The World This Week

8226; In Pakistan, lawyers plan to begin 8220;long march8221; protest covering several cities on June 10 to demand reinstatement of deposed Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry and other judges dismissed by President Pervez Musharraf.

8226; On June 11, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper will meet a key aboriginal demand when he stands up in Parliament and formally apologises to native Indian children survivors, who were forcibly removed from their parents from the 1870s to the 1970s and sent to distant residential schools, where many say they were abused mentally, physically and sexually.

8226; On June 12, the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award is to be handed out. It is open to books written in any language.

8226;Kosovo8217;s independence will take effect on June 15, when its constitution comes into force and the U.N. mission that has run Kosovo since 1999 is expected to hand over its remaining powers. A full UN withdrawal, however, appears doubtful and it is not clear whether the EU missions that are moving in and the UN can work together.