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A new report by a major US human rights group on the situation in Somalia criticises United States counter-terrorism policies.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
