This follows another high profile case where Caroline Quartararo, a former spokeswoman on Rockefeller drug law reform for Governor Pataki received a similar minor sentence after being arrested with crack cocaine.

Most alarming are the author's [Ann Jones, Kabul in Winter] observations on the status of women in the country[Afghanistan]. They seem to be considered as subhuman by the men!

What does it mean to call for a government of national reconciliation? From the point of view of Haiti’s poor majority, it effectively means abandoning democracy.

This seems to be a bad week for Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo who celebrated her 59th birthday April 5 as criticisms against her and her administration are mounting.

With several protesters killed, hundreds wounded, and thousands jailed, opposition political parties in Nepal have extended a recently called general strike indefinitely.

Cola-Cola claims to be committed to ‘protecting and preserving the environment’. However, in India Coca-Cola has been accused of creating severe water shortages, polluting the soil and groundwater, distributing toxic waste as fertilizer to farmers and selling sub-standard drinks...

U.S. Camp Hansen and Camp Schwab occupy 51 percent of the land area of Ginoza Village... We don't want the sky over the village to be occupied by the U.S. military.

The recent statement made by the US Homeland Security Department is not a goodwill gesture, but an additional component of a twisted political campaign meant to obstruct justice and give protection to a faithful servant of imperialist interests.

The lack of news and reliable information in Uzbekistan has worsened since the uprising in Andijan in May 2005, when authorities reacted to a demonstration in the eastern city by opening fire and killing hundreds of unarmed civilians.

The US has deliberately tried to marginalize the International Atomic Agency because of its findings that Iran was in “substantial compliance.”

Political activists claim that the government wants to repress the democratic rallies held in protest of the authoritarian rule of the monarch...King Gyanendra seized absolute rule over the country on 1 February 2005

We don't say that publicly, but honesty isn't a trait this country is noted for. Neither is honor, integrity or practicing the high principles we espouse.

800 women and women’s advocates marched on and around the Georgia Capitol today at a rally sponsored by Georgia for Choice.

India has detonated nuclear bombs in the past and hasn't signed on to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. Yet, Condoleeza Rice said yesterday that India differs from Iran because the U.S. had asked India to "adhere to many of the important elements of the guidelines that are making up the nonproliferation regime."

Current Bush administration policy on the global fight against AIDS is failing, a new study by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) shows.

US president George W Bush released the latest US National Security Strategy in Washington on March 17, 2006. The NSS is the definitive US strategic policy document which, by law, is supposed to be announced annually but has now been released after a gap of four years.

The regressive royal regime has barbarously been mounting its repression on the peaceful demonstrators belonging to the seven-party alliance (SPA).