News headlines in 2011, page 170

Britain has officially recognised Libya's main opposition group as the country's legitimate government, and asked all diplomats belonging to Muammar Gaddafi's government to leave the United Kingdom.

Civil society organisations in Latin America have begun to coordinate joint actions in the region to curb what they see as a tendency towards privatisation, while protesting what they call a range of 'subtle' ways of undermining public control of water.

Two centuries after the abolition of slavery we are seeing the reintroduction of an abominable practice: human trafficking. The International Labour Organisation (ILO) estimates that 12.3 million people each year are taken captive by networks tied to international crime and used as forced labour in inhuman conditions, writes Ignacio Ramonet, editor of Le Monde Diplomatique in Spanish.

María José Aceituno, who works at a public relations firm in the Guatemalan capital, has two children and says she is not having any more, in order to safeguard the financial position and security of her family. 'I would rather have two happy children than 10 who are dissatisfied,' she said.

The Norwegian right wing extremist Anders Behring Breivik, who killed at least 76 people in two terrorist attacks Jul. 22 Oslo and Utoya, is a member of a network of more than 10,000 neo-fascist groups spread across North America and Western and Northern Europe.

The use of information technology in energy planning can contribute not only to developing renewable energy sources but also to moving towards a green economy.

The content of your recent report on the Channel 4 video screened in Capitol Hill is disappointing. Your reporter uncritically endorsed the line purveyed by the organisers of the event without so much as a passing reference to the counter views advanced by my office at the screening of this video in New York or an effort to contact the Sri Lankan authorities. Not very professional!

'Our American family will only be as strong as our Latino community,' U.S. President Barack Obama said in his address at the National Council of La Raza's annual conference in Washington on Monday.

Indian and Pakistani officials have held discussions in New Delhi, the Indian capital, that will lay the groundwork for formal peace talks set for Wednesday.

As African Union and NATO leaders push for a political solution to the Libyan crisis, many of the thousands of refugees and migrants stranded on the Libyan- Tunisian border say their plight continues to fall on deaf ears.