News headlines for “Human Rights Issues”, page 1758
HEALTH-BRAZIL: Older Women at Higher Risk from AIDS
- Inter Press Service
The HIV infection rate in women over 50 in Brazil has more than tripled since 1996, making this population group the prime target of the government's HIV/AIDS prevention campaign during the carnival festivities.
RIGHTS-US: Rendition Case Enters 'Bizarre' Realms of Secrecy
- Inter Press Service
A prominent British-American lawyer who represents an Ethiopian-born Guantanamo detainee is charging that U.S. Defence Department officials are intentionally concealing evidence of his client's rendition and torture from President Barack Obama.
RIGHTS: Human Slavery Thriving in the Shadows
- Inter Press Service
'Dora', a young Mexican woman, was helped by another Mexican woman to cross the U.S. border in the promise of a good job there. She ended up in Texas, working in a sweatshop and not allowed to go out or even take a shower.
MIDEAST: Egypt's Star Rising in Regional Politics
- Inter Press Service
Back in mid-December, many Middle Easterners were daring to hope that, with the imminent end of George Bush's presidency, their own deeply U.S.-influenced region might see a new day of peacemaking and inclusiveness in place of the recent years of war, confrontation, discrimination and distrust.
MIDEAST: News Coverage Throws Up Arab Rifts
- Inter Press Service
Coverage of Israel's recent war on the Gaza Strip by regional news stations has reflected longstanding political divisions within the Arab world. Qatar-based Al- Jazeera's reporting drew a particularly angry response from Egypt.
POLITICS-US: New Bid to Ban Indiscriminate Weapons
- Inter Press Service
Leaders of a wide variety of national organisations and Congress are putting pressure on U.S. President Barack Obama to reconsider his predecessor's policies of allowing the use, transfer and production of weapons that have been shown to indiscriminately maim and kill civilians.
PHILIPPINES: Rapist US Marine’s Custody - Women’s Group Sceptical
- Inter Press Service
A 'one-step victory' was how a women’s rights group described a decision handed down by the Supreme Court (SC) this week on a controversial rape case involving a United States serviceman.
CAMBODIA: Justice In Sight for Khmer Rouge Victims
- Inter Press Service
An experiment in international justice finally gets under way on Feb. 17 when a war crimes tribunal begins in Cambodia to prosecute the notorious jailer of the genocidal Khmer Rouge regime.
U.S.: Rightward Shift in Israeli Polls Creates New Headaches
- Inter Press Service
The strong showing by right-wing parties in Israel's elections is likely to create new obstacles to U.S. President Barack Obama's hopes for achieving a swift and substantial progress, if not a breakthrough, in peace negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians, according to most experts here.
POLITICS: Latin American Leaders Say 'No' to U.S. Drug War
- Inter Press Service
A commission led by three former Latin American heads of state has called the 30-year U.S. 'war on drugs' in Latin America a failure and urged a drastic change in policy.
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