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Osama Death May Splinter Militants
- Inter Press Service
The killing of Al-Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden in an operation by the U.S. forces has dealt a serious blow to the beleaguered Tehreek Taliban Pakistan (TTP).
Flagged for Removal: Online Censorship on the Rise
- Inter Press Service
The shutdown was surprisingly swift and almost total. In the midst of a popular revolution — one that was blogged, YouTubed, and Twittered in minute-by-minute cyber blasts — the Egyptian regime tightened its Internet spigot in late January, choking the free flow of information down to a trickle.
MEXICO: Journalists Defy Violence, Self-Censorship
- Inter Press Service
In Mexico, the country in the Americas facing the worst wave of violence against reporters, different journalistic initiatives are combating this dynamic, which fuels a tendency towards self-censorship.
Q&A: Child Victims Have 'Leading Role' in Creating a Non-Violent Society
- Inter Press Service
Appointed to the gigantic task of building international understanding of violence against children and adolescents, 58-year-old Portuguese lawyer Marta Santos Pais is based in New York and works with a small staff of only seven people.
SIERRA LEONE: Growing Pains for Local Councils
- Inter Press Service
He was all over the place during the 2008 local council election campaign, but no one's seen the councillor since he won his seat, says Freetown journalist Ismael Bakarr. 'He just disappeared.'
Syria's Crackdown Undermines Claim for Seat in Human Rights Council
- Inter Press Service
When the General Assembly meets on May 20 to elect 15 new members for the Human Rights Council (HRC), the four candidates from the Asian Group - India, Indonesia, the Philippines and Syria - were until now considered certain winners for one primary reason: they remain uncontested on a 'clean slate' for four vacant uncompetitive Asian regional seats.
SRI LANKA: War Long Over, Media Still Muzzled
- Inter Press Service
It has been two years since the end of Sri Lanka’s decades long war, and life in general has begun to slowly edge back towards normalcy here. Not so for the country’s besieged media community, according to observers and journalists alike - reporting still feels hemmed in and muzzled, they say.
Drug-Related Violence Closing in on Mexican Capital
- Inter Press Service
The military offensive waged by the conservative government of President Felipe Calderón against drug cartels in northern Mexico has resulted in an appalling death toll and grief-stricken relatives mourning the victims, many of them civilians caught in the crossfire. Now the drug war is beginning to affect the capital, which had so far escaped the worst of the violence.
Dramatic End to Long Hunt
- Inter Press Service
In the middle of the night, in an affluent suburb a little over 50 kilometres north of Islamabad, Pakistan, Osama bin Laden was gunned down in a compound shielded by barbed wire-topped walls up to five-and-a-half metres high. He resisted, United States officials say, fighting till the death as he had vowed he would.
‘Good News’ on Holocaust Anniversary
- Inter Press Service
Israelis woke up in the morning of Holocaust Remembrance Day, switched on their radio, and heard unexpected 'good news'.
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