News headlines for “Human Rights Issues”, page 1750
ENERGY-INDIA: Biofuelling Confusion
- Inter Press Service
A cactus-like plant spread over acres of red, laterite soils in the Tree Oils research farm, in this arid part of southern India, is at the centre of huge divisions over India’s ambitious biofuel programme.
RIGHTS-US: Few Safety Nets for Women of Colour
- Inter Press Service
As hundreds of activists from around the world descend on the United Nations Monday for a major two-week meeting on women's rights and equality, the economic crisis here in the host country is continuing to have an especially heavy toll on women of colour.
MIDEAST: How to Aid Gaza and Not Hamas
- Inter Press Service
'There's no doubt there's been a huge amount of damage done, including whole sectors of private sector buildings which have been razed to the ground and, in any event, given the numbers of people that have died, I find the conversation about proportionality not really a sensible conversation to have. What we've got to do is to find a way of ensuring this doesn't happen again.' The pointed comment came from former British prime minister Tony Blair, special international envoy to the Middle East, during his first visit to Gaza after Israel's offensive against Hamas.
SOUTH-EAST ASIA: Leaders Look to UN for Help With Burma
- Inter Press Service
South-east Asian leaders ended a summit here on Sunday by placing greater faith in the United Nations, than their regional bloc in dealing with a member - military-ruled Burma.
INDIA/PAKISTAN: Trade, Travel Across Divided Kashmir Stalled
- Inter Press Service
Trade and travel between the Indian and Pakistan parts of Kashmir, as part of confidence building measures (CBMs) between the two rival countries, appear to have become a casualty of the Nov. 26-29 terror attacks on the port city of Mumbai.
MINING-LIBERIA: Steel Town Blues For Yekepa
- Inter Press Service
Three exhausted railroad workers sip beer and talk on the back porch of a makeshift bar in Liberia's rural Nimba County, concealed by nightfall and the deafening din of motorcycles and a generator nearby.
MINING-WEST AFRICA: Ending the Race to the Bottom
- Inter Press Service
Resource extraction in West Africa has often coincided with environmental degradation and brutal conflict. Activists further charge that the agreements between governments and transnational mining companies do little to benefit local communities.
SOUTH-EAST ASIA: Plans for Regional Rights Body Hit Realities
- Inter Press Service
Plans to create a regional human rights body for the ten-nation South-east Asian bloc are threatening to expose the gulf that separates countries that seek to respect political and civil liberties and the notorious violators.
POLITICS: US Allies Overlook Dutch Foe of Islam's Far Right Ties
- Inter Press Service
The fiercely anti-Islam Dutch MP Geert Wilders has been traveling through the U.S. this week on a highly-publicised trip to meet with politicians, promote his controversial film ‘Fitna’, and raise money for his legal defence back home.
RIGHTS-SRI LANKA: India Can Help End Civilian Killings
- Inter Press Service
As Sri Lanka’s armed forces battle the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in their last stronghold, the island country’s influential neighbour, India, is weighing diplomatic options to goad President Mahinda Rajapakse’s government to save civilians trapped in the war zone.
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