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Haitian Women and Elections: Presidents, Politics and Power
Reconstructing Haiti is not about buildings, projects or money. It's about power, about who gets to control what the future Haiti looks like. Redistributing power and creating a new …
Grasslands Preserve the Lonely Prairie
West from Sioux Falls, hundreds of miles of rolling South Dakota corn eventually morph into one of this country’s largest remaining national grasslands, a portion of what is now …
Economic Boom Worsened Deindustrialization of Least Developed Countries
Geneva - Least developed countries (LDCs) in Africa did not use the commodity export boom of the mid-2000s to diversify their economies from commodity dependence to manufacturing value-added products. …
Israeli Government Documents Show Deliberate Policy to Restrict Food to Gaza
Documents, whose existence were denied by the Israeli government for over a year, have been released after a legal battle led by Israeli human rights group, Gisha. The documents …
With US-South Korea War Games, a Signal to North Korea
Washington - The joint military exercises the US will conduct with South Korea's navy on Sunday, off the Korean peninsula in the Yellow Sea, are taking on added significance …
Next Chapter in the “Republican War Against Women“
Republican women have become a not-so-subtle weapon for breaking apart the Democratic coalition, grounded in the women's vote, that gave Democrats control of the House and Senate in 2006 …
Fear of Violence in Haiti as Elections Begin
Port-au-Prince, Haiti — When her husband ran for president in 1987, Mirlande Manigat saw Haiti implode in violence: Troops massacred voters on election day. He later won the election, …
DREAM Act Students Defy Deportations, Demand Vote in Congress
Oakland, California - This coming week, if Sen. Harry Reid keeps his word, Congress may get a chance to vote on the DREAM Act. First introduced in 2003, the …
Surviving in Haiti
Haiti is a reminder of a lesson we in New Orleans got after Hurricane Katrina and the broken levees: the capacity of humanity to survive, sustain culture and create …
I-Word Triggers Boycott Campaign Against Fresno Bee Newspaper
Controversy is brewing in a central California city over the use of the term “illegal” when identifying immigrants without papers, sparking a temporary boycott of a local newspaper that …