa (PANA) -- Notwithstanding the delivery of about 60 speeches highlighting efforts at national and regional levels to contain the vice, the World Conference against Racism (WCAR) underway in Durban, South Africa since Friday, has made little progress. Full text...

Durban- South Africa (PANA) -- South African Vice-President Jacob Zuma on Sunday said that his government wass hopeful that delegates attending the World Conference Against Racism would be able to agree on a number of contentious issues of the agenda. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Kenya's Daily Nation newspaper has called on the leaders of poor countries to draw a lesson from the attitude of rich countries toward the ongoing conference on racism in Durban and pull together to protect their interests. Full text...

Durban- South Africa (PANA) -- The issue of Zionism continues to dog the World Conference Against Racism in Durban as the United States, which has come under enormous criticism for refusing to send Secretary of State Colin Powell to the gathering, on Sunday threatened to completely withdraw from the event. Full text...

Kigali- Rwanda (PANA) -- Rwandan President Paul Kagame returned home Sunday afternoon from the World Conference against Racism in Durban, in South Africa, where he called on African leaders to empower their people and African institutions as an insurance against discrimination and intolerance. Full text...

Durban- South Africa (PANA) -- It is vital that company heads send a consistent message that they will not tolerate discrimination in hiring or promotion practices and make clear that their companies will uphold human rights in their operations, UN Secretary General Kofi Annan said Saturday. Full text...

Durban- South Africa (PANA) -- A group of victims of racism on Saturday began relating harrowing accounts of the ordeals they have been through. Full text...

Durban- South Africa (PANA) -- Racism has taken a heavy toll on the black people of Sudan in the past 50 years, Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni said Saturday in Durban, South Africa. Full text...

Durban- South Africa (PANA) -- Cuban President Fidel Castro on Saturday strongly called for appropriate compensation for all the injustices that Black populations, American Indians and the Aborigines of Africa, America and Asia suffered throughout history. Full text...

Durban- South Africa (PANA) -- Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade on Saturday suggested the development of "a special plan" aimed at "correcting the numerous injustices which Blacks of the Diaspora are still victims of". Full text...

Durban- South Africa (PANA) -- Nelson Mandela, the man whose name became synonymous with human rights, may not be attending the World Conference Against Racism, but he has certainly made his presence felt. Full text...

Durban- South Africa (PANA) -- An estimated 40,000 people marched through the streets of Durban Saturday in a dramatic protest against global racism. Full text...

Durban- South Africa (PANA) -- Fifteen-year-old Manar Abbas comes across as an unlikely hero. Full text...

Durban- South Africa (PANA) -- For every South African who thinks race relations have deteriorated in the past few years, there are two who think they have improved. Full text...

Kigali- Rwanda (PANA) -- The African Youth Group on the International Steering Committee for the World Conference Against Racism has requested Rwandan President Paul Kagame to be its patron, it was disclosed here late Friday. Full text...

Durban- South Africa (PANA) -- Thousands of people marched through the streets of Durban Friday at the start of the World Conference Against Racism (WCAR) to protest against a number of issues, including Zionism, landlessness in South Africa and India's caste system. Full text...

Durban- South Africa (PANA) -- South African President Thabo Mbeki, Friday called on participants at the World Conference Against Racism to "discuss practical means" of eliminating forever "the anachronistic images of black and brown ghettos of poverty" existing in the world. Full text...

Durban- South Africa (PANA) -- South African President Thabo Mbeki Friday acknowledged international support in ending apartheid, saying the victory should inspire the Durban world conference against racism to work at making the 21st Century one that restored to all, their human dignity. Full text...

Durban- South Africa (PANA) -- UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan Friday paid glowing tribute to the host of the World Conference Against Racism, saying South Africa had provided a beacon of hope for Africa and the rest of the world. Full text...

Durban- South Africa (PANA) -- South African police have thrown a ring of steel around Durban's International Convention Centre and say they are prepared for any eventuality during the World Conference Against Racism (WCAR) that began Friday in the port city of Durban. Full text...

Durban- South Africa (PANA) -- The World Conference Against Racism kicked off in earnest Friday morning with the opening ceremony in Durban. Full text...

Johannesburg - South Africa (PANA) -- The World Conference Against Racism captured media attention in South Africa this week with the spotlight beaming mainly on the US over its unmoving stance on Israel. Full text...

Windhoek- Namibia (PANA) -- Several NGOs in Namibia have criticised the US over its threat to boycott the World Conference Against Racism opening Friday in Durban, South Africa. Full text...

Durban- South Africa (PANA) -- About 15 foreign Heads of State have so far arrived in Durban ahead of the World Conference Against Racism which kicks off Friday. Full text...

Durban- South Africa (PANA) -- UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Mary Robinson has paid tribute to African countries for what she said was the extra effort they have made to contribute to the World Conference against Racism due to start in Durban on Friday. Full text...

Durban- South Africa (PANA) -- Leading American civil rights leader Jesse Jackson is still hoping that US Secretary of State Colin Powell would attend the World Conference against Racism opening Friday in Durban, South Africa. Full text...