This summer, as I was sipping coffee with a friend in downtown Guatemala City, I was introduced to a news reporter who agreed to take me with him as he visited murder sites. The next day I arrived at…
Irom Chanu Sharmila on a hunger strike in Imphal, India, where she is force-fed through a tube in her nose. She arrived in an ambulance, thin and ghostly pale, a tube dangling from her nostril. Flanked by police…
Mbabane — Swaziland’s only university has reopened a month late for the new academic year, but the nearly 6,000 students are boycotting classes over cuts in their allowances, which the government says will only be paid in a few…
West Papuan activists are calling for international support in their bid for independence from Indonesia. Activists for a free West Papua (from left to right) Amatus Douw, Paula Makabory New Zealander Maire Ledbetter. Photo: Seraphin Kim Paula Makabory, a…
In Botswana, Bushmen are celebrating a victory in their long legal battle with the government. For the first time in nine years, Bushmen are drinking water from the Mothomelo borehole in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve. The government…
An apology for writing more frequent than the usual 2-3 messages a week but our hearts broke when we arrived to find that much of the Israeli uprooting of Palestinian olive trees was already done in Al-Walaja today. The old…
Saturday night, the Israeli protest movement will enter a critical stage, with a march through the streets of Tel Aviv leading to Kikar Hamedina, where at 9:30 P.M. a rally will take place. Saturday, 52 days after it…
Former dissident and now publisher of Poland’s biggest newspaper honoured for work for international cultural relations One of Poland‘s leading journalists and intellectuals has been awarded the Goethe medal in recognition of his «outstanding» contribution to the dialogue…
A 526km march brings attention to Evo Morales’ hypocritical stance on the environment and indigenous sovereignty. Indigenous Bolivians are marching over 500 km to La Paz to protest against the construction of a highway [AFP] «We can’t understand…
Plain clothed policemen arrest a protester (C) during an anti-China rally in Hanoi, Aug. 21, 2011. Vietnam may have crushed anti-China protests at home but the rare street demonstrations have stoked demands for greater freedom in the relatively…
