Over the last several months, IWPR reporter Sayed Yaqub Ibrahimi has made a major difference to the world’s perception of Afghanistan. The fearless reporter has written a series of reports exposing abuses committed by former militia commanders, or warlords, in the north of Afghanistan – a subject which has largely gone unreported in other media. […]
New Mexico Messiah Denies Child Abuse
Wayne Bent, aka Michael Travesser, aka the Messiah is suspected of having inappropriate contact with minors in the 70-person The Lord Our Righteousness compound in northeastern New Mexico. Bent denies the allegations, although he acknowledges having sex with two women in the sect. Two girls and one boy were taken from the compound after an […]
Is New Probe Into Organ-Trafficking Claims Justified?
By IWPR staff Allegations that Kosovo Albanian militants killed captives and sold their organs abroad have prompted calls for the claims to be investigated further, but IWPR enquiries suggest there is insufficient new evidence on which a new case could be based. Serbia has raised the temperature by opening an investigation, after the account of […]
LRA Prepares for War, not Peace
– By Katy Glassborow and Peter Eichstaedt in The Hague, with Emma Mutaizibwa in Kampala (AR No. 168, 24-Apr-08) The feared Ugandan rebel group, the Lord’s Resistance Army, LRA, is building up its military capacity at a time when it is supposed to be preparing to disarm under a peace agreement, IWPR can reveal. IWPR has […]
Hyejin Kim: A Praised Young Novelist Among GVO Authors
Global Voices celebrates, this month, Hyejin Kim‘s first anniversary as the GVO Korean Language editor. Settled now in Singapore after living in Korea, China, the United States and gaining her Rutgers University Ph. D. in Global Affairs, she works as a development adviser for the Singapore Korean School and as a technical interpreter facilitating exchange between Korean […]
FAMILY SERVICES:DO THEY REALLY HELP??
So much had been heard about so-called welfare services in some Western countries,& sadly,more often than not,we normally hear about horror stories of children being taken away from their families,of fathers being unlawfully accused of abuse & of mothers being seen as "mentally ill" & "unfit to parent kids" by these group of people. In […]
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