Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Sunday, October 26, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Beena Sarwar KARACHI, Oct 26 (IPS) – Zulfiqar Ali, 38, has been snatched from the gallows once again after Pakistan’s president agreed to give his relatives more time to negotiate clemency from the families of two [...]
YEMEN: Govt Holding More Than 1,000 Political Prisoners
October 24, 2008 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Friday, October 24, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Zainab Mineeia WASHINGTON, Oct 24 (IPS) – A new report by Human Rights Watch (HRW) urges Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh to launch an independent commission to investigate arbitrary arrests and disappearances and to hold those [...]
RIGHTS-SIERRA LEONE: Reparations Stretched Thin
October 23, 2008 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Thursday, October 23, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Mohamed Fofanah FREETOWN, Oct 23 (IPS) – ”Eight years ago my husband threw his haversack on his back and bade us goodbye. My two kids and I came out of the house and watched him leave. [...]
RIGHTS-CAMBODIA: Khmer Rouge Trials Bare Sexual Abuse
September 8, 2008 By
Global Politics Online - IPS Monday, September 08, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Andrew Nette PHNOM PENH, Sep 8 (IPS) – In a move that could break the silence around sexual violence under the Khmer Rouge, a 68 year-old transgender woman has became the first person to submit a complaint [...]
RIGHTS: Swazi Law And Custom Under Pressure
September 6, 2008 By
Global Geopolitics – Global News Blog – Global Politics Online – IPS Saturday, September 06, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Mantoe Phakathi MBABANE, Sep 6 (IPS) – When the women’s movement in the southern African kingdom of Swaziland took to the streets in August to challenge what they called extravagance [...]
