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/ 5 September 2008
A new report by a major US human rights group on the situation in Somalia criticises United States counter-terrorism policies.
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/ 28 February 2007
Human rights activists have welcomed the request by the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Tuesday that it issue summonses against a senior Sudanese government official and an Arab militia leader who allegedly played key roles in the deaths of tens of thousands of innocent civilians in Darfur since 2003.
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/ 16 September 2006
In an important policy shift, the World Health Organisation (WHO) on Friday announced that it is urging the use of the pesticide DDT to control the spread of malaria, a mosquito-borne disease that kills about one million people a year, most of whom are infants and young children in Africa.
While political pressure is building on United States President George Bush to do more to stop what he calls ”genocide” in Darfur, recent events suggest that the National Islamic Front government of Sudan is not particularly concerned. One sign of the regime’s confidence was its decision to block the scheduled visit this week to Darfur by the United Nation’s chief aid official, Jan Egeland.
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/ 15 September 2005
It was Jim Hoagland, the Washington Post‘s liberal hawk par excellence, who first pondered the possible foreign policy consequences of Hurricane Katrina and the destruction of New Orleans. ”Will post-Katrina America,” he asked in his regular column, ”be humbler, more cooperative and more understanding of other nations’ problems and failures?”
An unusually broad coalition of 12 United States environmental and public-interest groups launched a national boycott on Tuesday of ExxonMobil, the world’s largest oil company, for undermining efforts to combat global warming and lobbying Congress to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) to drilling.
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/ 11 February 2005
When the leader of a powerful gang in the oil-rich Niger Delta, Alhaji Dokubo Asari, threatened to declare "all-out war" last September, global oil prices hit historic highs of more than $50 a barrel. The threat and its immediate consequences underscored how a purely local conflict over control of relatively small amounts of oil can have immediate global consequences.
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/ 7 February 2005
A local conflict over control of relatively small amounts of oil in Nigeria can have immediate global consequences. Human Rights Watch has released a 22-page report on the conflict between rival gangs in the Nigerian Delta, which underlines the importance of addressing the root causes of the violence that has taken dozens of innocent lives.