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No Toilets or Air For "Forgotten Prisoners"

Betwa Sharma | Posted 10.29.2009 | World

Read More: Egypt, Syria, Uruguay, Jordan, Torture, Tunisia, Morocco, Toilets, United Nations, Corporal Punishment, United States, Special Rapporteur, Equitorial Guinea, China, Human Rights Violations, Montevideo, Iran, Amman, Alien Deportation, Russia, Israel, Falun Gong Camps, Togo, India, Saudia Arabia, Cuba, Algeria, Nigeria, Manfred Nowak, Immigration Laws, Toga, World News
Betwa Sharma

Prison conditions worldwide are worse than the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture could have imagined. Jails without air, toilets and food are not rare.

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Crude World: An Interview with Peter Maass

Adriana Dunn | Posted 10.07.2009 | Business

Read More: Oil-Dependency, Peter Maass, Fossil Fuels, Ida Tarbell, Paradox of Plenty, Nigeria, Crude World, Middle East, Crude World Book, Equitorial Guinea, Crude Oil, Business News
Adriana Dunn

By now, we all know the environmental costs of oil. But in his book, Crude World, author Peter Maass offers a first hand account of the social costs: poverty, war and corruption.

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