October 2009(16)
  • Oct 31 2009
  • 4:30pm
Action for Health
Action for Health is a section of the Hesperian Foundation's website.&n...
  • Oct 31 2009
  • 4:27pm
UN official denied entry to Zimbabwe to investigate torture
Manfred Nowak, the United Nations investigator of torture, got as far as Harare ...
  • Oct 31 2009
  • 4:21pm
See this cartoon on the Honduran coup
The Honduran Coup, A Graphic History, by Dan Archer and Nikil Saval, uses cartoo...
  • Oct 30 2009
  • 11:50pm
Unreported World on Afghan migrants
Channel 4 tonight showed the plight of Afghan migrants who get as far as Turkey ...
  • Oct 30 2009
  • 8:08pm
How safe is Zimbabwe now?
Refugee welfare groups have reacted with anger to suggestions from the Home Offi...
  • Oct 30 2009
  • 1:48pm
President of Honduras under siege
The deposed president of Honduras, Manuel Zelaya, is under siege in th...
  • Oct 26 2009
  • 10:23pm
Radovan Karadzic is on trial
Radovan Karadzic is on trial.  He claims that he needs more time to prepare...
  • Oct 26 2009
  • 10:10pm
Risks for pregnant women in Africa
See the recent blog entry by Efemena on the risks faced by pregnant women in Afr...
  • Oct 26 2009
  • 9:54pm
British supplies used in putting down protests
I wrote before about the brutal suppression of protests in Conakry, capital of G...
  • Oct 26 2009
  • 9:42pm
Channel 4 on science's last taboo
Is there any question that should be taboo and not explored by scientists? ...

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