WASHINGTON, Nov 7 (OneWorld) - U.S. civil society groups are hopeful
that the election of Barack Obama will place issues of energy and the
environment, human rights at home and abroad, and aid for the world’s
poorest high on the change agenda he promised during the campaign.
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WASHINGTON, Nov 7 (OneWorld) - As the year 2008 comes to a close, OneWorld is once again looking to honor one person or organization that has inspired and improved the lives of others in their community or around the world over the past year.
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A series of attacks and counterattacks earlier this week may signal the end of a five-and-half-month ceasefire that has been the single most important factor in reducing civilian casualties in Israel and Palestine over the last eight years, says an international human rights monitor.
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The death of an 11-year-old boy is drawing attention to corporal punishment in Egyptian schools, where numerous students have suffered damaging physical abuse in the classroom.
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SAN FRANCISCO, Nov 6 (OneWorld) - An organization that has made
headlines heckling George W. Bush and other prominent politicians for
their support of the Iraq war has declared "victory" after Barack
Obama’s election as president of the United States.
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Tens of thousands of people — including indigenous Colombians, workers opposed to free trade, women’s rights advocates, and Afro-Colombian farmers — are demanding rights and recognition from the government in a movement that began in early October. Citizen journalist Mario Murillo takes an in-depth look at the "paradigm war" he says is central to the confrontation between Colombia’s haves and have-nots.
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Despite recent improvements in security and sanitation, polluted water and inadequate sanitation services in Iraq are putting millions of people at risk of disease and straining the ill-equipped health care system, reports an international aid organization.
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