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Iraq’s Occupation (14)

IRAQ: Balkans Soldiers Find Fortune in Baghdad - By Vesna Peric Zimonjic

IRAQ: U.S. Sees Al-Qaeda Everywhere Analysis - By Ritt Goldstein

IRAQ U.S. Takes Custody of Another Wayward Client Analysis - By Jim Lobe

IRAQ Palestinians Go Down with Saddam - By Ferry Biedermann

IRAQ U.S. Takes Custody of Another Wayward Client Analysis - By Jim Lobe

IRAQ: The Story Behind Saddam's Arrest - By Ritt Goldstein

POLITICS-IRAQ: A Year After Occupation, Resistance Digs In - By Peyman Pejman

POLITICS-US Congress Ignores 'Dirty War' Past of New Iraq Envoy - By Jim Lobe

IRAQ How Much Has Changed, And How Little - By Peyman Pejman

IRAQ: War Comes to the Classroom - By Peyman Pejman

IRAQ How the French Inspired the Torture - By Julio Godoy

IRAQ: War Launched to Protect Israel - Bush Adviser - By Emad Mekay

IRAQ: Arrest Embarrasses Saddam's Tribe - By Ferry Biedermann

War (6)

AMERICA DEL SUR: La urticaria armamentista – By Gustavo Gonzalez

POLITICS: Dogs of War Take to Suits - By Julio Godoy

POLITICS-ZIMBABWE: The War That Might Not Have Been - By Wilson Johwa

COLOMBIA Peace Caravan in the Tense Solitude of Putumayo - By Constanza Vieira

COLOMBIA The Truth Behind Ingrid Betancourt 'Rescue Mission' - By Constanza Vieira

SPECIAL REPORT Wanted in Africa, Needed in Iraq - By Julio Godoy

Global Issues (3)

POLITICS-U.S. Hegemony Yes, Empire No in a Kerry Foreign Policy Analysis - By Jim Lobe

POLITICS Bush Stance on Syria Hit Shows Neo-Cons Still Hold Sway Analysis - By Jim Lobe

POLITICS U.S. and France Begin a Great Game in Africa - By Julio Godoy

Politics (16)

SOUTH KOREA Dilemma of Defectors Upsetting Delicate Diplomacy - By Ahn Mi-Young

POLITICS-U.S. Chickenhawk Groupthink? Analysis - By Jim Lobe

VENEZUELA: Why Did Chavez Win? - By Humberto Marquez

POLITICS-U.S: Will Dubya Dump Dick? - By Jim Lobe

TAIWAN-CHINA: Reunification Goal Fast Becoming Fiction - By Antoaneta Bezlova

POLITICS-MALAYSIA: Goodbye Mahathir, Good Luck Abdullah - By Baradan Kuppusamy

MIDEAST Only the Impasse Gets Stronger Analysis - By Ferry Biedermann

POLITICS-U.S. Cheney's the One Analysis - By Jim Lobe

POLITICS-ZIMBABWE Battered and Bruised, the Main Opposition Party Takes Stock - By Wilson Johwa

POLITICS-ZIMBABWE Complex Race Relations as New Year Dawns - By Wilson Johwa

POLITICS-SAUDI-ARABIA Fair Deal for Women? Well, No One Knows - By Peyman Pejman

HONG KONG: Democrats' Lost Momentum Could Please China - By Simon Parry

SOUTH KOREA: Dilemma of Defectors Upsetting Delicate Diplomacy - By Ahn Mi-Young

POLITICS-NEPAL: People's Defiance Rises with Number of Strikes - By Damakant Jayshi

POLITICS: Cash Crunch, Sex Abuse Charges Hit U.N. - By Thalif Deen

SRI LANKA: Tamil Tigers' Split Jeopardises Peace Process - By Amantha Perera

Terrorism (1)

SPAIN Terrorism, Lies and Elections Analysis - By Diana Cariboni

Human Rights (12)

DERECHOS HUMANOS-ARGENTINA: La hora de la justicia - By Marcela Valente

RIGHTS-MALAYSIA: More Than One Winner in Anwar's Freedom - By Anil Netto

RIGHTS Think of the Arabs Within Israel - By Ferry Biedermann

Civil War Leaves School System in Tatters - By Abdullah Dukuly

A Price Above Rubies - By Rachel Rinaldo

SUDAN: Arab League Failing over Darfur - By Cam McGrath

RIGHTS-RWANDA Women Survivors of the Rwandan Genocide Face Grim Realities - By Rachel Rinaldo

