Myanmar 2012 © Greg Constantine A young man co-infected with HIV and TB at MSF's clinic in Yangon. BANGKOK/NEW YORK, February 22, 2012—Tens of thousands of people living with HIV...
Joe Belliveau is an operations manager at Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). This article originally appeared in Thailand's The Nation newspaper. While inter...
Myanmar 2012 © Greg Constantine Patients wait in the reception area at MSF's clinic in Yangon. Special Report Download Report The UN estimates that over the last few yea...
From the streets of the Bronx to the suburbs of the Nation's Capital, you never have to look hard to find victims of the bias and corruption delivered by the drug war.
Headline Title: Saudi Arabia: Trial of Riyadh protester ‘utterly unwarranted’ 22 February 2012...
Fluctuating water levels in the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, Iraq’s primary sources of surface water, will continue to mar agricultural development unless more equitable water access rights are...
The rapidly growing populations of the Middle East and securing reliable and sustainable supplies of food to support that growth have loomed since the region's vast oil and gas wealth was discovered d...
Headline Title: Dominican Republic: End police abuse to comply with UN treaty 22 February 2012...
Tweet Widget Facebook Like Yemen’s incoming president, Abd Rabu Mansur Hadi, should take immediate steps to ensure Yemen’s transition to the rights-r...
Kazuya Tarukawa, 36, left a secure job in the Japanese capital to tend to his family's organic farm located 100 km away from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactor.
Oxfam calls on governments meeting at the London Somalia Conference tomorrow to develop a coherent strategy towards the country that shifts away from the emphasis on short term security and anti-terro...
The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government recently launched a harsh crackdown on illegal Afghan immigrants who have been pouring across the border into Pakistan, going so far as to request federal governmen...
The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government recently launched a harsh crackdown on illegal Afghan immigrants who have been pouring across the border into Pakistan, going so far as to request federal governmen...
Putting the interests of Somali people first Author: Ellie Kemp and Ben Murphy, Oxfam policy adviso...
Former Miami police chief John Timoney claims that while tear gas may be "distasteful," it's not really harmful. He should take a closer look at what's happening in Bahrain.
Files ECRI publishes six new reports on the fight against racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia, antisemitism and intolerance in Iceland,...
Mr Doros Polycarpou, Executive Director of KISA, is being prosecuted on charges of rioting, following tragic events at the Rainbow Festival on 5 November 2010, in Larnaca, Cyprus. Participants of a ra...
Files As the number of domestic workers flooding into Jordan from Indonesia, Philippines and Sri Lanka reaches 140,000 annually, non-governmen...
22 February 2012 Casualties The Cairo University Hospitals alone received some 269 injured people during the protests as well as seven of the 11 deaths that took place in the capital...
Headline Title: Egypt: Systematic failure to rein in security forces 22 February 2012...
Nisreen Awwad moves closer to the microphone as she signs off to her listeners, the words "Nisaa FM: music, change, success" displayed prominently over her left shoulder.
CAR 2011 © MSF MSF and COGES staff at the MSF hospital in Maitikoulou. Doctors Without Borders/ Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has handed over the management of a hospital in...
Yemen 2010 © Agnes Montanari An MSF staff member tends to a wounded Yemeni patient. In southern Yemen, where political tensions and clashes continue, Doctors Without Borders/Médecin...
Headline Title: Israeli decision to release Palestinian in April 'insufficient' 21 Februa...
The United Nations is warning of a new food crisis in Africa, with droughts and poor harvests leaving more than 10 million people in need of assistance. Niger, Burkino Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania, Ca...
At a time of domestic austerity, why is the government using up its resources on trying to bring peace to a country widely dismissed as a "failed state", which has already seen more than 15 attempts t...
As the number of domestic workers flooding into Jordan from Indonesia, Philippines and Sri Lanka reaches 140,000 annually, non-governmental organisations on the ground are working hard to protect mi...
Tweet Widget Facebook Like Authorities in and around Misrata are preventing thousands of people from returning to the villages of Tomina and Kararim and have fai...
Zahlreiche Organisationen und Einzelpersonen hatten sich beim Hessischen Rundfunk gegen eine...
Files Filipina Teresita Herrera Blanco has worked in Hong Kong for more than 16 years, cooking, cleaning and babysitting as a domestic helper...
Die Schweizerische Flüchtlingshilfe SFH beurteilt die heute publik gemachten Vorschläge der SVP zur laufenden Asylgesetzrevision als untauglich und teilweise auch verfassungs- und völkerrechtswidri...
L’Organisation suisse d’aide aux réfugiés OSAR considère les propositions rendues publiques par l’UDC relatives à la révision en cours de la Loi sur l’asile comme inadaptées et en partie...
