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Psychologists Under Fire For Role In Torture

Inter Press Service | Posted 06.07.2009 | World

Read More: American Psychiatric Association, Psycholgists, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, Guantanamo Torture, Bush Torture, Gitmo Torture, Gitmo Psychologists, Gitmo, Torture, Inter Press Service, World News

By William Fisher NEW YORK, May 7 (IPS) - A leading human rights organisation is charging that an American Psychological Association (APA) task fo...

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African Women Hit Hardest By Global Economic Crisis

Inter Press Service | Kudzai Makombe | Posted 06.06.2009 | World

Read More: African Women, Global Financial Crisis, Foreign Affairs, Global Economic Crisis, Advocacy, Africa, Inter Press Service, World News

Kudzai Makombe interviews MWILA CHIGAGA, ILO Regional Senior Gender Specialist ADDIS ABABA, May 6 (IPS) - The global financial crisis is on every...

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China Swine Flu Response Criticized As "Unjustified"

Inter Press Service | Posted 06.05.2009 | World

Read More: China Flu Response, China Sars, Swine Flu Outbreak, China Flu, Swine Flu Pandemic, Foreign Affairs, Health, Swine Flu, Flu Pandemic, Mexico Swine Flu, Flu, Swine Flu Mexico, China, Advocacy, Inter Press Service, World News

By Antoaneta Bezlova BEIJING, May 5 (IPS) - Rebuked in the past for its sluggish response and attempts to cover up the 2003 outbreak of severe acut...

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Dengue Fever Spreading, Worsening In Latin America

Inter Press Service | Marcela Valente | Posted 05.22.2009 | World

Read More: Dengue Fever, Latin America, Pan-American Health Organization, Brazil, Health, Foreign Affairs, Paraguay, Argentina, Bolivia, Dengue, Advocacy, Inter Press Service, Buenos Aires, Rio De Janeiro-Brazil, World News

BUENOS AIRES, Apr 21 (Tierramérica) - The population's susceptibility to suffering more severe forms of dengue is worrying health experts, as the e...

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South Africa Election Campaign Ignores Nation's Xenophobic Troubles

Inter Press Service | Tiny Magija | Posted 05.18.2009 | World

Read More: Africa Refugees, Human Rights, South Africa Xenophobia, South Africa Constitution, South Africa Elections, South Africa Refugees, Xenophobia, Africa, South Africa Government, Inter Press Service, South Africa, South Africa Human Rights, South Africa Election, World News

JOHANNESBURG, Apr 17 (IPS) - In May 2008, South Africa was rocked by the worst xenophobic attacks that the country has ever seen. Less than a year l...

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Abu Ghraib Victims May Sue: US Court Ruling

Inter Press Service | William Fisher | Posted 05.17.2009 | World

Read More: Pentagon, Us Federal Court, Abu Ghraib Victims, Abu Ghraib Lawsuit, Caci, Abu Ghraib Torture, Abu Ghraib Photos, Iraq, Abu Ghraib Detainees, Torture, Abu Ghraib, Abu Ghraib Abuse, Inter Press Service, World News

NEW YORK, Apr 16 (IPS) - In a ruling that could have widespread implications for government contractors overseas, a federal court has concluded that...

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Women Make Up Majority Of Chile's Community Leaders

Inter Press Service | Daniela Estrada | Posted 05.11.2009 | World

Read More: Chile, Chilean Community Leaders, Foreign Affairs, Chilean Women, Chilean Women Community Leaders, Chilean Shantytowns, Santiago, Advocacy, Inter Press Service, World News

SANTIAGO, Apr 10 (IPS) - Over 70 percent of community leaders in Chilean shanty towns are women. Their average age is 42, and most of them do not id...

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Clean Water Costing A Fortune For Peru's Poor

Inter Press Service | Angel Paez | Posted 05.10.2009 | World

Read More: Peru Poor, Peru, Latin America, Foreign Affairs, Clean Water, Peru Water, Peru Poor Pay for Water, Advocacy, Inter Press Service, World News

LOMAS DE MANCHAY, Peru, Apr 9 (IPS) - In Lomas de Manchay, an area of slum-covered hills outside of the Peruvian capital that is home to 50,000 peo...

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Cluster Bombs In The Balkans, 10 Years Later, Still Threaten 160,000 People

Inter Press Service | Vesna Peric Zimonjic | Posted 05.09.2009 | World

Read More: Cluster Bomb Treaty, Norwegian People's Aid, Cluster Bombs, Kosovo, Foreign Affairs, Balkans, Serbia, Cluster Bomb Ban, NATO Cluster Bomb Treaty, Advocacy, Inter Press Service, World News

BELGRADE, Apr 8 (IPS) - An estimated 160,000 people in Serbia are still in danger from thousands of unexploded cluster bombs, ten years after the N...

