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Mexico May Be on Verge of Rolling Back Military Jurisdiction
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Aug 16 (IPS) - Following two groundbreaking rulings in recent days by the Supreme Court of Mexico, rights campaigners here on Thursday expressed optimism that widely criticised military legal jurisdiction over cases of human rights violations in Mexico’s anti-drugs fight could soon be overturned.
Book Exposes Violent Role of Paramilitaries in Haiti
- Inter Press Service
OAKLAND, California, Aug 16 (IPS) - Haiti’s brutal army was disbanded in 1995, yet armed and uniformed paramilitaries, with no government affiliation, occupy former army bases today.
Senegalese Cooperative Gives Youth Reasons to Stay at Home
- Inter Press Service
MATAM, Sénégal, Aug 16 (IPS) - Like many other young Senegalese, Pape Mokhtar Diallo long dreamed of escaping his rural home in northern Senegal for a better life. Three times he tried and failed to go overseas. But the establishment of an agricultural cooperative here in the village of Boyinadji has put another dream within his grasp.
Rapes of Young Girls in DRC Still Unpunished
- Inter Press Service
KINSHASA, Aug 16 (IPS) - A rash of recent rape cases has sparked local criticism of the weakness of the justice system in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where inadequate resources and simple incompetence mean survivors of sexual violence hold little hope of obtaining justice.
Food Activists See Portents of New and Deeper Hunger Crisis
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Aug 16 (IPS) - Food rights activists from around the world will descend on the coastal U.S. state of Florida next week to protest homelessness and hunger facing millions of people in the United States and across the globe.
Book Exposes Violent Role of Paramilitaries in Haiti
- Inter Press Service
OAKLAND, California, Aug 16 (IPS) - Haiti’s brutal army was disbanded in 1995, yet armed and uniformed paramilitaries, with no government affiliation, occupy former army bases today.
Colombian President Meets with Nasa Indians
- Inter Press Service
PIENDAMÓ, Colombia, Aug 16 (IPS) - Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos travelled to a native reserve in the southwest of the country Wednesday to meet with thousands of indigenous people who had gathered there for nearly a week, demanding an end to fighting in their territory.
In Peace, Palestinian Women Under Attack
- Inter Press Service
RAMALLAH, Occupied West Bank, Aug 16 (IPS) - After the brutal murder of a Palestinian woman in late July in a busy Bethlehem marketplace, local human rights groups are pushing for stronger reforms to stem violence against women in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
Mauritanian Women Turn to Poultry to Fight Poverty
- Inter Press Service
NOUAKCHOTT, Aug 16 (IPS) - The building is standing empty now, but Fatimetou Mint M'Barkenni is looking forward to when it is again filled with the soft cheeping of day-old chicks. Earlier in the year, she raised a first batch of broiler chickens as part of a pilot project, to boost rural incomes and food security here at Bourate, in rural Mauritania.
Israel’s Iran War Talk Aims at Deal for Tougher U.S. Policy
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Aug 16 (IPS) - Two recent interviews apparently given by Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak provide evidence that the new wave of reports in the Israeli press about a possible Israeli attack on Iran is a means by which Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Barak hope to leverage a U.S. shift toward Israel’s red lines on Iran’s nuclear programme.
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