News and Views: May 2006
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- Guatemala must do more to assure security, justice – UN rights chief (UN News)
- UN Forum on indigenous issues looks to new Human Rights Council (UN News)
- Globalization's Watchdogs (Mark Engler, Foreign Policy in Focus)
- 25 Years on, Anti-AIDS Drive Still Falling Short (Irwin Arieff, Reuters)
- Cuba Working Group: Principles for a Sound Cuba Policy
- War on Terror ‘Undermining Human Rights’ (Sarah Witt, Financial Times)
- COLOMBIA: Casualties in Battle Against Free Trade Pact with US (Constanza Vieira, Inter Press Service)
- GUATEMALA: Fears and Hopes Raised by Free Trade with US (Alberto Mendoza, Inter Press Service)
- Bush Turns to Big Military Contractors for Border Control (Eric Lipton, The New York Times)
- March for Immigrant Rights (May 20, NYC)
- UN: US Should Close Gitmo Facility (The Associated Press)
- UN launches Programme of Action for 2nd Decade for Indigenous Peoples (UN News)
- Despite rains, 40,000 children face death in drought-stricken Horn of Africa, UN warns (UN News)
- Haiti’s first census in 24 years uncovers pressing problems, UN agency says (UN News)
- UN expert on rights of indigenous peoples to revisit Guatemala after four years (UN News)
- Crackdown in Mexico: 200 Jailed, Women Claim Sexual Abuse by Police (Democracy Now!)
- Colombia court eases abortion ban (BBC News)
- Iraq: A parallel universe (Paul Rogers, openDemocracy)
- UN Reform for the Rest of Us: An Agenda for Grassroots Accountability (Michael Kagan, Foreign Policy in Focus)
- Indigenous Movements: Between Neoliberalism and Leftist Governments (Raúl Zibechi, IRC Americas Program)
- General Assembly elects first members to new Human Rights Council (UN News)
- UK Attorney General calls for Guantanamo to close (Jamie Doward and Mark Townsend, The Observer )
- 36 US House Reps Want Bush Impeachment Probe (Matthew Cardinale, Atlanta Progressive News)
- Torture "widespread" under U.S. custody: Amnesty (Reuters)
- RadioNation with Laura Flanders: May 3, 2006
- NYC Event (5/18): Guerrero Resistance: The Work of Carlos Efraín Pérez (National Museum of the American Indian)
- Cuba Has Better Medical Care Than the U.S. (Blake Fleetwood, The Huffington Post)
- Women's Rights and Development (Society for International Development)
