News headlines for “Human Rights Issues”, page 1791
MEDIA: Deaths Down, But Iraq Still Top Danger Zone
- Inter Press Service
The improved security in Iraq has had benefits for everyone there. This has included fewer Iraqi civilian deaths, U.S. casualties, and, says a new report, journalists.
EUROPE: Swap Aid for Fewer Migrants, the French Way
- Inter Press Service
Should the amount of aid that African countries receive from Europe be linked to their efforts to prevent their nationals moving to this continent?
BOLIVIA: Aymara Traders Mix Tradition and Modern-Day Savvy
- Inter Press Service
Quietly and inconspicuously, Aymara indigenous traders are combining pre-Columbian traditions and modern-day survival skills to find unique ways of creating wealth and sustenance beyond the confines of textbook economic theory.
ZIMBABWE: Negotiations Must Move 'Outside the Box'
- Inter Press Service
With talks between Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe and his opposition yielding few resolutions to the political deadlock, some observers are calling for outside-the-box thinking beyond the parametres laid out in negotiations.
GREECE: Violence Ends, But the Explosive Is Around
- Inter Press Service
It is late at night. The city is quiet and strangely empty. Only some spooky figures appear here and there, police in civilian cloths, photojournalists looking for telling pictures.
RIGHTS-AUSTRALIA: Anti-Terror Laws Under Increasing Fire
- Inter Press Service
As the Rudd government continues to speak of the need to balance concerns for civil liberties with maintaining intrusive counter-terror legislation to protect Australia, rights groups are stepping up their campaign against the laws.
POLITICS: Global Community Shies Away from Volatile Somalia
- Inter Press Service
The international community is shying away from one of the most politically-troubled and dangerous war zones in the Horn of Africa: the perpetually strife-torn Somalia.
Q&A: Killing of Native Leader’s Husband 'Was a Planned Operation'
- Inter Press Service
At 5.30 AM the fog was just starting to lift in the freezing cold mountains of eastern Cauca, in southwest Colombia, when indigenous leader Darío Tote came across the red pickup truck riddled with bullet holes. At the wheel was Edwin Legarda, who was critically wounded.
MIDEAST: Israelis Continue to Abuse Palestinian Prisoners
- Inter Press Service
Israel released over 200 Palestinians from Israeli jails in a 'goodwill gesture' Monday. This followed the Muslim feast of Eid Al-Adha and was an attempt to boost the waning popularity of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
POLITICS-MALAYSIA: Protestors Pedal to Parliament, Brave Police
- Inter Press Service
Dozens of cyclists promoting workers' rights are on an extraordinary odyssey across the country, scheduled to climax with the handing over of memorandums in Parliament on Thursday.
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