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Yearly Archives: 2007, 2008

CENTRAL AMERICA: Garífunas Confront Their Own Decline

Oct 10, 2008

MIAMI, Honduras, Oct 10 (Tierramérica) - "The Garífuna were the best sailors in the world," says Jermonino Barrios, standing barefoot on this slender thread of land between the Laguna de Los Micos and the blue …
RIGHTS: EU Parliament Acts Against Child Trafficking

Oct 9, 2008

BRUSSELS, Oct 9 (IPS) - The European Union needs to develop a programme against child trafficking, the bloc's only directly elected institution has declared.
POLITICS-MALAYSIA: Regime Change May Hit Reforms

Oct 9, 2008

PENANG, Oct 9 (IPS) - It took exactly seven months after a severe general electoral setback for Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi to announce that he would not be defending the presidency of the dominant party in the …
EGYPT: Anger Approaches Boiling Point

Oct 9, 2008

CAIRO, Oct 9 (IPS) - Public disaffection with the government appears to have reached an all-time high.
Q&A: 'State Secrecy Over Death Penalty Must End'

Oct 9, 2008

ROME, Oct 9 (IPS) - The call for a universal moratorium on executions made by the U.N. General Assembly last year is a landmark. But the ultimate goal of worldwide death penalty abolition could be delayed unless the …