News headlines for “War on Terror”, page 72
INDIA/PAKISTAN: Artists Take On Post-Colonial Partitions
- Inter Press Service
With national boundaries continually being redrawn in the post-colonial world, it’s time to deal with the reality of partitions and find a way 'to make peace with our partitioned selves', contends international banker-turned-art curator Hammad Nasar.
RIGHTS-US: The Children of Guantanamo
- Inter Press Service
Legal experts and human rights advocates are challenging the public to remember Guantanamo's 'child soldiers' when the detainees there are characterised as 'the worst of the worst'.
COLOMBIA: Freed Hostage Calls for Peace Negotiations
- Inter Press Service
'At one point I thought we weren't going to find him,' said Colombian Senator Piedad Córdoba about Alan Jara, the latest hostage to be freed as a goodwill gesture by insurgents after more than seven-and-a-half years as their captive in the jungle.
RIGHTS-US: Indefinite Detention Case to Test Obama's Pledges
- Inter Press Service
In what promises to be the first major test of the Barack Obama administration's new approach to the rule of law, the Supreme Court will soon hear what could be one of the most consequential cases in U.S. history.
Q&A: 'Internet Should Not Build Firewalls of Hate'
- Inter Press Service
Rabbi Abraham Cooper, one of the world’s leading human rights activists, is often heard on the subject of hate. He is an international authority on issues related to digital hate over the Internet.
U.S.: More Troops, More Worries, Less Consensus on Afghanistan
- Inter Press Service
Even as U.S. President Barack Obama prepares to deploy more military forces to Afghanistan - what he has called 'the central front' in former President George W. Bush's 'global war on terror' - a consensus on overall U.S. strategy there remains elusive.
COLOMBIA: One More Day's Delay for Civilian Hostages
- Inter Press Service
Alan Jara, the former governor of the central province of Meta, was released by Colombian guerrillas on Tuesday, instead of Monday as originally scheduled. Former regional lawmaker for the western province of Valle del Cauca, Sigifredo López, was scheduled to have been freed on Wednesday, but his handover has now been postponed until Thursday.
RIGHTS-US: Study Challenges Claims of Gitmo Recidivism
- Inter Press Service
A prominent law professor says the U.S. Defence Department is issuing questionable data on the number of Guantanamo detainees who have been released 'and then returned to the battlefield' because the government 'is now in a position where they have to find some bad guys - even if they have to invent them by naming people who were never there'.
RIGHTS-PHILIPPINES: Poor Suffer Most From Corruption
- Inter Press Service
Apo Aguila, a computer programmer, moved to Singapore in 2005, frustrated with the news that Philippine President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo had allegedly cheated in the 2004 presidential election.
RIGHTS-NEPAL: Law on Disappearances Provokes Outcry
- Inter Press Service
Despite loud opposition, the Maoist-led coalition government of Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal has vowed to push through an ordinance to resolve the cases of hundreds of people ‘disappeared’ during the decade-long people's war waged between Maoist rebels and the forces of the former monarchy.
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