AFRICA: Proving Ground For International Criminal Court?
By Miriam Mannak
CAPE TOWN - The International Criminal Court (ICC) is using Africa as a guinea pig, and is too selective when it comes to arresting, indicting and prosecuting perpetrators of war crimes and crimes against humanity. This was one of the opinions raised during a recent seminar in Cape Town organised by the Centre for Conflict Resolution (CCR).
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US/PAKISTAN: Mystery Behind Aafia Siddiqi's 'Arrest' Deepens
By Zofeen Ebrahim
KARACHI - ‘’For you it’s just another story. If you want the truth go to Ghazni where you will get more than I can ever tell you about my sister," said a distraught Fouzia Siddiqi, speaking with IPS, in a voice breaking with helpless desperation.
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POLITICS: Kosovo Casts Shadow on South Ossetian Standoff
By Ali Gharib
WASHINGTON - With the conflict between Georgia and Russia lowered to a simmer after the signing of a ceasefire agreement, questions still remain about the U.S. role and positions on the start of the conflict as well as where it stands moving forward towards a resolution.
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PERU: Native Groups Protest Laws Facilitating Sales of Land
By Milagros Salazar
LIMA - Defending the state of emergency declared in three provinces in Peru to crack down on protests by indigenous communities against a law facilitating the sale of their community-owned lands, Prime Minister Jorge del Castillo said the government was safeguarding "the rights of the great majority of Peruvians."
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MALAYSIA: Crackdown on Civil Rights, Media Feared
By Baradan Kuppusamy
KUALA LUMPUR - A series of tough measures in recent weeks has raised fears of a major crackdown against tolerance and dissent as rival political forces battle for state power in a society made fragile by economic uncertainties and decades of autocratic rule.
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ZIMBABWE: Farmers Can't Afford to Leave Markets -- Literally
By Tonderai Kwidini
HARARE - It is a wintry Tuesday evening at one of the tobacco auction floors in the Zimbabwean capital Harare. A group of small-scale tobacco farmers are preparing food for the night.
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MIDEAST: Palestinians Lose a Voice
By Mohammed Omer
GAZA CITY - In the death of poet Mahmoud Darwish, Palestine has lost a voice.
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RIGHTS-MOROCCO: Firing Squads Silent - But Death Hovers
By Abderrahim El Ouali
CASABLANCA, Morocco - Morocco's death row prisoners -- some 150 inmates -- are living in sub-human, "life-threatening conditions", according to leading NGOs and rights activists.
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CUBA: Founder of Women in White Drops Out
By Patricia Grogg
HAVANA - Miriam Leiva, one of the founders of the Cuban movement Women in White, announced Monday that she was leaving the group of wives, mothers and sisters of imprisoned dissidents to dedicate herself to "independent journalism."
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EQUATORIAL GUINEA: Human Rights Drowning in Oil
By Mario de Queiroz
LISBON - The oil interests of Angola, Brazil and Portugal could pave the way for former Spanish colony Equatorial Guinea to become the ninth member of the Community of Portuguese Language Countries (CPLP) two years from now, despite the country’s poor human rights record.
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