BANGKOK, Thailand -- The world's most famous political prisoner, Burma's Nobel Peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, will not be celebrating a happy birthday on Sunday (June 19) when she turns 60, because she is locked under house arrest....
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18 June 2005
Every year on the 3rd of May journalists all over the world celebrate
World Press Freedom Day to reiterate their commitments to fundamental
principles of press freedom and freedom of expression. As internal and
cross-border conflict...
08 June 2005
WASHINGTON -Human Rights Campaign President Joe Solmonese made the
following statement today in reaction to Pope Benedict's anti-gay
comments regarding marriage. In talking about marriage equality the Pope
referenced "pseudo-matrimonies"...
28 May 2005
In Guatemala sexual harassment is not illegal. In El Salvador and Honduras hundreds of thousands of children work illegally. The minimum wage for a Nicaraguan manufacturer worker is $55.74 a month, less than what a U.S. union worker with a...
24 April 2005
Telephone interview by Bernie Dwyer for
www.cubadebate.cu with Professor Noam Chomsky of the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 28th August
2003.
[Bernie Dwyer] A couple of...
[Bernie Dwyer] A couple of...
21 April 2005
On Jan. 11 Guatemalan President Oscar Berger spoke to a group of reporters in Guatemala City about ongoing protests against a World Bank mining project in the northern part of the country. He said that his government had to establish law...