Visa campaign launched for Cuban Five families
Prisoners need to see their families. The United Nations Human Rights Commission urges a minimum standard that prisoners be allowed “regular” communication with family “by correspondence and by receiving visits.”
No more troops to Afghanistan
Afghanistan is increasingly in the spotlight, as the time approaches for the Obama administration to make public the results of its comprehensive review of strategic policy there.
Israel urged to reopen Gaza borders
The UN pressed Israel on Wednesday to implement a security council resolution which calls for the reopening of crossings into the devastated Gaza Strip.
Iraqi Communist leader analyzes his countrys politics, struggle for democracy
BAGHDAD — The “Madaniyoun” List, also known as the “Democratic Stream,” is a political gathering of three Iraqi secular forces: the Arab Socialist Movement, the National Democratic Party and the Iraqi Communist Party. Niqash (a website on Iraqi politics, media and culture) met the leader of the grouping, Communist Party leader and Member of Parliament Hamid Majeed Mousa, to discuss the movement and Iraq’s political developments.
Women and men: equality drags its heels
Achieving equality between women and men remains a struggle. In the family, at work or in politics, discrimination persists.
Mining firms 'cheat Africa out of millions'
Anti-povert groups revealed on Wednesday that mining transnationals routinely deprive African countries of huge amounts of tax revenue that could be used to boost social development.
Death penalty losing favor arond the world
WASHINGTON, Mar 24 (IPS) - Though most of the world is moving a step closer to the abolition of the death penalty, death sentences continue to be handed out in the hundreds around the globe, says a new report from Amnesty International (AI).
The Black president Colombia forgot
At the end of the 19th century, Jose Nieto Gil was president of Colombia. And yet, you won't find him in a single history book. Why? Presumably because he was black.
Bolivian President Evo Morales to address UN on Mother Earth Day
“We hope that this new century is the century of the rights of mother earth.”
US 'struggling to exit Afghanistan'
President Barack Obama has indicated that his administration is struggling to cook up a coherent 'exit strategy' in Afghanistan.
