Language Barrier Endangers Hawaiian Farmworkers

29.08.2008 Colonial powers created African states with arbitrary borders and unsuitable systems of "winner-takes-all" multi-party electoral democracy. As recent elections show, this has been a failure. It is time to develop an African form of democracy, says Richard Dowden.

27.08.2008 The Egyptian authorities’ "shameful treatment" of sub-Saharan African migrants and vulnerable asylum-seekers "blatantly disregards international law", says a new report.

24.08.2008 The human rights situation in Myanmar has taken a dramatic downward turn since UN Envoy Ibrahim Gambari first visited the country and declared that the regime had turned a new page with the international community.

24.06.2008 Ahead of a key House of Lords hearing, Sean Carey reflects on the disgraceful way Britain annexed a group of islands and dislodged a people to give the US an airbase.

21.02.2008 It is high time for India and China to move beyond conflicts and start cooperating politically, economically, and technologically for mutual benefits, says Dr. Aqueil Ahmad.