A children’s aid organization is operating special programs for kids and assisting thousands of families currently living in shelters as Hurricane Gustav hit the U.S. Gulf Coast yesterday.
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BILWI, Nicaragua, Sep 2 (IPS) - Some 250,000
indigenous children and adolescents who had no legal identity in
Nicaragua are in the process of being registered — an essential step
towards achieving recognition of their basic human rights.
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Journalists from the public TV and radio program Democracy Now! were released Monday following their illegal arrest by Minneapolis Police while covering protests at the Republican National Convention the same day.
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Satellite images released by a UN program prove that five ethnic Georgian villages near the South Ossetian capital were intentionally targeted and destroyed, reports a human rights watchdog.
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UNITED NATIONS, Sep 1 (OneWorld) - A vast majority of Latino workers in the United States are forced to work for long hours and low wages with no health care or any other benefits, says a new study published this week.
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Women journalists, activists, and others held a roundtable discussion during this week’s Democratic National Convention, highlighting topics such as the impact of poverty and post-Katrina recovery on low-income women and women of color.
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A group of Zimbabwean female human rights defenders explains how they
continue to promote electoral reform through flyer distribution and
public demonstrations despite political repression and police abuse.
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A local microcredit organization is
helping disabled villagers in Bangladesh — including one paraplegic
who now owns his own tailoring shop — improve their lives by starting
their own businesses.
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Johannesburg - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has left South Africa after signing a raft of energy agreements with Pretoria, a senior government spokesperson said Wednesday. “He left late on Tuesday after the state banquet which followed the signing of the agreements,” Xolani Malawana said. The deal was part of a burgeoning co-operation between South America and the African continent. The two countries signed a string of energy co-operation agreements that President said aimed to cut out the middle man in plans to foster oil trade between the two countries. Chavez said it was critical for…
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Kebri Dehar - UN humanitarian chief John Holmes on Tuesday urged Ethiopia to grant aid groups access to conflict zones in the southern Ogaden region where the army is battling a rebel group. Ethiopian military launched a crackdown last year on the region after the Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) attacked a Chinese-run oil venture, killing 77 people. Aid workers say the military operation has caused a humanitarian crisis, displacing hundreds of thousands of people, many of them fleeing to lawless neighbouring Somalia. “There are still some areas (in Ogaden) where access is more limited because conflict is more active. That’s where we want to press (the government) for more free…
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