When Nigerian reporter Isioma Daniel heard that a <i>fatwa</i>, or Islamic ruling, had been issued against her, she "felt calm … then realised that there was no going back". "Was I scared? I didn’t sleep too well that night," she wrote in a February 2003 article published by <i>The Guardian</i> about her case.
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/ 22 February 2005
In the annals of utterly shameless wartime propaganda, Britain’s casting of the Kenyan Mau Mau as bloodthirsty savages, and its own colonial administrators as heroic benefactors, is pretty much the gold standard. Now an Oxford scholar has unearthed new evidence of Britain’s ruthless response to the Mau Mau rebellion.
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/ 14 January 2005
Activists from the United States are heading to Brazil for the upcoming World Social Forum, determined to refute the widespread belief that their country has "gone Republican". They’re also in search of fresh inspiration for the fight against the exploitation of people, and natural resources. "With the re-election of Bush, a lot of people around the world washed their hands of the United States," said a member of Global Trade Watch.
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/ 16 September 2004
With HIV-infected children dying much faster than adults, doctors are scrambling to design new treatment protocols that work even in the most resource-poor settings. In Romania, which two years ago had more than half of all pediatric HIV/Aids cases in Europe, a new initiative has seen mortality rates reduced from 15% to 3%.