Peru’s 2006 Presidential Elections: Humala should get through round one
Recent polls by the polling firm APOYO (published on April 2), have suggested that Ollanta Humala has now risen to first place with around 30%, with Flores and Garcia Perez trailing with 26 and 22% respectively.
Sudan: Activists Call for Full Support for International Criminal Court
The Sudanese government continues to fight access to justice by victims of war crimes, genocide, and crimes against humanity, says a Sudanese nongovernmental organization (NGO) report released earlier this month.
DEMAND VOTING RIGHTS FOR KATRINA SURVIVORS
Katrina survivors demand and deserve the right to reconstruction, and first priority on jobs, job training and contracts.
Americans Should Take a Lesson from 'Sissy' French Youth
It seems to me the real question of the moment in the U.S. should be why young people here aren't taking to the streets along with their French counterparts to demand better treatment from employers and the government?
California Progressive Candidate Eyes Harman Seat
Marcy Winograd was so shocked to see US Rep. Jane Harman (D-CA) enable President Bush's illegal wiretapping program, that she decided to run for her seat this November.
CONGRESS MUST FACE REALITY - IMMIGRANTS WANT EQUALITY
Senators will pat themselves on the back this week, for agreeing to their most pro-corporate, anti-immigrant bill in decades. Tens of thousands of people may be forced to leave the US as a result.
I-L-L-E-G-A-L SPELLS APARTHEID
Wasn't it Howard Dean who predicted last year that 2006 would be the year that conservatives would use the issue of immigration as a subterfuge to distract the nation from focusing on the administration's incompetence and immoral and illegal behavior?
CIA Torture Flights are Crimes Against Humanity, says Human Rights Group
he Amnesty report notes that rendition flights 'are crimes under international law, involving multiple human rights violations. In certain circumstances,' the report reads, 'they are crimes against humanity, and can be prosecuted in international criminal proceedings.'
Sudan: Khartoum Accelerates War on Humanitarian Aid in Darfur
Jan Egeland, the UN's chief humanitarian official, was this week brazenly and contemptuously denied access to Darfur by leaders of Khartoum's National Islamic Front ('National Congress Party').
Shocking Diebold Conflict of Interest Revelations Further Taint Ohio's Elections
Ohio Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell has revealed that he has owned stock in the Diebold voting machine company... Diebold's GEMS election software was used in about half of Ohio counties in the 2004 election.
