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POLITICS-NEPAL: Working Around the Rebels
With rumours of an impending Maoist blockade of the country's highways spreading like spring fever, many people in Nepal are dreading another round of price hikes of fresh vegetables and shortages of items like cooking fuel, flour and sugar.RIGHTS-NEPAL: ‘Disappearances’ Still Rife, Says Report
Almost one year after Nepal promised to move to end ''disappearances'' of people suspected of aiding a potent Maoist insurgency that has left 11,000 of its citizens dead, the Himalayan nation's commitments still ring hollow.NEPAL: Pressure Builds on King’s Three-Year Plan
The weekend was a glorious one in Nepal's capital; it was easy to forget that just a day earlier dozens, perhaps hundreds, of political party members and other activists who dared to publicly protest the Feb. 1 royal coup were promptly nabbed and jailed by security forces.NEPAL: Pressure Builds on King’s Three-Year Plan
The weekend was a glorious one in Nepal's capital. Under a clear blue sky residents hung washing to dry on rooftops and stripped toddlers of layers of winter clothes so the hot sun could warm their dimpled bodies.CHALLENGES 2004-2005: Ten Years a Heartbeat for Indigenous Peoples
After a decade of negotiating, Andrea Carmen stopped eating.HUMAN RIGHTS DAY: What About Teens’ Rights?
When officials from the public prosecutor's office in Brazil's Rio de Janeiro state conducted a surprise inspection of a juvenile detention centre they found 13 youths locked in a cramped and windowless cell.HUMAN RIGHTS DAY: What About Teens’ Rights?
When officials from the public prosecutor's office in Brazil's Rio de Janeiro state conducted a surprise inspection of a juvenile detention centre they found 13 youths locked in a cramped and windowless cell.POLITICS: U.S. Soldiers Seek Asylum in Canada
Canadian leaders, not the country's refugee system, should decide the fate of soldiers who have deserted the U.S. military to apply for asylum in their northern neighbour, according to a support group.POLITICS: U.S. Soldiers Seek Asylum in Canada
Canadian leaders, not the country's refugee system, should decide the fate of soldiers who have deserted the U.S. military to apply for asylum in their northern neighbour, according to a support group.U.S. ELECTION: 59,054,087 ‘Stupid’ – 6,260 Sorry
Thousands of Americans are apologising to the world for the millions of their fellow citizens who voted President George W. Bush back into office Nov. 2.INDIGENOUS PEOPLES-CANADA: Justice Elusive, Prejudice Pervasive
Neil Stonechild was 17 when, it is alleged, Saskatoon City Police took the drunken youth on a "starlight tour" one night, dumping him on the outskirts of the prairie town in -24C weather, where his frozen body was found four days later.IRAQ: Aid Agency Exit Leaves Nation Further Isolated
The withdrawal from Iraq of aid agency Doctors Without Borders will further isolate the nation at a time when it should be re-establishing links with the international community, says a doctor with vast experience in the war-torn country.U.S. ELECTION: Who Has Spoken?
''America has spoken,'' declared President George W. Bush on Wednesday. But have all U.S. citizens been heard?U.S. ELECTION: Bush Challenges Voting Law
We all know what U.S. citizens will do if they feel cheated in Tuesday's presidential election: go to court.U.S. ELECTION: Bush Challenges Voting Law
We all know what U.S. citizens will do if they feel cheated in Tuesday's election: go to court.ENVIRONMENT: Guess Who Extreme Weather Hits Hardest?
When it rains, it really pours on the world's poorest.AFRICA: Civil Society Wants More Space
African civil society groups are calling on the continent's governments to make more room for them at the tables where decisions are made about development.U.S. ELECTIONS: Public Interest Groups Pump Up Spending
Groups devoted to electing one of the two main contenders in the U.S. presidential contest are raising cash at an unheard of rate, but that does not signal ''special interests'' are dominating the democratic process, say experts.HEALTH-U.S.: Killer Flu Gets No Respect
One of the largest mass murderers of the 20th century gets no respect. That, say experts, is why the temporary shutdown of just one production plant in England has created a drastic shortage of influenza vaccine in the United States as winter flu season approaches.RIGHTS: 11 ‘Disappeared’ in U.S. War on Terror – Report
Eleven prisoners captured by the Bush administration in its ''war on terrorism'' have disappeared, opening a ''gateway'' to torture and other abuses prohibited by global law, says a new report by Human Rights Watch (HRW).RIGHTS: 11 ‘Disappeared’ in U.S. War on Terror – Report
Eleven prisoners captured by the Bush administration in its ''war on terrorism'' have disappeared, opening a ''gateway'' to torture and other abuses prohibited by global law, says a new report by Human Rights Watch (HRW).« Previous Page — Next Page »
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