THAILAND: For Fisheries, Depleted Seas Worse Than Insurgency
By Marwaan Macan-Markar
PATTANI, Thailand - Rohana Samu is among the fortunate. She is glad to have steady work for the past four years no matter how monotonous her job is -- working an eight-hour shift daily in a frigid room, cleaning fish.
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HONDURAS: The Data You Seek Will Be Available - in 2018
By Thelma Mejía
TEGUCIGALPA - In a highly controversial decision, the Honduran Institute for Access to Public Information (IAIP) has decided to keep from public scrutiny for 10 years key documents from the Finance Ministry and the tax collection authority.
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COLOMBIA: Uribe's 2006 Reelection "Flawed" - Supreme Court
By Constanza Vieira
BOGOTA - At the same time that Colombian President Álvaro Uribe was welcoming U.S. Republican presidential hopeful John McCain in the north of the country, the Supreme Court issued a communiqué calling on the government to "respect and obey the decisions" of the courts.
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PAKISTAN: Two Journalists Kidnapped on Restive Border
By Ashfaq Yusufzai
PESHAWAR - The abduction Friday of two Pakistani journalists representing the New York Times (NYT) in troubled Mohmand Agency by pro-Taliban fighters has put the spotlight on a spate of kidnappings for ransom that has swept the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) bordering Afghanistan.
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DEATH PENALTY-PAKISTAN: Reprieve Call Could Save Thousands
By Beena Sarwar
KARACHI - Some 7,000 death row inmates -- a quarter of the estimated condemned prisoners worldwide -- are expected to be spared and eventually freed following a call by Pakistan’s prime minister to honour the memory of the assassinated political leader Benazir Bhutto.
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POLITICS-US: Vets Mull Wins and Losses in Benefits Fight
By Aaron Glantz*
SAN FRANCISCO - You could hear the joy in Patrick Campbell's voice as he reflected on U.S. President George W. Bush's signing Monday of a new GI Bill of Rights for veterans returning home from Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Q&A: What the Most Seen Photographs Say
Interview with film director Errol Morris
BRUSSELS - No matter how familiar they become, the photographs depicting abuse at Abu Ghraib prison never seem to lose their ability to shock.
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COLOMBIA: Betancourt Freed in Military Intelligence Operation
By Constanza Vieira
BOGOTA - Former Colombian presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt, three U.S. military contractors and 11 Colombian police officers and soldiers held hostage by the guerrillas were rescued Wednesday in a military intelligence operation.
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PAKISTAN: Consumer Rights Only Sporadically Enforced
By Irfan Ahmed
ISLAMABAD - Since the first serious attempt at enacting consumer rights laws in Pakistan was made back in 1995, only one province -- Punjab -- has succeeded in setting up consumer courts.
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RIGHTS-US: "State Secrets" Privilege Derails Rendition Suit
By William Fisher
NEW YORK - Maher Arar, whose "rendition" to Syria is widely viewed as an egregious example of mistaken identity, has again been denied the right to appear in court, and Congressional efforts to rein in the George W. Bush administration's widespread use of national security as a defence appear to be foundering.
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