Overseas news archive

29.09.2006 This year's Right Livelihood Awards demonstrate how individual courage, even in the face of powerful interests and repression, can bring about remarkable changes. Meet the winners.
From: Right Livelihood Awards

29.09.2006 UN troops are making a difference, but with an expanded force and mandate they will be able to bring greater stability to the Congo in the critical post-election period, a refugee group said Wednesday.

29.09.2006 Federal forces will only exacerbate the situation in Oaxaca, where a teacher's strike has led to weeks of civil unrest, according to an international human rights organization.

29.09.2006 Halima Abdulsalami was 18 and suffering from a debilitating and isolating condition known as obstetric fistula until she learned, from a radio drama, that help was available.

28.09.2006 "Safety measures must be enhanced to protect the women who are building a better Afghanistan for all," said the director of the women's research institute at the UN, condemning Monday's murder of a top Afghan women's rights official.
From: United Nations International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women

28.09.2006 In a ground-breaking decision being called a cultural and legal victory for indigenous people, the Noongar people have won their claim over an area of 2,300 square miles, including offshore islands and the city of Perth.

28.09.2006 Abductions, torture, brutal beatings, killings, extortions and other serious human rights abuses by Maoist rebels have not stopped despite their engagement in the ongoing peace process, according to a new UN report.

28.09.2006 Professionals from around the world have called on business, government, and non-profit leaders to form strategic alliances to tackle the persistent problems of poverty, environmental degradation, and government accountability.

27.09.2006 "Jaguars, mexican gray wolves, peninsular bighorn sheep, and other endangered species need to cross their borderland habitat often, and this wall will crush their ability to survive," a conservation group has warned.
From: Center for Biological Diversity

27.09.2006 SAN FRANCISCO, Sep 27 (OneWorld) - The fate of a U.S. Army medic who went AWOL rather than return for a second tour in Iraq is unclear today after he turned himself in to military authorities.

27.09.2006 SAN FRANCISCO, Sep 26 (OneWorld) - A program to help homeowners cope with the destruction of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita is mired in red tape, with local community groups left out in the cold, a leading international aid organization charged this week.

26.09.2006 Another dividend of peace: eco-tourism and conservation are getting a boost in Uganda this month.

26.09.2006 Twenty-four were killed in a helicopter crash in Nepal Saturday. They were returning from a ceremony handing over conservation of the wildlife and habitats surrounding the world's third highest mountain to a coalition of local communities.
From: World Wildlife Fund

26.09.2006 Beijing has closed over 50 schools for children of migrant workers in the past two weeks in a move that "appears designed to discourage migrants from staying in the capital," according to a top human rights watchdog.
From: Human Rights Watch

26.09.2006 Mahmoud Ahmadinejad "was genuinely interested in further conversation with the religious community and engaging in a real discussion with the U.S. government," said one of 45 faith leaders who met the Iranian president last week to discuss his country's current political crisis with the United States.

26.09.2006 The government reviews the progress of India’s Bharat Nirman programme, which aims to cover all Indian villages with electricity, all-weather roads, potable water, and telephones by 2009.
From: Press Information Bureau, Government of India

25.09.2006 Global labour representatives rallied Friday in support of Zimbabwean colleagues who were arrested and tortured earlier this month.

25.09.2006 Escalating violence in Sri Lanka's northern Jaffna peninsula has cut food supplies and driven 60,000 people, nearly half of them children, into displaced persons camps, United Nations agencies have warned.

25.09.2006 The Centre for Science and Environment is disappointed that the Kerala High Court has cited a technicality to set aside the Indian state's ban on the production and sale of Coca Cola and Pepsi, which tests have found to be dangerously high in pesticides.

25.09.2006 While industry groups are complaining that new air pollution regulations will cost them too much money, major health and environmental groups believe the rules are still too lax and the government's own scientists say their recommendations were ignored.