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LABOUR: US Congress Acts On Child Slave Labour in Cocoa Industry
The US House of Representatives is asking federal regulators to devise a labeling system so that chocolate lovers here can be assured that child slave labour in West Africa played no role in the production of their guilty pleasure.RIGHTS-GUINEA: Refugees Still Under Threat, Say Watchdog Groups
Tens of thousands of refugees who have sought safe haven from war-torn Sierra Leone and Liberia remain subject to serious abuses in Guinea, according to human rights watchdogs.POLITICS-US: Bush’s Ship Losing Speed, Direction
Less than six months into George W. Bush's presidency, the ship of state appears to be losing speed and increasingly rudderless.RIGHTS: US Court Grants Rights of Immigrants Convicted of Crimes
In a ruling that may affect several thousand detained immigrants convicted of crimes, the US Supreme Court said Thursday the government may not keep them locked up indefinitely.ECONOMY: Transparency Rates Bangladesh, Nigeria, Uganda among Most Corrupt
Bangladesh, Nigeria, Uganda, and Indonesia are seen by international banks, risk analysts, and businesspeople as the most corrupt countries among some 91 nations which attract foreign investment, according to the latest annual index released by Transparency International (TI) here Wednesday.POLITICS: Bush, Mbeki Move to Align Regional Positions
President George W. Bush pledged Wednesday to work closely with Pretoria on issues ranging from the fight against HIV-AIDS, to trade and conflict resolution.POLITICS-US/PERU: CIA Risks New Embarrassments From Montesinos
While US officials hope Washington's role in the tracking down and arrest of Vladimiro Montesinos will help its image among Peruvians, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) must be concerned about what the fugitive spy-master might say about his ties to the agency.RIGHTS-KENYA: One Million AIDS Orphans Lack Adequate Help – Report
As HIV-AIDS decimates nuclear and extended families in Kenya, some one million AIDS orphans there are not receiving adequate care and protection from the state, Human Rights Watch (HRW) charged in a report Monday.HEALTH: Spread of AIDS Seen as Security Threat
AIDS has not caused any wars but the security implications of its rapid spread in Africa and other regions must be taken far more seriously by the industrialised West, according to experts here who are calling for much stronger measures - and a lot more money - to fight the deadly epidemic.RIGHTS-US: Another Execution, Another Controversy
In its second execution in ten days, the administration of President George W. Bush put to death convicted murderer Juan Raul Garza Tuesday despite claims by lawyers and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights that he did not receive a fair trial.POLITICS-US: Anti-Europeanism Raises Its Hoary Head
While President George W. Bush spent much of his first trip to Europe assuring its inhabitants that more unites the continent and the United States than divides them, many of his ideological followers back home were doing their best to stoke anti-European feeling.POLITICS-US: Bush Decision on Vieques Unlikely to Be the Last Word
President George W. Bush's decision to halt Navy bombing exercises on Vieques Island off Puerto Rico by May 2003 is unlikely to settle what has become an increasingly volatile conflict.POLITICS-US: Sanctions Against Iran Set to Continue Despite Khatami
The US Congress appears determined to extend far-reaching unilateral sanctions against Teheran for another five years, despite last week's landslide re-election of reformist President Mohamed Khatami and the growing frustration of US oil companies eager to return to Iran.ENVIRONMENT-US: Few Calming Words on Global Warming as Bush Heads to Europe
On the eve of his first trip as president to Europe, George W. Bush reiterated Monday his rejection of the 1997 Kyoto Protocol to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and instead offered to provide more money to study the problem of global warming.POPULATION-US: ‘Global Gag Rule’ Faces Legal Challenge
Opening a new front in the battle to promote international women's rights, a prominent US group filed a lawsuit Wednesday against President George W. Bush for curbing the free-speech rights of overseas groups which provide reproductive health services to women.POLITICS-US: Senate Switch Poses Problems for Bush Foreign Agenda
The impact of Wednesday's formal installation of a Democratic majority in the US Senate likely will be greatest in the domestic domestic sphere but President George W. Bush's hopes of steering US foreign policy in an evermore unilateralist direction also appear to have dimmed.HEALTH: Market Reforms Bring Vigour to Rich, Ailments to Poor — Report
People are healthier on average than they were 20 years ago but economic liberalisation has resulted in declining health for poor people, researchers say.POLITICS-US: Fight Brewing On Sudan Policy
Reports that Secretary of State Colin Powell has asked the author of "constructive engagement" with apartheid South Africa to take charge of Sudan policy foreshadow a major battle within the administration and in Congress.POLITICS: African Governments Spend Millions on US Lobbying Efforts
African governments are paying millions of dollars to lobbyists in hopes of influencing Washington's policy, according to an examination of US government files.HEALTH-US: Bush Contribution to Global AIDS Fund Assailed
US President George W. Bush announced Friday that Washington will contribute 200 million dollars to a proposed global fund to fight HIV/AIDS and other infectious diseases. AIDS and Africa activists immediately denounced the offer as far too little given the magnitude of the problem.POLITICS-US: House Rebuffs Bush on UN Payments, UNESCO
The Republican-led House of Representatives voted Thursday to withhold money owed to the United Nations in the lower chamber's first foreign-policy rebuff to President George W. Bush.« Previous Page — Next Page »
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