Archive for March, 2002
Ruling threatens Internet Radio
(Salon)
A new ruling involving the Digital Millennium Copyright Act is set to wipe out independent online music stations.
Zimbabwe struck by new reign of terror
(Guardian)
Dr Francis Lovemore, medical director of the Amani Trust human rights group in Harare, says sexual assaults or forced sexual humiliation by the army and militias are now central weapons of the terror.
Vietnam And The World Coffee Crisis: Local Coffee Riots In A Global Context
(Source - Focusweb)
World coffee prices have fallen to their lowest level in 32 years. Before this price collapse coffee was the world’s largest traded primary commodity after oil. An estimated 60 million people make their livelihood from coffee, and that livelihood - precarious and impoverished even in better times - is now under threat.
Relief Web: Earthquake updates and More
(Source - Relief Web)
This page contains a list of the latest major documents added to ReliefWeb pertaining to Afghanistan.
Homeless move into Bamiyan Caves
(Source - IWPR)
Cave networks in the mountains around the Bamiyan Buddhas, the giant statues destroyed by the Taleban last year, have become primitive, makeshift homes for hundreds of desperate families.
Moore’s Book Tops Bestseller List
(Source - Guardian)
It accuses President Bush of being the “thief-in-chief, a trespasser on federal land, a squatter at the Oval Office” and calls for the marines to be sent in to evict him. It claims that the United States is a country that “goes out of its way to remain ignorant and stupid”. And this […]
US Moves Base to Qatar - To Prepare for War with Iraq
(Source - Guardian)
The US Air Force has begun preparations to move its Gulf headquarters from Saudi Arabia to Qatar, to bypass Saudi objections to military action against Iraq, according to Saudi analysts and businessmen involved in the relocation.
US told Italy to Ensure King’s Saftey, Causing Delays
(Source - NYTimes)
[An] Afghan official said American officials had told Italian counterparts last week that Italy, not the United States, should take responsibility for the former king’s security after his return to Kabul, which was to have taken place today.
Supreme Court says Drug-Eviction Law Is Constitutional
(Source - NYTimes)
The Supreme Court today interpreted a federal drug law to permit the eviction of public housing tenants for drug use by any household member or guest, even drug use that takes place outside the apartment without the tenant’s knowledge. … The four plaintiffs who challenged the evictions in Oakland included two whose grandchildren, […]
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