Last week the British High Court pronounced a memorable decision: every military man of H.B.M undertaking a campaign in foreign countries, will be bound over the Human Rights Act for the prisoner’s treatment - the British fundamental chart protecting the human rights. The Supreme Court justicesj rejected the point of the Ministry of Defence and the high court public prosecutor Lord Goldsmith, continue...
Moratorium. 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. continue...
Bangladesh’s army-backed interim government, in place since October 2006, revoked its decision to force into exile two among the most influential politicians of the country. We are referring to former women prime ministers, Sheikh Hasina, the Awami League party leader, and Khaleda Zia, head of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, or BNP. What happened. Last week Hasina, back from her holidays in the United States, continue...
The Golden Age of sex tourism is about to come to an end. In May a legislation on childhood and teenage will become effective and punishments for paedophiles will be very severe. Most of all Cartagena de Indias will sigh with relief. continue...
It took just a little more than sixty minutes to put an end to five years of civil war. Today, Ivory Coast is once again be a unified nation according to an agreement reached last week among army representatives, members of the Forces Nouvelles rebel group, French troops part of Operation Licorne, and United Nations peacekeepers. Civil war has cost the lives of some 4,000 people, continue...
The people of Tolata, a small village 30 km from Cochabamba, have a good reason to celebrate: their village is the first to have defeated illiteracy. Tolata is a rural settlement where people live off of farming and where the difficulties of survival are the order of the day. Thanks to the literacy program “Yo si puedo” promoted by the government of Evo Morales, and thanks to the aid of Cuban teachers and volunteers, continue...
A bill to reform the institution of laojiao, the conviction to many years (up to four) of hard labour with no trial for citizens considered counter-revolutionary or antisocial, will be presented at the National People Assembly next Monday in Beijing. The Chinese parliament wants to maintain the conviction, continue...