RIGHTS-COLOMBIA 'We Are Afraid to Speak Out in Public, to Show Our Faces' - By Constanza Vieira

Are Preschoolers Getting Their Due? - By Christina Scott

RIGHTS Latin America's Prisons - Hell on Earth - By Diego Cevallos

IRAQ Women's Rights Put on Hold - By Peyman Pejman

RIGHTS: Immigrant Workers Fight for Compensation - By Katherine Stapp

Economy, Finance & Trade (11)

TRADE: EU Sugar Decision Not so Sweet for Caribbean - By Dionne Jackson Miller

TRADE Brazil Pushes for Flexibility in FTAA Talks - By Mario Osava

ZIMBABWE Foreign Exchange Shortage, Remittance Boom - By Wilson Johwa

LABOUR-NEPAL: Iraq's 'Hell' Still Lures Workers - By Surendra Phuyal

U.S. Moves to Squeeze FTAA Opponents - By Emad Mekay

BRASIL: Un siglo de crecimiento acelerado - By Mario Osava

ECONOMY-SOUTHERN AFRICA Cross-Border Traders No Longer Small Fry - By Moyiga Nduru

ARGENTINA Workers Salvage Factories and Jobs - By Viviana Alonso

LABOUR-HAITI Workers Fight for Rights in Free Trade Zone - By Jane Regan

Cheated Savers Despair Over Slow Pace of Justice - By Darío Montero

ECONOMY-AFGHANISTAN: Reconstruction Hinges on Opium Poppy Fida Hussain

Media (4)

MEDIA: Kidnappers Showtime - By Samuele Gabbio

MEDIA-VIETNAM Openness Does Not Quite Reach the Press - By Marwaan Macan-Markar

Helping Reporters Identify and Deal with Post-Traumatic Stress - By Constanza Vieira

POLITICS-MALAWI: Allegations of Media Bias Plague Election Campaign - By Frank Phiri

Health & Medicines (5)

HEALTH Drug Industry Scandal a 'Crisis' - By Ritt Goldstein

HEALTH-U.S. No Room for Ailing Aliens - By Haider Rizvi

PAKISTAN: Sex Workers Come Together to Fight HIV/AIDS - By Zofeen T. Ebrahim

HEALTH-SENEGAL Cardinals and Khalifs Unite Against AIDS - By Mercedes Sayagues

HEALTH-ZAMBIA HIV-Positive Prisoners Find Freedom a Mixed Blessing - By Zarina Geloo

Development (3)

DRUGS-COLOMBIA The Other Face of the Narco-Traffickers - By Constanza Vieira

DEVELOPMENT-ARGENTINA: Utter Poverty in Former Reserve - By Marcela Valente

DEVELOPMENT-INDIA: Goregaon Returns to Dusty Normality After WSF - By Raúl Pierri

Environment (1)

ENVIRONMENT In the Heat, Nobody Thinks of the Warming - By Sanjay Suri

Population (4)

CHINA-TAIWAN: Intermarriages Mix Love, Suspicion, Torn Loyalties - By Antoaneta Bezlova

BANGLADESH Women Learn Tough Lessons from Work in Malaysia - By Qurratul Ain Tahmina

COLOMBIA Young People Killed by 'Mistake', or Taken from Their Home? – By Constanza Vieira

BANGLADESH: Wives at Home Worry about Husbands' Fidelity - By Quarratul Ain Tahmina

 

 

 

 

“Richard De Zoysa” Award for Excellence in Independent Journalism

IPS is honouring Sri Lankan journalist Richard De Zoysa with this year's IPS Award for Excellence in Independent Journalism.

Richard De Zoysa was a multi-faceted personality who left a lasting impression during a short but prolific creative span. He was a media critic, announcer, teledrama and stage actor, author and journalist. He was also IPS's correspondent in Sri Lanka's capital Colombo. Richard was 32 when he was abducted and killed by an armed gang in Sri Lanka on Feb. 19, 1990.

Richard's gruesome killing spurred his mother, Dr. Manorani Saravanamuttu, to launch a campaign for justice for the 'disappeared' on behalf of the mothers who had lost their sons; wives who had lost their husbands; sisters who had lost their brothers.

Dr. Saravanamuttu's relentless campaign attracted international attention towards the plight of victims who disappeared without a trace during the 1988-90 terror period. In 1996, she was awarded the 'Weera Mathru' (heroic mother) title.

Richard De Zoysa was awarded posthumously the IPS Award in 1990. This award was established in 1985 to honour outstanding accomplishments in international journalism, promoting democracy and human rights.

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