Visiting UN Secretary General Special Envoy on AIDS in Africa Elizabeth Mataka urgedUganda to drop its impending laws against people infecting others with the AIDS and called upon the government to soften its stand on gays.
The Ugandan parliament is current preparing a law under which an AIDS patient who knowingly infects another with the deadly [...]
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Asylum-seekers caught by Indonesian forces and detained for at this point one full month, having still not been classified as refugees by the Australian government, are now on hunger strike. Austrailia continues to state that many are economic refugees and as such are not available for asylum, however those protesting from the images below certainly [...]
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The Arcadia Foundation is adamantly concerned about the promotion of democracy and believe in the fundamental protection of civil and political rights and liberties throughout the world. We are specifically pertaining to the violation of human rights that have occurred of recent date, in countries in which right to the protest [...]
Bloggers have worked adamantly to receive the same kind of prestige as mainstream journalists. Their on-the-ground, grassroots coverage is in many cases exemplary, and especially in a nation like Cuba, such talent should be awarded. It is therefore tragic that Cuba has denied an accredited blogger permission to travel to U.S. to be awarded a [...]
Bloggers and Twitter users thwarted a legal attempt today to stop Britain’s media from reporting the questions posed by a lawmaker in a parliamentary debate, spotlighting the power of new media to influence public policy.
The case involving lawmaker Paul Farrelly had threatened the rights of journalists to report anything debated in Parliament. British law allows [...]
Foreign diplomats yesterday told Honduras’ government to reinstate ousted President Manuel Zelaya. In a confrontation broadcast on local television, President Roberto Micheletti scolded the diplomats for refusing to recognize what he insisted was the lawful removal of Zelaya under the Honduran Constitution and for isolating his country. “You don’t know the truth or you don’t [...]
By Christopher Biggers, columnist for Asia Chronicle.
While U.S. President Obama decides how to spend his waning political capital, the situation in Afghanistan collapses. Obama must choose one of two strategies: Deciding whether to conduct a counterinsurgency (COIN) with the proper force ratios or opting for a “light troop footprint.” Now is not the time for [...]
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin today praised President Barack Obama’s decision to scrap plans for a missile defense system in Europe and urged the U.S. to also cancel Cold War-era restrictions on trade with Russia. NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said the Western alliance and Russia should consider linking their defensive missile systems. He said NATO and [...]
Followers of competition policy had expected the next big antitrust news to come out of Washington.
Sticklers to information technology regulation and weary of missing the ‘fraud’ boat, the administration of U.S. President Barack Obama has let it be known that it would be particularly more vigilant with regard to monitoring the field. Today, however, the [...]
