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Further Victims Identified in DRC Mass Rapes Case

Aprille Muscara

UNITED NATIONS - The number of women raped by rebel groups during last month’s raid of more than a dozen villages centred around Walikale, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), has risen to over 240, U.N. officials told reporters here today.

Mass Gang Rape Exposes Systematic Sexual Violence

Outrage Grows Over Failure to Protect DRC Civilians

Rape by Regular Army a Growing Problem, HRW Says

COLOMBIA
US Military Aid Contingent on Reversal of Rights Record
Matthew Berger
WASHINGTON - As a new administration takes over in Bogotá, some groups are hoping for change in the human rights record of Colombia - and that the U.S. will use its clout in the country to ensure that change occurs.

PERU
Quechua Congresswoman Fights Discrimination in Education
Ángel Páez
LIMA - Hilaria Supa has broken down many barriers in her life. Now she has overcome another one, in an unprecedented achievement: this Quechua indigenous woman who never went to school is today chair of the congressional education committee in Peru.

RWANDA: Genocide Ideology and Sectarianism Laws Silencing Critics?

Among its unstable and conflict-ridden neighbours, Rwanda stands out. It has been pegged as a model of development and one of Africa's success stories: Since the 1990's, when a civil war ravaged the country, average incomes have doubled, its people have become healthier and less hungry and it has the highest proportion of women parliamentarians worldwide. Yet, maintaining this stability is a government accused of muzzling its opponents and committing human rights abuses.

Geothermal: Getting Energy from the Earth

Billion Dollar Audit Missed by Pentagon Watchdog

Further Victims Identified in DRC Mass Rapes Case
	The number of women raped by rebel groups during last month's raid of more than a dozen villages centred around Walikale, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), has risen to over 240, U.N. officials told reporters here today.

Funding Begins Flowing for African Agriculture

BOTSWANA: HIV-positive Mothers Not Convinced to Exclusively Breastfeed

RIGHTS-INDIA: Law to Restrict Foreign Funding Alarms NGOs
	Voluntary and charitable organisations in India are aghast at a new law to restrict foreign contributions, that was passed by both Houses of Parliament recently.

PHILIPPINES: Criminal Ban, Stigma Drive Unsafe Abortions

SRI LANKA: Anger Rises Over Torture Case, But Solution Unclear

ROMANIA: Austerity Deals Mortal Blow to Health System
	Five newborns died last week in a fire caused by an airconditioning fault at a Bucharest maternity. Insufficient, overworked staff and deficient maintenance -- results of inadequate funding of the health system - -were listed among the causes.

BALKANS: Serbia Prepares a New Case Over Kosovo

BALKANS: The Turks Return

COLOMBIA: US Military Aid Contingent on Reversal of Rights Record
	As a new administration takes over in Bogotá, some groups are hoping for change in the human rights record of Colombia - and that the U.S. will use its clout in the country to ensure that change occurs.

PERU: Quechua Congresswoman Fights Discrimination in Education

Mexico Massacre Galvanises Migrant Rights Activists

MIDEAST: Netanyahu Ignores President, and Wife
	Thousands of Israelis have protested in a central park here demanding that their government revoke its decision to deport 400 children of migrant workers.

EGYPT: Military Court Sentences Civilian Workers

US-MIDEAST: Light At End of Tunnel Elusive, Despite Obama's Efforts

Further Victims Identified in DRC Mass Rapes Case
	The number of women raped by rebel groups during last month's raid of more than a dozen villages centred around Walikale, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), has risen to over 240, U.N. officials told reporters here today.

COLOMBIA: US Military Aid Contingent on Reversal of Rights Record

500,000 Pregnant Women at Risk in Pakistan Floods

500,000 Pregnant Women at Risk in Pakistan Floods
	Aid groups and U.N. agencies are raising the alarm over the vulnerability of pregnant women and babies in flood ravaged Pakistan.

Fisheries Can Play Key Role in Africa

Environmentalists Push For Coal-ash Regulation

PHILIPPINES: Criminal Ban, Stigma Drive Unsafe Abortions
	"I felt scared. When I looked around, all the mothers had finished giving birth, while I was still there. The blood that flowed from me had already dried and caked onto my body," Lisa, a 19-year-old married mother of three, says, recounting her experience in post-abortion care at a public hospital here in the Philippine capital.