News headlines for “Human Rights Issues”, page 1745
AUSTRALIA: African Resources Behind Growing Links
- Inter Press Service
With hundreds of Australian mining companies now involved in the extraction of natural resources in Africa, the Rudd government is also aiming to play a bigger role in the continent’s affairs.
U.S.: Islamist Govts Not the Enemy, Say Mideast Experts
- Inter Press Service
Scores of Middle East and democracy experts released an open letter to U.S. President Barack Obama Tuesday asking him to focus more of his foreign policy efforts at making reforms in the region, including boosting human rights.
PERU: Drama Exposes Rape as Weapon of War
- Inter Press Service
The film La Teta Asustada/The Milk of Sorrow, the big winner at the Berlin Film Festival, drives home the brutal effects of Peru’s armed conflict on thousands of women who were raped and have lived with the pain and a lingering sense of shame and fear ever since.
MIDEAST: Palestinian Unity as Elusive as Deal With israel
- Inter Press Service
Intensive unity talks are under way in Cairo as five Palestinian committees, representing 13 factions and independents, face each other across a table in a bid to form a new Palestinian unity government.
U.S.: Muslim Women Try to Shatter the 'Glass Minaret'
- Inter Press Service
It's Ramadan, and Sara Elghobashy and a group of her women friends, having broken their fast, are looking for a mosque where they can hear the recitation of Koran.
POLITICS-CHINA: Row Over Tibet Escalates
- Inter Press Service
China has sealed off Tibet with troops and demanded that the international community recognises the legitimacy of Beijing's historical claims over the Himalayan plateau, escalating a row over its policies there.
ECONOMY-SRI LANKA: Return of the IMF
- Inter Press Service
Sri Lanka is going on bended knee to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) - an institution it chased away two years ago - for a bailout package worth 1.9 billion US dollars, as authorities scrape the barrel for foreign exchange.
MIDEAST: Home Demolitions Threaten Peace Talks
- Inter Press Service
Eight months pregnant Shireen Abu Sbeh, 20, mother of a two-year-old, lives with eight other people in a two-bedroom apartment that is on a list of Palestinian homes in East Jerusalem to be demolished by the Israeli authorities.
BALKANS: Images Bring the Wars Back
- Inter Press Service
The guns have been silent in the Balkans for more than ten years now, but their images and echoes continue to torment thousands, the first study on health among war veterans in Serbia shows.
LIBERIA: Even the Devil is Subject to the Law
- Inter Press Service
Tiny 14-year-old Precious sits on her orphanage bed in the southern port town of Harper, accused of witchcraft six months ago and exiled from her family and nearby community. She says she was publicly beaten and tied up to burn at a stake, until the Harper police were tipped off and saved her.
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