Authorities in the Houston area and along the Southeast Texas Gulf Coast ordered hundreds of thousands of people to evacuate Thursday as Hurricane Ike lumbered toward the coast and threatened to grow even stronger. Traffic was building on roadways leading away from low-lying areas in Galveston County, and officials urged residents to finish storm preparations […]
African MSM & Sex Workers Voice Concerns and Hopes at AIDS 2008
Posted by Lova Rakotomalala to Global Voices Online The AIDS 2008 conference (IAC) in Mexico City drew to a close on August, 8th, 2008. The theme of the conference was “universal action now” and judging from the heavy international attendance, the focus on marginalized communities and the daily newsletter aptly called “Global Voice”, it delivered […]
African Development Bank For AID Delivery Reform
African Development Bank, ADB, board’s committee for development effectiveness, CODE, underscored that the scope of the application of the Paris Declaration, PD, principles should govern all aid flows. This includes aid from new and emerging donors as well as all resources mobilised internally. Negatu Makonnen policy economist with ADB, said the proposed Third High Level […]
Russian Blogger’s Guilty Verdict Raises Free Speech issues
Posted by Veronica Khokhlova to Global Voices Online On July 7, Savva Terentyev, 22, a Russian blogger and musician from Syktyvkar, received a one-year suspended jail sentence for a comment (RUS) he posted on Feb. 15, 2007, on the blog of a local journalist Boris Suranov. Here is a rough translation of the comment: I […]
Dowry Law Review likely for Relief to Husband’s Relatives
Section 498A of The Indian Penal Code (IPC) is playing havoc with the in-laws family of the wife. The bride’s family and a section of Law and order authority (Police) grossly misuses Sec 498A in case of Marital disputes. Dowry law (Dowry Prevention Act 1961) is also skewed and does not punish the payer of […]
Crime Without Punishment
By Aleksandar Roknic in Belgrade "I don’t remember a day without beating and terror. We were in impossible conditions, tortured physically and mentally." Zoran Sangut, head of the NGO Vukovar 1991, last month spoke of the suffering he endured in prisoner-of-war camps run by the Yugoslav army, JNA, in Serbia during the early Nineties. His […]
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