Human rights activists from over a dozen countries sailed from Cyprus to the Gaza Strip last weekend, breaking the Israeli blockade for the first time in 41 years, reports an international alliance of grassroots development groups.
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NEW YORK, Aug 27 (OneWorld) - A new study released by the World Bank
this week has raised concerns among humanitarian workers worldwide as
more people are now believed to be living in impoverished conditions
than previously thought.
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Under the ongoing 20-month-long state of emergency, Bangladeshis have endured widespread arbitrary arrest and detention, torture, extrajudicial killings, and other human rights abuses, says an Asian human rights group.
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When Bahrul Ulumiyah Suheb is not teaching elementary school, she volunteers for a literacy program that is empowering the several thousand people in her town — 60 percent of them women — that cannot write, read, or count.
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Mexico took a positive, albeit small, step toward stemming drug gang violence — which has claimed over 2,500 lives this year alone — by adopting a security package that includes measures to combat police corruption, explains Latin America analyst Amy Coonradt.
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This Wednesday, Iran — the only country to execute a juvenile offender this year –
put to death Behnam Zare for a crime he committed as a minor, reports a human rights
monitor, noting that this is Iran’s sixth execution of a juvenile offender in 2008.
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A new law that requires 100-percent condom use among sex workers in Cambodia — where prostitution was recently outlawed — has left sex workers all the more vulnerable to arbitrary detention and human rights abuses.
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Despite the cessation of hostilities between Georgia and Russia, a "propaganda war" between the two countries is now preventing citizens — local and international — from accessing correct and unbiased information, writes a journalist in Tbilisi.
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Despite his unprecedented success in Bolivia’s recent recall referendum, President Evo Morales faces an equally emboldened and divisive opposition that is not shying away from violence and confrontation, writes professor Jennifer N. Collins.
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Environmentalists, industry leaders, and scientists have drafted international regulations to ensure that the production of biofuels — an incredibly controversial "green" energy source — do not violate labor standards, divert feedstocks from food to fuel, or release more pollution than they would save from vehicles using regular gas.
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