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Franz von Däniken also urged the US not to abuse its position in Iraq (Keystone)

The government says it is ready to work closely with the United States on a whole range of international issues despite tensions raised by the war in Iraq. A senior foreign ministry official on a visit to Washington stressed Switzerland’s

The cause of human rights in Asia has lost a "champion" activist in Mike Jendrzejczyk, who colleagues left an unfillable "void" after his death at the age of 53. Human Rights Watch, his employer for 13 years

The Tibetan monks of the Drepung Loseling Monastery will create and destroy a sand mandala to symbolize the impermanence of being in a weeklong ceremony at the Birmingham Museum of Art.

One of the most popular events at the Birmingham Museum of Art returns Sunday when Tibetan Buddhist monks of the Drepung Loseling Monastery create a sand mandala painting in view of the public.

A world-wide simultaneous prayer and meditation for world peace will be observed on 7th May, 2003, from 10.00 am to 10.15am, Indian standard time. The schedule for the event was recently announced by His Holiness the Dalai Lama in response

A 24-hour hunger strike at the University of Otago to raise awareness for a missing Tibetan Buddhist is not without its creature comforts. A television (with an all-weather power plug), tent, T-shirt printing equipment and a meditation zone

A senior U.S. official says Washington's decision not to sponsor a resolution critical of China at this year's meeting of the U.N. Human Rights Commission decision was aimed at winning increasing cooperation from Beijing on its human rights record.

An 11th century statue of the androgynous forms of Shiva and Parvati stands in the Nepal section of the Himalayan art exhibit at the Art Institute of Chicago April 2, 2003, in Chicago. The figure, called 'ardhanarisvara' in Sanskrit, is a form created to reflect the duality of the godhead as well as the interdependence of man and woman. (AP Photo/Brian Kersey)

The majesty and holiness of the Himalayas have enthralled art curator Pratapaditya Pal for nearly 50 years, and he believes religious art from those mountains can be a shelter in a war-torn world.