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May 21, 2010
in unfreemedia.org Africa: Mauritius
By Patrick Smith, Editor Africa ConfidentialIndian companies are routing tens of billions of dollars through Mauritius each year in a giant tax avoidance scheme India is changing its tax laws in a bid to introduce greater transparency into its financial......
May 18, 2010
in unfreemedia.org - International: post traumatic stress
Why do British troops who fought just as hard in Iraq or Afghanistan have far lower rates of post-traumatic stress than their Americans cousins? Dr. Simon Wessely, of King's College London, who conducted the study suggests it may have something......
in unfreemedia.org - International: mobile money
By Jenny Aker Share at the Center for Global DevelopmentIn the wake of the Haitian earthquake, major wireless carriers used text messages to speed up and simplify donation processes, allowing thousands of people to send financial support via their mobile phones. Within two days,......
in unfreemedia.org Europe & Central Asia: United Kingdom
Mikhail Beketov had been warned, but would not stop writing. About dubious land deals. Crooked loans. Under-the-table hush money. All evidence, he argued in his newspaper, of rampant corruption in this Moscow suburb. Not long after, he was savagely beaten......
May 17, 2010
in unfreemedia.org - International: radio
The radio program This American Life has ventured outside the US to look at stories that happen around bridges and other passage-ways around the world. There's a bridge in China that's famous for its massive size and its high suicide......
May 16, 2010
in Americas: Haiti
By lisaparavisini (Reposted from Repeating islands)The Los Angeles Times reviews Isabel Allende's latest book, which is set in HaitiIn the days following the tragic Haitian earthquake, televangelist Pat Robertson made headlines when he claimed that Haiti's founders had made a "pact to the......
May 15, 2010
in Americas: Cuba
by Yoani SanchezOn the corner there is a hydrant which, at night, turns into the water supply for hundreds of families in the area. Even the watercarriers come to it, with their 55 gallon tanks on rickety old carts that clatter......
in Americas: Cuba
by Yoani SanchezA few days ago, the Internet once again gave me a couple of pleasant surprises. I was in the middle of the process of trying to travel out of Cuba when my phone rang and a voice with a......
May 14, 2010
in unfreemedia.org - International: Environment
Bhaskar Sen Gupta of Queen's University Belfast collects prize of $75,000.An innovative method of removing arsenic from groundwater without using chemicals, has won this year's St Andrews Prize for the Environment. A team from Queen's University, Belfast, addressed the......
May 13, 2010
in unfreemedia.org - International: Pulitzer Center
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May 12, 2010
in Americas: Haiti
By Coco McCabe / Oxfam AmericaThe talk this morning, when we arrived at the Oxfam office in Haiti's capital, was all about the aftershock that jerked people awake in their beds around midnight last night. Did you feel it, they asked......
in Americas: Haiti
Julie Schindall of Oxfam in Haiti, About 10 days ago, we found out that the government of Haiti identified a site for temporary location of homeless people living in flood-prone settlements in Port-au-Prince. They took two months to identify the site and......
in unfreemedia.org - Middle East & N Africa: Lebanon
The mass burial site for the victims of an Israeli air strike on Qana on July 30, 2006.(FEYROUZ / CC)By Tom SleighWhen we drove into Qana last year," Joseph told me, scanning the gray concrete houses on either side of the......
May 11, 2010
in unfreemedia.org - International: tobacco smuggling
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May 10, 2010
in unfreemedia.org - International: GMO
Obama Administration pushes Kenya as GMO "biotechnology and biosafety" hubAfrican farmers offered "royalty free" hybrid seeds in trialsMost small African farmers still oppose use of GMO seedsOxfam UK adviser says small scale African farmers could benefit from GMO ......
in Americas: USA
A press release from the oil spill Joint Command could have been in the satirical "newspaper" The Onion.The half-dozen tar balls found at Dauphin Island were being sent to a lab for testing to determine their point of origin--as if there were any......
May 7, 2010
in unfreemedia.org - International: dissidents
A small sample of the thousands of brave men and women leading the global fight for freedom and democracy.BY ANDREW SWIFT, PETER WILLIAMS | Foreign PolicyDemocracy. Women's rights. Freedom of the press. The rule of law. From Afghanistan to Zimbabwe, China to......
May 6, 2010
in unfreemedia.org - Middle East & N Africa: Iraq
A Kurdish journalist kidnapped in Erbil, the capital of the semiautonomous Kurdistan region of Iraq, was tortured and then dumped on a main road with two bullets in his head. Zardasht Osman, 23, was killed because he had lacerated......
in unfreemedia.org Africa: DR Congo
The investigative programme 60 Minutes traveled to Dr Congo with Enough Project's co-founder John Prendergast to learn how conflict minerals are fueling the one of the deadliest wars in the world. See here for the full length CBS investigation......
in Americas: Haiti
By Kathie Klarreich, Christian Science Monitor correspondent Port-au-Prince, HaitiTwo weekends ago, 15-year old Rosemadette Aijais stayed out late with friends, trying to distract herself from the daily grind of life in one of the many tent camps that now dominate Haiti's capital.Skip to next paragraphRelated StoriesHaiti......
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