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Avigdor Lieberman: Already A Problem For Obama

Inter Press Service | Helena Cobban | Posted 05.04.2009 | World

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Obama Lieberman, Barack Obama, Egypt Lieberman, Lieberman Annapolis, Annapolis, Avigdor Lieberman, Benjamin Netanyahu, Foreign Affairs, Gaza War, Yisrael Beitenu, Israel, Lieberman Problem, Obama Lieberman Problem, Obama's Lieberman Problem, Inter Press Service, World News

WASHINGTON, Apr 3 (IPS) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government was sworn in Tuesday - just one day later his foreign minister, Avi...

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Uzi Arad, Netanyahu Aide, Visa In Question, Posing Early 'Test Of Wills' For New Governments

Inter Press Service | Stephen Green | Posted 05.03.2009 | World

Read More: Uzi Arad, George MItchell, Saudi Arabia, Charles Freeman, Chas Freeman, George W. Bush, Hillary Clinton, Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel, Barack Obama, Binyamin Netanyahu, Inter Press Service, World News

WASHINGTON, Apr 2 (IPS) - The first official test of wills between the administration of U.S. President Barack Obama and the new Likud-led governme...

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Cuba Launches Anti-Homophobia Campaign

Inter Press Service | Patricia Grogg | Posted 04.30.2009 | World

Read More: Anti-Homophobia, Foreign Affairs, Cuba Anti-Homphobia Campaign, Homophobia, Cuba Gays, Cuban Gay Community, Cuba, Advocacy, Homophobe, Gay Rights, Gays, Havana-Cuba, Inter Press Service, World News

HAVANA, Mar 30 (IPS) - You could hear a pin drop and uncomfortable glances went round the room when the moderator of the debate invited contribution...

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Afghan War Rationale Questioned By Some Key Strategists: Analysis

Inter Press Service | Gareth Porter | Posted 04.28.2009 | World

Read More: Ken Pollack, Obama Afghanistan, Afghanistan War, Daniel Byman, Afghanistan, Obama Pak-Afghan Plan, Pakistan, Ken Pollack Afghanistan, Obama Pakistan, Taliban, Kenneth Pollack Afghanistan, Kenneth Pollack, Col. Hammes, Al Qaeda, War Wire, Gareth Porter, Col T X Hammes, Inter Press Service, World News

WASHINGTON, Mar 28 (IPS) - The argument for deeper U.S. military commitment to the Afghan War invoked by President Barack Obama in his first major p...

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Durban II: U.S. Condemned For Boycott Of Global Racism Conference

Inter Press Service | Haider Rizvi | Posted 04.26.2009 | World

Read More: Anti-Semitism, Durban Ii Obama, Barack Obama, Anti-Racism Conference, United Nations, Durban, Racism, Un Racism Conference, Israel, Durban Ii, Ajamu Baraka Durban Process, Inter Press Service, World News

UNITED NATIONS, Mar 26 (IPS) - Amid calls for Washington to increase its engagement with the international community, U.S.-based rights groups and c...

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Most US Jews Open To Palestinian Unity Gov't That Includes Hamas: Poll

Inter Press Service | Jim Lobe | Posted 04.25.2009 | World

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Palestine, Jews, Foreign Affairs, Fatah, Hamas, Us Jews, J Street, J-Street, Palestinian Unity Talks, Israel, American Jews, Advocacy, Religion, Inter Press Service, World News

WASHINGTON, Mar 25 (IPS) - Contrary to the views of the likely incoming right-wing government of Israel, most U.S. Jews favour peace negotiations wi...

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Combat Brigades Will Stay in Iraq Despite Obama's Vow

Inter Press Service | Gareth Porter | Posted 04.25.2009 | World

Read More: Combat Brigades, Obama Iraq Withdrawal, Barack Obama, Iraq War, War Wire, Brigade Combat Teams, Obama Iraq, Gareth Porter, Foreign Affairs, Obama Iraq Withdrawal Plan, Iraq, Obama Iraq Combat Troops, Bcts, Despite Obama's Vow, Combat Brigades Will, Obama Iraq Bct, Inter Press Service, World News

WASHINGTON, Mar 25 (IPS) - Despite President Barack Obama's statement at Camp LeJeune, North Carolina Feb. 27 that he had "chosen a timeline that wi...

