from IRIN As the world marks International Women’s Day, ambivalence, impunity, weak law enforcement and corruption continue to undermine women’s rights in Afghanistan, despite a July 2009 law banning violence against women, rights activists say. A recent case of the… Read moreAFGHANISTAN: WOMEN’S RIGHTS TRAMPLED DESPITE NEW LAW
Continue ReadingAFGHANISTAN: WOMEN’S RIGHTS TRAMPLED DESPITE NEW LAWby Kent Paterson, Frontera NorteSur It began as an ordinary academic presentation. Backed by a power-point, sociologist Alison Newby showed a crowd at New Mexico State University (NMSU) in Las Cruces how more than 400 public and privately-contracted immigrant detention… Read moreTHE TRAUMAS OF IMMIGRAITON LAW
Continue ReadingTHE TRAUMAS OF IMMIGRAITON LAWby Nikolas Kozloff, Huffington Post With Britain now moving to explore for oil and gas in the Falkland Islands, Argentina has cried foul. Buenos Aires claims that the Falklands, or the Malvinas as Argentines refer to the islands, represent a… Read moreFALKLANDS DISPUTE: ARGENTINE SOVEREIGNY WON’T SOLVE THE PROBLEM
Continue ReadingFALKLANDS DISPUTE: ARGENTINE SOVEREIGNY WON’T SOLVE THE PROBLEMby David Wilson, MRZine Within days of a January 12 earthquake that devastated much of southern Haiti, the New York Times was using the disaster to promote a United Nations plan for drastically expanding the country’s garment assembly industry, which… Read more“REBUILDING HAITI”—THE SWEATSHOP HOAX
Continue Reading“REBUILDING HAITI”—THE SWEATSHOP HOAXby Ba Karang, The Hobgoblin What is the current meaning of “War against Terror” for Africa? The true intention of America’s recent military interventions in the African continent (both covert and open) is nothing other than the expansion and consolidation… Read moreAFRICOM AND THE USA’s HIDDEN BATTLE FOR AFRICA
Continue ReadingAFRICOM AND THE USA’s HIDDEN BATTLE FOR AFRICA
