Sarajevo seminar attempts to draw lessons from different countries’ approaches to identifying the victims of rights abuses. By Lara Nettelfield in Sarajevo When the call to prayer sounded at 10:45pm on a balmy Sarajevo night, Muhammad Jafar of Banda Aceh knew all of the words flowing from the city’s mosques. But he was in Bosnia […]
African Union Urged to Act on Zimbabwe
Analysts say only regional states have the power to end escalating crisis, but it is still unclear what measures they can agree on. By Caroline Tosh in London As President Robert Mugabe arrived in Egypt to attend an African Union, AU, summit, calls for the grouping to take resolute action on Zimbabwe are growing ever […]
How Safe Are Babies in Bassinets?
More than 45 percent of infants between zero and two months old sleep in bassinets, but experts know little about bassinet safety. In fact, bassinets are not yet subject to any government safety standards. But because bassinet use has gone up considerably in recent years, researchers from the Children’s National Medical Center in Washington, D.C. […]
Virginia ‘Bride’ Turns Out to Be a Man
RICHMOND, Va. (June 23) – The couple walked into a Norfolk courthouse on a spring day, exchanged a few words, and within 10 minutes, were seemingly husband and wife. It was an unremarkable ceremony – except that several weeks later, officials realized the shapely bride might not have been a woman. Now authorities in Virginia, […]
Kazaks Struggle With Oil and Food Prices
Government’s attempt to hold fuel prices down may be too little, too late. By Daur Dosybiev in Almaty (RCA No. 546, 30-May-08) A new ban on exports of petroleum products is designed to stabilise the domestic economy, struggling with inflation across the board and especially with soaring food prices. However, analysts say the measure […]
Ethiopia bans its citizens from seeking jobs in Lebanon.
Beirut / Addis Ababa — Celebrating Labor Day on Thursday, Ethiopia has officially banned all travel of its citizens to Beirut in search of jobs. The Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs disclosed. Ethiopia passed the bill after it made a detailed study of the human rights violations and domestic violence Ethiopian migrants face behind […]
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