News and Views: August 2006
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- Darfur Crisis Set to Worsen? (Jim Lobe, Inter Press Service)
- HEALTH-KENYA: 'Break the Silence on Abortion' (Joyce Mulama, Inter Press Service)
- REMINDER: Women as Equal Citizens: Advocating for Change in Muslim-Majority Societies (Sept. 6, Washington DC)
- More than 200,000 Sri Lankans now displaced by fighting (UN News)
- The Katrina Anniversary (Jordan Flaherty, Left Turn Magazine)
- Juarez Killings Escalate As Investigation Stalls (Leslie Fishburn-Clark, Women's Media Center/AlterNet)
- U.S. Trade Sanctions Seek to Pressure Latin America (Ariela Ruiz Caro, IRC Americas Program)
- Women must play greater role in water management (Agence France-Presse)
- The Future Of The AIDS Fight (Naina Dhingra, TomPaine.com)
- Women Matter - In All of the Millennium Goals (Marcela Valente, Inter Press Service)
- Fidel’s Health and Implications for U.S. Policy (Mavis Anderson, Foreign Policy in Focus)
- A Crude Awakening for Women (Martha Burk, Ms. Magazine)
- Start Talking to Hezbollah (Lakhdar Brahimi, New York Times Op-Ed)
- Lesbianas y discriminación laboral en América Latina (22 de agosto, Mexico)
- Gates Breaks Ranks with Attack on US AIDS Policy (Sarah Boseley, Guardian/UK)
- ELECTIONS-MEXICO: Leftwing Protesters Prepared for the Long Haul (Diego Cevallos, Inter Press Service)
- More UN officials deplore violence in Sri Lanka as toll on children rises (UN News)
- RIGHTS: Native People Demand Self-Determination (Haider Rizvi, Inter Press Service)
- Ceasefire and Frustration (Ian Williams, The Nation)
- Cuba's Agricultural Revolution an Example to the World (Andrew Buncombe, Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
- Walk to Support Palestine (Grassroots International)
- U.S. Warrior Princesses Condi and Hillary (Zillah Eisenstein, Women's Human Rights net)
- Israelis, American Muslims for Peace (Ruth Conniff, The Progressive)
- SRI LANKA: Local Water Dispute Turning Into Open War (Amantha Perera, Inter Press Service)
- Cuba Perks Up as Venezuelan Foils Embargo (Juan Forero, The New York Times)
- US Military Assistance and Arms Transfers to Israel (World Policy Institute, Frida Berrigan and William D. Hartung)
- The Curse Hanging Over Nicaragua (Stephen Kinzer, Los Angeles Times Op-ed)
- Israel Responsible for Qana Attack (Human Rights Watch)