Headline Title: Campaigners to ‘jam faxes’ in support of Colombia peace community 21 February 2...
Pierre was in the next-door country of Dominican Republic when the January 2010 earthquake destroyed half of Port-au-Prince and killed at least 200,000 of his fellow Haitians, including his wife and h...
Die grosse Vimentis-Umfrage von letzter Woche offenbarte ein starkes Unbehagen der Bevölkerung gegenüber der Personenfreizügigkeit mit der EU. Bundesrätin Simonetta Sommaruga zu den Risiken von Na...
Fin décembre 2011, 1 772 279 ressortissants étrangers vivaient en Suisse. La plupart d’entre eux (1 147 185 personnes) provenaient d’Etats membres de l’UE-27 ou de l’AELE. En 2011, leur effe...
Environ 10 % des citoyens suisses – 703 640 personnes – vivent dans un autre pays. Comme l’indique la statistique 2011 des Suisses de l’étranger, la grande majorité (61,85 %, ou 435 203 pers...
Mit 703‘640 Auslandschweizern leben rund zehn Prozent der schweizerischen Staatsangehörigen im Ausland – der weitaus grösste Teil davon (61,85%) in Europa. Dies ist der kürzlich fertiggestellte...
Ende Dezember 2011 lebten insgesamt 1’772’279 Ausländerinnen und Ausländer in der Schweiz. Die meisten von ihnen (1’147’185) stammen aus den EU-27/EFTA-Staaten. Ihr Bestand s...
For decades, people inside and outside the ACLU have tried to get its board to moderate its campaign finance views, and new facts on the ground give them more ammunition.
Conservatives are going wildly off-message when it comes to the fight over contraception.
The large majority of migrants in the private sector often end up in the "least desirable housing", according to a new report from the Housing and Migration Network. Here, John Perry, Policy Adviser a...
In an opinion released today, the Commission concludes that live-in caregivers, seasonal agricultural workers and other foreign temporary low-skilled workers are victims of systemic discrimination on...
Nabi, a 20-years old Moroccan, is lying on the ground. He looks dead. Twenty minutes earlier we were sitting in the recovered-from-garbage chairs and furniture, smoking cigarettes and chatting in one...
The number of journalists imprisoned worldwide reached a 15-year high in 2011, driven by repressive states seeking to choke the flow of information.
Tweet Widget Facebook Like Somalia’s warring parties have all failed to protect Somali children from the fighting or serving in their forces, Human Rights Watc...
Each time a new measure that the city of Chicago is preparing for the coming NATO and G8 summits is unveiled, the tension in the city ratchets up a notch.
A meeting to make links with organisations in Peckham to help build a movement against the detention and deportation of migrants.
Headline Title: Blog: One family’s dramatic escape from Syria 20 February 2012...
As Kenya struggles to recover from the massive East Africa drought of 2011, school feeding is playing a critical role. (..) Charles Njeru of WFP Kenya says, "With additional funding we could do much m...
Hundreds of thousands of Southern Sudanese who have spent most of their lives in the north now find themselves straddling two worlds, their lives upended by a tumultuous border that recently split the...
More than 20,000 Malians are now in the border region of Tillaberi, many in areas where villagers are facing severe food insecurity and malnutrition. (..) Niger’s ‘hungry season’, usually April...
A great humanitarian catastrophe and vicious ethnic cleansing is unfolding here in the remote and impoverished region where Sudan and South Sudan come together. (..) While the Sudanese government is t...
With tears now rolling down her cheeks Dije says, "I don't have any milk. I haven't eaten lately. (..) She knows what every breastfeeding mother knows -- if you don't eat, you don't make milk. Bu...
Le collectif Droit de rester, le CollectifVaudois de Soutien aux Sans-Papiers (CVSSP) et le Collectif de soutien et dedéfense des Sans-Papiers de La Côte appellent à manifester mercredi 22 février...
Bern. Ende Dezember 2011 lebten insgesamt 1'772'279 Ausländerinnen und Ausländer in der Schweiz. Die meisten von ihnen (1'147'185) stammen aus den EU-27/EFTA-Staaten. Ihr Bestand stieg 2011 mit 4,1...
Bern. Bundesrätin Simonetta Sommaruga, die Vorsteherin des Eidgenössischen Justiz- und Polizeidepartements (EJPD), hat am Montag Ivica Dacic, den Innenminister Serbiens zu einem Arbeitsbesuch empfan...
Nearly a year after the Barack Obama administration began negotiations with the government of Afghan President Hamid Karzai on a U.S. military presence in Afghanistan beyond 2014, both sides confir...
Musician Baaba Maal visited Mauritania where a food crisis now affects one in four people across the country. Oxfam is calling for urgent interventions to avoid the worst over the coming months, as we...