News and Views: February 2008
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- Kenya: Friends united (IRIN News)
- Colombia: Displaced to March Against "Senseless War" (Constanza Vieira, IPS News)
- Economy-Kenya: Amid Political Crisis, Food Shortages Loom (Rosalia Omungo, IPS News)
- U.N. Takes Lead on Ending Gender Violence (Thalif Deen, IPS News)
- We 'cannot wait' to end violence against women - Secretary-General Ban (UN News)
- Latin America: Justice Disserved for Indigenous Prisoners (Daniela Estrada, IPS News)
- The Global Water Crisis and the Coming Battle for the Right to Water (Maude Barlow, Foreign Policy in Focus)
- Israel Adds Border Forces Ahead of Protest in Gaza (Isabel Kershner, New York Times)
- Iraq: In Tatters Beneath a Surge of Claims (Ali al-Fadhily and Dahr Jamail, IPS News)
- Gender Key in Managing Risk (Prensa Latina)
- Environment: Poor May Need Insurance Against Climate Change (Linus Atarah, IPS News)
- Human rights defenders at grave risk in Guatemala, UN expert finds (UN News)
- Rights: U.N. Budgeting Bypasses Women (Thalif Deen, IPS News)
- Latin America: Gender Stereotypes Still Firmly Entrenched, Despite Progress (Dalia Acosta, IPS News)
- The War against Women Never Ends (Ann Jones, TomDispatch.com)
- Africa: First ladies fight for peace (IRIN News)
- Guatemala: Indigenous Women Weave Incomes, Self-Confidence (Inés Benítez, IPS News)
- In Kenya, Women Absorb Country's Shock Waves (Zoe Alsop, Women's eNews)
- Iraq: The Lights Have Gone Out, Who Cares (Ahmed Ali and Dahr Jamail, IPS News)
- A Campaign to Stop Stoning (Katha Pollitt, The Nation)
- Iraq: More government money for IDPs, refugees (IRIN News)
- Hundreds of children missing after Darfur attack (IRIN News)
- Development: 'Food Miles' Hard to Digest (David Cronin, IPS News)
- Can a Kenyan Peace Agreement Stem Rape? (Muadi Mukenge, AlterNet)
- Sudan: Too scared to tell - sexual violence in Darfur (IRIN News)
- Imagine 50 Million American Refugees (Tom Engelhardt, The Nation)
- Kenya: Violence Threatens Progress in HIV/AIDS Fight (Abra Pollock, IPS News)
- Progress at Kenya's peace talks (BBC News)
- Biofuels Deemed a Greenhouse Threat (Elisabeth Rosenthal, New York Times)
- Africa Policy Outlook 2008 ( Gerald LeMelle, Foreign Policy in Focus)
- Kenya: University's re-opening a lesson in peace amid diversity (IRIN News)
- Environment: Record Financing For Biofuels, Not Food (Stephen Leahy, IPS News)
- Climate set for 'sudden shifts' (Pallab Ghosh, BBC News)
- The Experiment in Gaza (Neve Gordon, In These Times)
- Politics-Africa: Sudanese Women Meet at AU Summit (Yazeed Kamaldien, IPS News)
- Kenya: Insecurity leaves crops rotting (IRIN News)
- Fighting climate change: Human solidarity in a divided world (Human Development Report 2007/2008)