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US Immigration Law Used To Censor Foreign Scholars: ACLU

Inter Press Service | William Fisher | Posted 04.24.2009 | World

Read More: Aclu, Obama Justice Department, President Obama, Eric Holder, Obama Administration, Immigration, Justice Department, Immigration Law, American Civil Liberties Union, Barack Obama, Foreign Scholars, Inter Press Service, Censorship, Hillary Clinton, Tariq Ramadan, World News

A leading legal rights group charged Tuesday that the Barack Obama Justice Department is using immigration law to censor debate by selectively barri...

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McKiernan Gets Control of Disputed U.S. Raids In Afghanistan

Inter Press Service | Gareth Porter | Posted 04.20.2009 | World

Read More: David Petraeus, Mckiernan, Centcom, General Mckiernan, Afghanistan, War Wire, Afghanistan Raids, Gareth Porter, McKiernan Afghanistan, McKiernan Us Raids, General Petraeus, David McKiernan, Afghanistan Civilian Casualties, Inter Press Service, World News

WASHINGTON, Mar 20 (IPS) - U.S. Special Operations forces in Afghanistan, whose commando raids and airstrikes against suspected Taliban targets have...

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Forgive Us Our Trespasses

Crossover Dreams | Posted 04.16.2009 | World

Read More: Ips, Immigration, Migration, Undocumented Immigrants, Inter Press Service, Crime, Illegal Aliens, Mexico, Illegal Immigrants, Crossover Dreams, World News
Crossover Dreams

Why do some brand those who enter or stay in the U.S. without proper papers as "illegals"? The usual answer is: "They broke the law." In this sense, though, most of us are "illegals" one way or another.

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Peru: Award-Winning Film Exposes Rape As Weapon Of War

Inter Press Service | Milagros Salazar | Posted 04.14.2009 | World

Read More: The Milk of Sorrow, Womens Rights, Peru, Latin America, Lima, Film, Peru War, Rape War Weapon, La Teta Asustada, Berlin Film Festival, Inter Press Service, World News

LIMA, Mar 11 (IPS) - The film La Teta Asustada/The Milk of Sorrow, the big winner at the Berlin Film Festival, drives home the brutal effects of Per...

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Iran's Anti-Israel Rhetoric Aimed at Arab Opinion

Inter Press Service | Gareth Porter | Posted 04.14.2009 | World

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Iran Obama, Arab-Israeli Conflict, Iran, Benjamin Netanyahu, Iran United States, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Israel, Iran Israel, Iran Arab Public Opinion, Binyamin Netanyahu, Iran Hamas, Inter Press Service, World News

WASHINGTON, Mar 9 (IPS) - After Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called in October 2005 for an end to the state of Israel, Israeli leaders bega...

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Military Dominance In Mideast Proven A Costly Myth

Inter Press Service | Gareth Porter | Posted 04.14.2009 | World

Read More: Afghanistan War, Centcom, Pakistan, Iran, Khyber Pass, Iraq Sectarian Violence, Odierno, David Petraeus, Bush Administration, Barack Obama, Us Military Strength, Ray Odierno, Iraq War, War Wire, Gareth Porter, Afghan Supply Route, Inter Press Service, World News

WASHINGTON, Mar 5 (IPS) - The arguments for maintaining a major U.S. combat force in Iraq at least through 2011, escalating U.S. military involvemen...

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Zimbabwe's Women Traders Keep Economy Afloat

Inter Press Service | By Tonderai Kwidini | Posted 04.14.2009 | World

Read More: Zimbabwe Cross-Border Traders Association, South Africa, Zimbabwe Women Traders, Zimbabwe, Cross-Border Traders in Zimbabwe, Africa, Zimbabwe Trade, Botswana, Zimbabwe Economy, Harare, ZImbabwe Crisis, Robert Mugabe, Inter Press Service, World News

Her small tattered book is full of lists of orders for goods such as beer, maize-meal and chemicals. On another page are addresses and phone numbers...

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Russia, Ukraine Locked In New Gas War

Inter Press Service | By Kester Kenn Klomegah | Posted 04.14.2009 | World

Read More: Russia, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, Europe, European Commission, Belarus Prime Minister Sergey Sidorsky, Ukraine, Gazprom, South Stream Gas Pipeline, Russia-Ukraine Gas War, Gazprom CEO Alexey Miller, Russia Gas Pipelines, Inter Press Service, World News

MOSCOW, Mar 5 (IPS) - The Ukraine-Russia gas dispute has boosted plans for construction of the South Stream and North Stream gas pipelines that woul...

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Migrants R Us

Crossover Dreams | Posted 04.02.2009 | World

Read More: Statue of Liberty, Free Trade Agreements, Mexico, History, Italy, Immigration, Central America, Inter Press Service, Ips, World News
Crossover Dreams

This is the inaugural post of a new series. We hope that this will broaden into a forum where people can share insights about international movements of people and the economic, social and political issues surrounding them.

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