News and Views: October 2006
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- Abortion ban closer in Nicaragua (Will Grant, BBC News)
- Millions of Starving Shame the World, U.N. Says (Thalif Deen, Inter Press Service)
- War Climates (Jeffrey Sachs, TomPaine.com)
- Government Death Squads Ravaging Baghdad (Ali Al-Fadhily and Dahr Jamail, Inter Press Service)
- Resistance Art: Colors from Palestine Calendar
- Fencing Them Out... (Jessica Lee, The Indypendent)
- Nicaragua eyes new abortion curbs (Will Grant, BBC News)
- From dawn to dusk, the daily struggle of Africa's women (Paul Vallely, The Independent)
- Microcredit, Macro Issues (Walden Bello, The Nation)
- [Violence against Women:] Why Aren’t We Shocked? (Bob Herbert, The New York Times)
- 654,000 Deaths Tied to Iraq War (Jonathan Bor, Baltimore Sun)
- Afghan Women Demand Protection in Wake of Official's Death (Aaron Glantz, OneWorld US)
- Dirty Water Kills 4,000 Children a Day (Thalif Deen, Inter Press Service)
- US tightens Cuba trade sanctions (BBC News)
- PERU: Indigenous People, Ignored Even by the Statistics (Milagros Salazar, Inter Press Service)
- Gender Violence a Universal Norm, Says U.N. (Thalif Deen, Inter Press Service)
- Painful legacy of Guatemala storm (Laura Smith-Spark, BBC News)
- Hidden victims of a brutal conflict: Iraq's women (Peter Beaumont, The Observer)
- Rep. Burton in Nicaragua: Speaking Loudly and Carrying the Same Big Stick (Brynne Keith-Jennings, Common Dreams)
- Rape risk spirals for Darfur women (Karen Allen, BBC News)
- SRI LANKA: Delay in Parley Deepens Humanitarian Crisis (Amantha Perera, Inter Press Service)
- Latin America Declares Independence (Noam Chomsky, International Herald Tribune)
- Iraqi Journalists Add Laws to List of Dangers (Paul von Zielbauer, New York Times)
- Under the Radar Screen—Rape and Sexualized Violence and the Geneva Conventions (Rhonda Copelon, Women's Media Center)
- GUATEMALA: Army Losing Fight Against Crime (Alberto Mendoza, Inter Press Service)
- Appeasement Driven by Oil: The Bush Administration and Darfur (David Morse, TomDispatch.com)
- Cleaving a False Divide in Latin America (Juan Antonio Montecino, Foreign Policy in Focus)
- Human Rights Groups Unanimously Assail New Detention Law (Jim Lobe, Inter Press Service)
- [Antiterrorism Bill on Detainees, Geneva Conventions]: Rushing Off a Cliff (New York Times Editorial)
- Mexico urges Bush to veto U.S. border fence bill (Greg Brosnan, Reuters)
- Boeing Is Awarded Border Contract (Peter Pae, Los Angeles Times)
