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IRAN: Rights Group Seeks Release of Mistreated and Ill Detainee
- Inter Press Service
Iranian authorities should release a prominent reformist detained during recent post-election unrest to a medical facility because he has suffered harsh interrogations and inadequate medical care that could have life-threatening consequences, said a prominent human rights group Wednesday.
LIBERIA: Controversial Mayor is Talk of the Town
- Inter Press Service
Myaha Johnson sits with her family beneath a flimsy shelter of black plastic, looking with despair at the charred remains of what used to be their home. Mary Broh, Monrovia’s controversial mayor-designate, had just swept through the neighbourhood with her task force, vigorously tearing down residential structures along the back road, including their own.
RIGHTS: U.N. Slams U.S. on Racial Profiling
- Inter Press Service
Millions of U.S. citizens continue to face discrimination at the hands of police and other law enforcement agencies just because they are not white, although the country's new leader in the White House is himself of African American descent.
ECONOMY: Migrant Miseries Will Trickle Down Worldwide, U.N. Warns
- Inter Press Service
At least 150 million migrant workers - out of an estimated total of 200 million in the world today - fit the 'demographic characteristics of workers who are the most vulnerable' during the current global financial crisis, the U.N. says.
ECONOMY-UGANDA: Traders Go Down as Prices Go Up
- Inter Press Service
With the world economy in the grip of a credit crunch, traders and consumers in Uganda are struggling with price inflation and the depreciation of the country’s currency, the Ugandan shilling, against the dollar. Especially importers have not been able to bring goods in which were ordered when prices were lower.
PARAGUAY: President and Congress Face Off Over Agrochemicals
- Inter Press Service
'Silvino was riding his bike on a dirt road near our home when he was poisoned by toxic agrochemicals, sprayed on a nearby field of soybeans. He died soon afterwards. He was 11,' said his mother, Petrona Villasboa, a rural activist in southern Paraguay.
AUSTRALIA: Attacks Expose Ills Of A Much-Touted Education System
- Inter Press Service
The modern façade of its cities, cost-effectiveness and its high standards of education, make Australia an attractive destination for foreign students. But the recent spate of attacks on Indian students has exposed the many ills afflicting the Australian education system, threatening its lucrative markets.
MIDEAST: Finding Fish, But Israelis Too
- Inter Press Service
'They told us 'go west or we will shoot you',' says Ashraf Sadallah. 'Initially, we refused, so they began shooting very close all around our boat.'
COLOMBIA: Jaime Garzón’s Murder; No Digging Allowed Part 2
- Inter Press Service
It’s always the same: the TV audience is grief-stricken and indignant that he is no longer with us, but they continue to laugh along with him. Beloved Colombian comic Jaime Garzón was assassinated on Aug. 13, 1999, but he is still alive on the small screen.
PERU: Minister Tried to Promote Police Investigated for Massacre
- Inter Press Service
Peru’s Interior Minister Mercedes Cabanillas attempted to promote 11 police officials for their performance in the brutal Jun. 5 crackdown on native protests against government decrees that opened up indigenous land in the Amazon jungle to oil, mining, logging and agribusiness companies.
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