News and Views: October 2007
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- Darfur: UN-African Union peacekeeping force launches operations in El Fasher (UN News)
- Changing of the Guard at the IMF (Soren Ambrose and Bhumika Muchhala, Foreign Policy in Focus)
- U.N. Spurns Cuba Embargo for 17th Year (Haider Rizvi, IPS News)
- Peru: UN agency helps 80,000 earthquake survivors to rebuild their lives (UN News)
- IRAQ: Number of girls attending school dropping, say analysts (IRIN News)
- Rendition, the movie (Peter Tatchell, The Guardian)
- Jimmy Carter Man from Plains
- Argentina's First Lady Wins Presidency by Wide Margin (Monte Reel, The Washington Post)
- Biofuels 'crime against humanity' (Grant Ferrett, BBC News)
- Israel OKs Gaza electricity cutoffs (Richard Boudreaux, Los Angeles Times)
- UN independent rights expert calls for five-year freeze on biofuel production (UN News)
- UN relief chief warns on deteriorating conditions facing Palestinians (UN News)
- Humans failing the sustainability audit (Richard Black, BBC News)
- Nicaragua: Of Forests, Floods, Fatalities and Famine (José Adán Silva, IPS News)
- Myths and Facts of Ethanol (The Network for New Energy Choices)
- UN chief: violence against women surges (Edith M. Lederer, Associated Press)
- UN food agency rushes aid to flood-hit families in Guatemala (UN News)
- Security Council calls for boost to women's role in peace and security (UN News)
- Cuba: Restoring Lost Balance in Nature (Patricia Grogg, IPS News)
- Number of people fleeing inside Iraq could rise, UN refugee agency warns (UN News)
- Chávez's Plan for Development Bank Moves Ahead (Alexei Barrionuevo, New York Times)
- Landmark UN women's conference ends with pledge to prevent maternal deaths (UN News)
- World Bank Slated for Undermining Democracy (OneWorld.net)
- Biofuels - Great Green Hope or Swindle (Stephen Leahy, IPS News)
- Shiite Refugees Feel Forsaken in Their Holy City (Alissa J. Rubin, New York Times)
- Cuba: Women, Local Elections and People's Power (Patricia Grogg, IPS News)
- Development: Millions Stood Up, Will World Leaders Follow? (Haider Rizvi, IPS News)
- 2015 Talk - Millennium Development Goals (OneWorld US)
- Indigenous People See Common Ground in Struggles (Stephen de Tarczynski, IPS News)
- Trade body rules against U.S. on cotton subsidies (Associated Press)
- No Woman Should Die Giving Life, Says UNFPA (Thalif Deen, IPS News)
- In Southern Darfur, Signs of Another Massacre (Jeffrey Gettleman, New York Times)
- Development: The Missing Piece of the Poverty Puzzle (Anita Petry, IPS News)
- World Bank Neglects African Farming, Study Says (Celia W. Dugger, New York Times)
- Progress in slowing maternal deaths too slow, UN agencies warn (UN News)
- Israel-Syria: Separation of families "priority humanitarian issue" (IRIN News)
- Indigenous Congress Demands Teeth for UN Declaration (Franz Chávez)
- Major Health Data Hits U.S. Aid Politics (Kara Alaimo, Women's eNews)
- Global Hunger Scorecard Shows Some Progress, Much Concern (Haider Rizvi, OneWorld US)
- General Assembly President urges action on climate change (UN News)
- Anti-Poverty Index Scores U.S. Last on Environment Policies (Haider Rizvi, OneWorld US)
- Iraq: UN reports widespread rights abuses, urges response measures (UN News)
- "The Moral Reserve of Humanity": Indigenous Peoples' Day (Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, CounterPunch)
- U.S. Guards Kill 2 Iraqi Women in New Shooting (Andrew E. Kramer and James Glanz, New York Times)
- UN rushes to aid Palestinians on Iraq-Syria border after fire sweeps through camp (UN News)
- Army Accused of Razing Darfur Town (Lydia Polgreen, New York Times)
- Killer law: special report from Nicaragua on abortion (Rory Carroll, The Guardian)
- Peru: New Census to Make Indigenous Peoples' Rights Count (Milagros Salazar, IPS News)
- Iraq Struggles With Cholera Outbreak (Katarina Kratovac, Associated Press)
- Climate change disaster is upon us, warns UN (Julian Borger, The Guardian)
- Amazon group bans loggers and miners (Michael Melia, Associated Press)
- Run for Congo Women
- Rights-Mexcio: Armed Forces Accused in Civilian Courts (Emilio Godoy, IPS News)
- Guatemala: Concern Over Bill that Would Restrict Definition of 'Family' (Inés Benítez, IPS News)
- Rape risk spirals for Darfur women (Karen Allen, BBC News)
- U.S. Swaps Guatemalan Debt for Forest Protection (Reuters)
- Bolivian President Evo Morales Interviewed on the Daily Show (The Daily Show with Jon Stewart)
- Women's empowerment key to achieving UN's goals, says Ban Ki-moon (UN News)
- Latin America: Nine Roads Through the Virgin Wilderness (Marcela Valente, IPS News)
- Few legal options for abused Palestinian women, say activists (IRIN News)
- The controversy over Africom (Daniel Gordon, BBC News)
- Muppets go to school in Kosovo in UN-backed effort to bridge ethnic divide (UN News)
- Nicaragua's abortion ban putting women's lives at risk, US rights group says (Associated Press)
- How to Address Humanity's Global Crises? Challenge Corporate Power, Embrace True Democracy (Vandana Shiva, AlterNet )
