News headlines for “Human Rights Issues”, page 1755
POLITICS: Afghanistan, the Next U.S. Quagmire?
- Inter Press Service
The United States is planning to send an additional 17,000 troops to one of the world's most battle-scarred nations - Afghanistan - long described as 'a graveyard of empires'.
DEVELOPMENT: Think of the Women Farmers
- Inter Press Service
The new president of the International Fund for Agricultural Development takes over at a time when women farmers are becoming a growing force - without a growing voice.
MIDEAST: Little Hope From New US Mediation
- Inter Press Service
Egyptians seem at best only cautiously optimistic over the appointment of Senator George Mitchell as U.S. envoy to the Middle East. Mitchell is mandated chiefly with settling the Arab-Israeli dispute.
MIDEAST: Hamas Offered a Bullet to Bite
- Inter Press Service
Israel's outgoing prime minister Ehud Olmert is risking a crisis of confidence with Egypt by insisting that a prisoner exchange between Israel and Hamas precede any Egyptian-mediated ceasefire arrangement to end the Gaza war.
IRAQ: Still Homeless in Baghdad
- Inter Press Service
'We only want a normal life,' says Um Qasim, sitting in a bombed out building in Baghdad. She and others around have been saying that for years.
RIGHTS-BURMA: Junta Declares War on Lawyers, Jails Them
- Inter Press Service
To be a lawyer in military-ruled Burma is to court danger, invite arrest and risk being jailed in the country’s notorious prisons.
ECONOMY-US: Squatters See Silver Lining in Foreclosed Homes
- Inter Press Service
With foreclosures skyrocketing and U.S. families sinking deeper into poverty, a number of organisations are turning to a new strategy to end homelessness: moving families into vacant, foreclosed houses that are currently owned by banks or the government.
Q&A: ‘‘The Worst Job In The World‘‘
- Inter Press Service
Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe last week presided over the formation of a new unity government. Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) secretary general Tendai Biti was appointed to the post of finance minister.
US-AFGHANISTAN: Civilian Casualties May Surge As Well
- Inter Press Service
U.S. President Barack Obama announced Tuesday that he is sending two additional combat brigades to Afghanistan, marking the start of what many believe will be an escalation that will ultimately see the U.S. forces there double.
PAKISTAN: Militants Make Aid Work Risky
- Inter Press Service
The kidnapping of John Solecki of the United Nations High Commission on Refugees(UNHCR)in Quetta, Balochistan province seems to confirm the perception of international humanitarian organisations that aid work in Pakistan is becoming increasingly hazardous.
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