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RIGHTS-NEPAL: Torture, Routine After Arrests
Arrests are growing in Nepal as protests against the king's rule and soldiers' abuses rise. Media often report that "all those arrested were freed by the end of the day". But not everyone detained is so lucky.NEPAL: Civil War’s ‘Half-Widows’
Nepal's civil war has spawned a new term, 'half-widows', to describe the hundreds of women whose husbands are abducted by Maoist rebels or soldiers and remain missing, some for years.NEPAL: Slow Return to Democracy
Thousands of Nepalis hit the streets Thursday, and many more will stay off the capital's roads Friday, as a protest against the king's rule but overall the democracy movement has been sluggish in fulfilling some of its leaders' pledges.NEPAL: Make Way for Women, Marginalised Groups
Although the 12-point pact agreed by the country's main political parties and Maoist rebels is still far from becoming a road map to peace, women's groups and marginalised sections are already asking if they will finally be represented in a 'new' Nepal.NEPAL: King Cornered by Maoists, Political Parties
Communist Party leader Bamdev Gautam was hustled into a cafe to avoid skirmishes with police, Friday, as King Gyanendra motored past with an army escort but it seems Nepal's political parties have gained the upper hand during the monarch's three-week trip outside the country.MEDIA-NEPAL: Radio Faces the Music, Again
Eastern classical music has been playing across a wider than usual band of the FM radio spectrum in Nepal's capital, since Sunday night, when the government shut down the country's first community radio station for "encouraging terrorism".WSIS: Internet Can Create, Not Crush, Culture
You cannot resist the Internet, so you might as well bathe in its tidal wave-like wash over the world's cultures, says the director of the centuries old Alexandria Library in Egypt.WSIS: Wiring Women Won’t Close the Gap
"People say, 'what are you talking about: it's just a computer, it's just a telephone - how can there be gender issues over technology?' There's still no understanding of how things like computers get into institutions and are incorporated into existing male-dominated power structures," says an Indian woman delegate to the WSIS.WSIS: Wiring Women Won’t Close the Gap
"People say, 'what are you talking about: it's just a computer, it's just a telephone - how can there be gender issues over technology?' There's still no understanding of how things like computers get into institutions and are incorporated into existing male-dominated power structures," says an Indian woman delegate here for a global meeting on making the so-called Information Age benefit all people.WSIS: Criticism Was Conviction, Say Swiss
The Swiss government has been at the centre of controversy here over host government Tunisia's treatment of journalists and human rights activists prior to the UN World Summit on the Information Society.IPS spoke with Swiss communications minister Moritz Leuenberger about his country's stance on human rights.
WSIS: Criticism Was Conviction, Say Swiss
The Swiss government has been at the centre of controversy here over host government Tunisia's treatment of journalists and human rights activists prior to the UN World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS).WSIS: More Internet, Less Poverty?
Building a bridge across the digital divide might not be the smooth path to poverty reduction that many people believe.WSIS: An Indigenous Web Builds Up
The indigenous Navajo people of the southwestern United States are now using the Internet to reconnect to their traditional culture, and rebuild confidence.WSIS: UN Summit to Serve the People?
Now that the world's powers have agreed to stop squabbling over control of the Internet (for now), will the more than 10,000 people here for this week's United Nations forum focus on creating an information society for all people?WSIS: UN Summit to Serve the People?
Now that the world's powers have agreed to stop squabbling over control of the Internet (for now), will the more than 10,000 people here for this week's United Nations forum focus on creating an information society for all people?RIGHTS: Media Enemies to Share UN Spotlight
At least two "enemies of media freedom" will share the spotlight at this week's United Nations meeting dedicated to making the information age accessible to all the world's people.RIGHTS: Media Enemies to Share UN Spotlight
At least two enemies of media freedom will share the spotlight at this week's United Nations meeting dedicated to making the information age accessible to all the world's people.MEDIA-NEPAL: Court Refuses to Restrain King’s Gov’t
The future of one of Nepal's best known radio stations, and the country's entire media, was hazy Friday after the Supreme Court refused to issue an order preventing the government from acting against Kantipur FM.MEDIA-NEPAL: Court Refuses to Restrain King’s Gov’t
The future of one of Nepal's best known radio stations, and the country's entire media, was hazy Friday after the Supreme Court refused to issue an order preventing the government from acting against Kantipur FM.NEPAL: Court Verdicts Bring Small Victories to Women
Legislation providing that Nepali women be treated on par with men is no guarantee that such treatment will occur.NEPAL: On The Road to Failed State?
When does a conflict become a crisis? In Nepal's case it could be very soon, says the United Nations.« Previous Page — Next Page »
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