When Yusuf Irwandi was elected governor of Aceh, he made a promise. After the Tsunami, the guerrilla leader of the separatist group Gam signed a peace agreement with the government, and laid out first on his political plan the end of the environmental destruction that over the years cleared half of the Sumatra forest. Irwandi called for a long-term moratorium of timber cutting and trade. The indonesian one is the third forest in the world, after the rainforest of Brazil and of the Congo Democratic Republic

Quito launches a campaign for the sake of humanity, but wants something in exchange

An actor with a presidential face: Fred Thompson enters the fray in the US campaign

Maoists haven't disbanded. They've just reinvented themselves, so bypassing the peace agreement

The Lebanese civil war started a month ago doesn't pass by Ain el Helwi's doors

According to the investigations of Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) and Save the Children Sweden, just in the city of Kandahar 14 cases of children sexual abuse have been reported recently, but at least the double remained undisclosed, due to the fear of the victims of being jailed or being beaten or killed by their parents

Between 460,000 and 600,000 women chose to undergo clandestine abortions, almost one for every child born. This is the Argentina of the Catholic Church, of de Verbo Incarnato, of a male chauvinist society and of narrow mindedness. In a country where abortion is illegal except for in two extreme cases, women who do not want a child resort to secrecy, and one in eight end up in hospital due to complications

The number of Bucharest's street children has decreased. Because they've grown older

The case against British government has been won. The inhabitants driven off by the Diego Garcia will finally get back home

Fighting continues in Saada, the government censors information and accuses Iran and Libya

A military analyst reveals big business in Pakistan's military command

The Ottawa Treaty is bearing fruits, but cluster bombs jeopardize the mine cleaning

Twenty-three dead and hundreds wounded in clashes for “tribal quotas”

The Minister of Food Security is condemned to death for corruption

The regime frees an activist as the European Union decides on sanctions