News and Views: December 2007
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- Bolivia: Guarayo Indians Struggle to Hold Onto Their Land (Franz Chávez, IPS News)
- Requiem for Benazir Bhutto (Women's Action Forum, Pakistan)
- Bali's Business-As-Usual Mandate (Janet Redman, Foreign Policy in Focus)
- A West Bank struggle rooted in land (Richard Boudreaux, Los Angeles Times)
- Israeli Occupation Casts Shadow Over Bethlehem (Ben White, AlterNet)
- Awareness "key to ending discrimination" (IRIN News)
- Human Rights in Argentina - Progress and Pending Tasks (Marcela Valente, IPS News)
- Report Finds U.S. Agencies Distracted by Focus on Cuba (Marc Lacey, New York Times)
- Lowering Mexico's Drawbridge to US Maize and Beans (Diego Cevallos, IPS News)
- Iraq: "Bad" Women Raped and Killed (Ali al-Fadhily, IPS News)
- Gays Living in Shadows of New Iraq (Cara Buckley, New York Times)
- The Secret Library of Hope: 12 Books to Stiffen Your Resolve (Rebecca Solnit, TomDispatch.com)
- Saudi Gang Rape Victim Pardoned But Bush's Reaction, Media's Reporting Are Unpardonable (Lucinda Marshall, AlterNet)
- World unity forces US to back climate deal (Daniel Howden and Geoffrey Lean, The Independent)
- The USA's Human Rights Daze (Norman Solomon, AlterNet)
- Awareness-raising key to tackling gender violence (IRIN News)
- U.N. declaration becomes law of the land in Bolivia (Rick Kearns, Indian Country)
- Middle east: the terrorized half of our society (Houzan Mahmoud, openDemocracy)
- Prostitution ordeal of Iraqi girls (Lina Sinjab, BBC News)
- Japan: Looking to Play a Key Role in Bali (Catherine Makino, IPS News)
- Continuing dialogue with Sudan vital to expediting assistance, says top UN aid official (UN News)
- Rethinking U.S. Foreign Aid - Make Iraq a True "Green Zone" (Gregory Wright, Alternet)
- An Open Letter to the UN (Fatima Ahmed, Zenab)
- UN climate change conference opens in Bali with call for breakthrough (UN News)
