News and Views: February 2006
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- KENYA: Drought could lead to humanitarian catastrophe, warns UN envoy (UN Integrated Regional Information Networks)
- Empowering women is key to development, Fréchette tells UN Commission (UN News)
- Khartoum Accused of Exporting Darfur Violence to Chad (Jim Lobe, Inter Press Service)
- Women's Lowly News Status Is a Global Insult (Sheila Gibbons, Women's eNews)
- Danger of Philippine Landslides Often Ignored, Critics Say (Carlos H. Conde, The New York Times)
- Activists Lash Out at Government Report on Juárez Killings (Diego Cevallos, Inter Press Service)
- Haiti’s Elections: Right Result for the Wrong Reason (Brian Concannon, Jr., IRC Americas Program)
- Mud wipes out Philippines village (BBC News)
- Rains hamper Bolivia flood aid (Daniel Schweimler, BBC News)
- Guantanamo closure call rejected (BBC News)
- Counting Some of the Votes in Haiti (Brian Concannon, Jr., Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti)
- Close Guantanamo Now, UN Tells White House (David Usborne and Ben Russell, Independent / UK)
- Women stay vulnerable to violence in Afghanistan (Pakistan News Service)
- U.S. Cuts Funds for Family Planning Overseas, Stirring Opposition (Celia W. Dugger, The New York Times)
- Maasai-led Grassroots Education Efforts Prove Essential to Referendum Defeat (Michael Ole Tiampati, Weekly Indigenous News)
- KENYA: Gov't appeals for $245 m to assist drought-affected people (UN Integrated Regional Information Networks)
- Haiti: Election Day and Beyond (Brian Concannon, ZNet)
- Family planning row in Guatemala (BBC News)
- Mayor: New Orleans will seek aid from other nations (Michael Depp, Reuters)
- SUDAN: Thousands displaced by recent attacks in South Darfur (UN Integrated Regional Information Networks)
- Erasing the Lines: Trends in U.S. Military Programs with Latin America
- POLITICS-HAITI: U.S. Hopes for Smooth Elections (Jim Lobe, Inter Press Service)
- Morales's rise inspires Andean groups (Lucien Chauvin, The Christian Science Monitor)
- New Scuffles Over Water (Diego Cavallos, Inter Press Service)
- Guatemala throws out charges against ex-dictator (Reuters)
- Alito Confirmation Marks Shift to the Right (Jim Lobe, Inter Press Service)
