News and Views: October 2005
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- The 10th AWID International Forum on Women's Rights and Development (October 27-30, Thailand)
- Indigenous Peoples Particularly Vulnerable to Disasters (Diego Cevallos, Inter Press Service)
- GUATEMALA: Gaping Wounds Left by Stan Drive Country Further into Poverty (Diego Cevallos, Inter Press Service)
- Guatemalans wary of military aid; US and other regional countries agreed last week to form a relief force (Jill Replogle, The Christian Science Monitor)
- Violence against Women as a Weapon of War: Causes and Consequences (Columbia Law School, October 19, 2005)
- Iraqi Women See Little but Darkness (Ellen Knickmeyer, Washington Post)
- FRONTLINE: The Torture Question (October 18)
- Brooklyn Peace Fair (October 22)
- Latin Nations Rejecting US-Led Reforms (Mark Weisbrot, The Providence Journal)
- No Place for a Poet at a Banquet of Shame (Sharon Olds, The Nation)
- Anger at slow aid to Guatemala mudslide village (Frank Jack Daniel, Reuters)
- 1,400 Guatemalans Missing as Floods Kill 618 (Agence France Presse)
- Shades of FEMA's Brown in Bush Pick (Ken Silverstein, Los Angeles Times)
- Guatemala Activists Oppose Military Courts Bill (Héctor Tobar, Los Angeles Times)
- Scapegoats of Juárez (Sean Mariano García, Latin America Working Group)
- Permanent Occupation (Rep. Barbara Lee, In These Times)
- "Electoral Cleansing" in Haiti Violates Human Rights and Democracy (Brian Concannon Jr., Americas Program, International Relations Center)
- US forces 'out of control', says Reuters chief (Julia Day, Guardian Unlimited)
