Bottles, stones and smoke bomb hurled during English Defence League demonstration in Bradford

Seven killed in new Uighur attack

Fears for future of Afghanistan as hardliners stone couple to death for being in love

MEXICO: Supreme Court Upholds Non-Discrimination Against Gays - IPS ipsnews.net

MEXICO: Supreme Court Upholds Non-Discrimination Against Gays - IPS ipsnews.net

Oil field discovered in Afghanistan

"International Burn the Koran Day" -- Gainesville, Florida

ARGENTINA: Transvestite Magazine Fights Media Stereotypes - IPS ipsnews.net

ARGENTINA: Transvestite Magazine Fights Media Stereotypes - IPS ipsnews.net

Land rights: 100,000 people will march

POLITICS-RWANDA: "Climate of Repression" as Voting Concludes - IPS ipsnews.net

POLITICS-RWANDA: "Climate of Repression" as Voting Concludes - IPS ipsnews.net

MIDEAST: Homeless Take On Israeli Forces - IPS ipsnews.net

MIDEAST: Homeless Take On Israeli Forces - IPS ipsnews.net

Rwanda election set to return Kagame as president

The man credited with rebuilding the country after genocide looks to be heading for landslide victory as country votes

World Focus: Race issue gives Sarkozy an easy route to boost support

Taliban execute pregnant woman in Afghanistan

Facing life in jail, the woman who dared to take on Paul Kagame

Stability in Rwanda is based on political repression, opposition leader Victoire Ingabire tells Daniel Howden

Citizen Rights Don't Apply to Roma

Rwanda: Kagame's power struggle

President Kagame's pre-election crackdown is not about repressing the opposition – it's aimed at his own party

More than 70 countries make being gay a crime

People are being killed for their sexual orientation, despite progress made by some nations, including Britain, to eliminate prejudice

Children found starving in rural Australia

Stallone joins US invasion of French ghettoes

HIV-positive Kenyans Need Tribunal to Address Rights Violations

Social Fallout of Atomic Bombings Hounds Survivors

Police filmed dragging women and babies during protest

How to counter rape as a weapon of war

Increasing pressure on African men to discuss gender equality could lessen the incentive to use rape as a war weapon, according to new research from Uganda

Wary Rwandans choose strongman Paul Kagame – and peace – over democracy

World Focus: Surrender to al-Shabaab may be first step to victory for Somalia

Shocking Right-Wing Homophobia Caught on Tape By Courage Campaign

This summer, NOM -- an anti-gay marriage group -- took their hate on the road. The Courage Campaign has captured their bigotry on camera.

Hundreds killed in Darfur fighting

Issues of Gay Rights & Gay Marriage

Oil Leak -- Venezuela

Chronic Oil Leaks Sully Lake Maracaibo, Livelihoods

Gay Rights

LGBT Groups Slow to Gain Formal Recognition at UN

Wikileaks reveals Afghan civilian deaths

Arizona and Immigration...what's next?

Immigrants' Rights Groups: Lawsuits Against Arizona Just the Beginning of Long Campaign for Justice

What the Tea Parties Miss: Some Regulation Is Key to a Well-Functioning Society

Unique Community Leads on Gender Equality

Human Rights Violations

KGB Back in Fashion in Ukraine

Iranian youth sentenced to death accused of homosexual relations

My Name Is Ed. I'm a Racist

"I'm a Racist" - Part II

UN celebrates a 'watershed day' for women

Don't Minimise' Impacts of Amazon Oil Spill

Gender Meet Ends on High Note with New "U.N. Women"

Calls for Equality to be Written into New Constitution

Google to Add Pay to Cover a Tax for Same-Sex Benefits

Death by Stoning for Adultery

Iran: Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani faces imminent death by stoning

Saving Lives or Acquiring Minerals

The price of unconditional support for Congo's regime

The suspicious death of Floribert Chebeya has cast a dark shadow over the country's 50th anniversary of independence

International Genocide Tribunal

Peter Erlinder arrest a blow to international law

Rwanda's detention of a defence lawyer has undermined the basic authority of the international genocide tribunal

Lifetime of Tracking Killings Ends in Activist’s Own

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/28/world/africa/28congo.html?ref=africa

Right-to-Know Law Gives India’s Poor a Lever

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/29/world/asia/29india.html?hp

Calling for Accountability on the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture

http://www.truth-out.org/calling-accountability-international-day-support-victims-torture60786

5 Million Iraqis Killed, Maimed, Tortured, Displaced—Think That Bothers War Boosters?

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/5_million_iraqis_killed_maimed_tortured_displaced_20100623/

A Reform Movement by and for Undocumented People - IPS ipsnews.net

A Reform Movement by and for Undocumented People - IPS ipsnews.net

U.N. Chief Warns Big Business to Play by Ethical Rules - IPS ipsnews.net

U.N. Chief Warns Big Business to Play by Ethical Rules - IPS ipsnews.net

URUGUAY: Río de la Plata Under Land-Based Attack - IPS ipsnews.net

URUGUAY: Río de la Plata Under Land-Based Attack - IPS ipsnews.net

BOLIVIA: 69-Year-Old Native Leader Heads 1,500-Km March - IPS ipsnews.net

BOLIVIA: 69-Year-Old Native Leader Heads 1,500-Km March - IPS ipsnews.net

In the Shadow of the Serengeti

http://www.thenation.com/article/shadow-serengeti

COLOMBIA: Who Cares About the Victims of Forced Displacement?

