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Slate for U.N. Rights Body Packed with Ringers
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Nov 12 (IPS) - When the former Human Rights Commission was partially dominated by countries accused of political repression, a U.S. congressman ridiculed the U.N. body where, he said, "inmates were taking over the asylum."
Honduran Police Protest Crackdown on Corruption
- Inter Press Service
TEGUCIGALPA, Nov 12 (IPS) - Police officers in Honduras are protesting regulatory measures and aptitude tests implemented as part of reforms aimed at purging the police force of corruption and growing links to organised crime.
Q&A: "They Demanded I Behave. I Decided Not To"
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Nov 12 (IPS) - Khadija Ismayilova has been threatened with blackmail by her own government. She has been branded an "enemy of the state", mainly for her exposés of official corruption.
Missing Themes in the U.S. Election
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Nov 12 (IPS) - The media did their best to make the U.S. presidential election look important, the altar on which democracy is built. But there has been a problem ever since the Supreme Court legalised unlimited campaign spending (six billion dollars this year), thereby authorising one more freedom of expression, called "commercial speech" even though much of this speech is libellous, often neither true nor relevant.
Breast Cancer Screening Comes to Palestinians
- Inter Press Service
DURA, Occupied West Bank, Nov 12 (IPS) - Fatmeh Abu Hrar Tabeel has had her first ever breast cancer screening. "It feels good to know, of course. Thanks to god, I am well," the 51-year-old mother of seven told IPS. "Now I can examine myself once a month from home; the doctor showed me how."
Home Is Not for Visiting
- Inter Press Service
SAFED, Northern Israel, Nov 12 (IPS) - It came like a bolt from the blue on this serene city perched in the hills of Galilee. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas declared on Israel's Channel Two television earlier this month, "I want to see Safed! It's my right to see it, but not to live there."
Senegal Villages Aspire to Self-sufficiency in Rice
- Inter Press Service
DAKAR, Nov 12 (IPS) - The residents of five villages in the Boyard Valley, in southwestern Senegal, are freeing themselves from "the tyranny of imported rice" by stepping up local production of this important staple food.
Will Social Media Sway Malaysia’s Elections?
- Inter Press Service
KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 11 (IPS) - Malaysia is gearing up for a general election in six months and as the campaigns enter the crucial voter-courting phase many observers are wondering if the political ‘tsunami', which severely weakened the ruling National Front coalition (BN) at the 2008 polls, might be repeated.
Pakistan Moves to Safeguard Witnesses
- Inter Press Service
KARACHI, Nov 11 (IPS) - Violence and crime are on the rise in Pakistan and none are more at risk than those who witness murders, robberies, abuse or kidnapping first-hand.
War’s End Threatens Water Supply in Northern Sri Lanka
- Inter Press Service
JAFFNA, Sri Lanka, Nov 10 (IPS) - War is seldom good for anything, especially protracted conflicts like the one in Sri Lanka, which dragged on for over three decades and claimed between 80,000 to 100,000 lives.
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