http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=50158

UGANDA: Fugitives in Their Own Country

http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=50162

Threat to Toxic Waste Victims' Compensation

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/threat-to-toxic-waste-victims-compensation-1876397.html

CHILE: Steering to the Right

http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=50035

After the Quake, Depend on Women

http://news.newamericamedia.org/news/view_article.html?article_id=7b06137c2c1eb819b74036115ba8434b

BRAZIL: 'Colonisation Made Us Poor,' Say Indigenous Peoples

http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=49999

U.N. Condemns Land Grabs in Native Territories

http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=49986

The love that still dare not speak its name

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/the-love-that-still-dare-not-speak-its-name-1863913.html

DEVELOPMENT-CAMBODIA: Minority Languages Face Extinction

http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=49958

DEVELOPMENT: China’s ‘Ant Tribe’: Between Dreams and Reality

http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=49960

Bolivian Women’s Right to Land Thwarted by Patriarchal Traditions

http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=49967

SWITZERLAND: Police Smash School for Undocumented Migrants

http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=49924

Who will pay for Amazon's 'Chernobyl'?

http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/green-living/who-will-pay-for-amazons-chernobyl-1863284.html

Honoring a Friend, Recalling a Battle for Women in Journalism

http://womensmediacenter.com/ex/121809.html

Yemeni Women Take Control of Their Lives in Brooklyn

http://womensmediacenter.com/ex/010610.html

Why Women's Reproductive Freedom Ensures Our Survival

http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=49913

UGANDA: Railway Revival Planned

http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=49930

Creating Strong Independent Businesswomen

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/microcredit-schemes-creates-strong-independent-businesswomen-1708434.html

Orang-utans threatened by Big Oil -- Palm Oil

http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/nature/oil-boom-threatens-the-last-orangutans-1714157.html

Secret Papers: Shell Targeted Oil Protests

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/secret-papers-show-how-shell-targeted-nigeria-oil-protests-1704812.html

Surrendering Tamils were massacred

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jun/11/sri-lanka-tamil-tigers-civil-war

Massacre in the Amazon

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/the-jungle-massacre-perus-tribal-chief-flees-country-1702172.html

Big Oil and Indigenous Rights...Murder in the Rainforest

http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=47142

$15 Million...Please...What a Slap in the Face

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jun/08/nigeria-usa

Fela Kuti: The Fight Continues

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/still-struggling-ndash-fela-kutis-family-fights-on-1697333.html

Cuba to Rejoin the OAS?

http://www.truthout.org/060409L

Anti-Apartheid Movement : 50th Anniversary

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/antiapartheid-movement--50th-anniversary-1695769.html?action=Popup&ino=1

Secret Tiananmen Memoirs Revealed

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8049720.stm

Judid Angamarca vs. Big Oil in Ecuador

http://features.csmonitor.com/environment/2009/05/29/chevron-fights-massive-lawsuit-in-ecuador/

Kenyan eco-town: From the slums to a shining town on the hill

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/kenyan-ecotown-from-the-slums-to-a-shining-town-on-the-hill-1691831.html

Recycling Electronic Waste in Africa

This pilot project in South Africa seems to be having some success:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/25/business/energy-environment/25iht-rbogafrica.html?_r=1&ref=africa

Save Patagonia's Rivers

http://www.internationalrivers.org/

The Evils of Big Oil: 8 1/2 Minutes You Must Watch

http://www.shellguilty.com/wiwa-v-shell-video/

Follow the upcoming court case here:  http://WiwavShell.org/

Taliban Attacking Girl's Education in Afghanistan

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/girls-targeted-in-taliban-gas-attack-1684028.html

Cleaner Coal in China?

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/11/world/asia/11coal.html?_r=1&ref=asia

More Than 500,000 Pakistani Men, Women, and Children Displaced

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/may/08/pakistan-swat-air-strikes

Afghan Women Must Be at the Negotiating Table

http://womensmediacenter.com/ex/040209.html

United States Bombing Massacre in Afghanistan

Reports say that as many as 130 civilians were killed in this massacre.

http://rebelreports.com/post/104594733/after-us-strikes-afghans-describe-tractor-trailers

French Government Investigates Corruption Among African Politicians

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/paris-judge-to-examine-african-leaders-finances-1680808.html

Saving Afghan Cinema

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/jewel-of-afghan-cinema-saved-from-the-taliban-1681824.html

Comprehensive Healthcare Reform? Not if the Republicans have anything to do with it!

These stupid idiot Republicans are totally blind to the fact that a healthy population (e.g. one served by a working healthcare system) leads to a better economy. There is a direct connection you bleeding idiots!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeff-merkley/words-designed-to-kill-he_b_199373.html

Urban Decay in Detroit

The beautiful old Michigan Central Station has been abandoned, and is in dire need of restoration.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/sweetjuniper/sets/72157603305754157/

Republicans are not Populists despite loving to claim as much!

http://www.hightowerlowdown.org/node/1987

Needle Exchange

Hello Obama...needle exchange programs are important in the fight against HIV/AIDS...stop reneging on your campaign promises!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/05/07/obama-budget-bans-federal_n_199436.html

Take Back the Flag

You must read this!!

http://wow-thats-deep.blogspot.com/2009/05/take-back-flag.html

The Dangers of Birth Control

http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2009/05/nuvaring-dangerous