Full Coverage: North America

31.05.2005 While girls' education and equality are major international development goals, the difficulties faced by the fairer sex is often overlooked in the world's most prosperous country. A former girl gang member has founded the Blossom Program for Girls in her Brooklyn neighborhood, where 72 percent of children are born into poverty and girls are particular victims of the poverty and violence around them.

31.05.2005 Imagine a film festival that runs year round, is available free from the comfort of your computer screen, and will challenge your understanding of issues from race and military service to climate change, drug addiciton, youth violence and media ownership. These 16 short films--running 30 seconds to eight minutes long--prove the amazing potential of film to change how we see and interact with the world around us.

31.05.2005 WASHINGTON, D.C., May 31 (OneWorld) - Month-long U.N. talks on halting the spread of nuclear weapons have ended with no agreement on how to update and strengthen the 35-year-old Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).

30.05.2005 Heroin sourced in Afghanistan will again dominate world markets following news that the opium harvest has increased, much against the intent of coalition forces. As well as blaming President Karzai, US officials in Kabul say that Britain has lead responsibility for eradication programmes.

30.05.2005 The Bush administration is making a final push for Congressional passage of a free trade agreement with five Central American countries and the Dominican Republic, but claims that it will improve economies and strengthen freedom and democracy in Central America are not even supported by a majority in the Republican-led U.S. Congress, says In These Times senior editor David Moberg.

30.05.2005 The Bush administration's new interpretation of a pair of laws would withhold HIV/AIDS funds from U.S.-based as well as foreign organizations unless they sign a pledge to oppose prostitution. Over 200 groups and individuals have written to President Bush opposing the pledge requirement, saying it will cause groups to alienate the very populations they're trying to help.

30.05.2005 Yhdysvallat on vuoden 2001 syyskuun terrori-iskujen jälkeen lisännyt asekauppaansa eräiden maailman epädemokraattisimpien ja sortavimpien hallitusten kanssa. Maat, joka ovat liittyneet Yhdysvaltain "sotaan terrorismia vastaan" tai tukeneet sen miehitysjoukkoja Irakissa ja Afganistanissa, ovat hyötyneet reippaasti viime vuosien asekaupoista ja sotilasavusta, tuore selvitys kertoo.

30.05.2005 Canada has been advertised the same way for 65 years, based on Mounties, mountains, and moose. But Canada is known for different things now: Unmarked envelopes full of cash. Unprecedented rancour and turmoil. Lust. Betrayal. Intrigue. And the Mounties aren't riding horses anymore -- they're chasing ad executives. Instead of lamenting these developments, why don't we capitalize on them?

30.05.2005 This is the webcast of "Empire and Resistance, from Vietnam to Iraq" by Tariq Ali. The London-based Ali was a leader of the movement against the war in Vietnam, and remains a prominent figure in today's anti-war movement. He visited Vancouver recently.

27.05.2005 Otto donne. Voci femminili a raccontarci della fertilità dei loro moti interiori. Come la Luna, che getta ombre nella notte che a loro volta sanno evidenziare zone altrimenti ignorate di giorno, così si susseguono sorprendenti i punti di vista di queste calde espressioni sentite, il lato femminile del cuore di Dio. Moderatrice della serata dell’Altro G8 è la nota giornalista Isabella Bossi Fedrigotti, attenta a cogliere i punti focali d’ogni intervento.

26.05.2005 Foreign governments should launch independent investigations into torture allegations against U.S. troops to determine where the ultimate responsibility lies, said Amnesty International Wednesday, launching its annual report on the state of human rights worldwide. And fault is found as high as Rumsfeld, Bush, Tenet or others, they should receive the same treatment the Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet got--arrest and trial.

26.05.2005 With confidence in the Pentagon at its lowest levels since the Vietnam War, explaining away the Abu Ghraib tortures as the work of a few "bad apples" is insufficient, says Col. Daniel Smith (Ret.), arguing that the repeated reports of prisoner abuse in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Guantanamo Bay point to a larger problem--one for which the Pentagon's senior policymakers should ultimately be accountable.

26.05.2005 The House of Representatives rejected a measure Wednesday calling on President Bush to devise a plan for an Iraq withdrawal. With talks of a pullout taboo a few months ago--by even progressive lawmakers--some argue that the proposal--and the 128 "yay" votes it received--indicates a change of attitude in Congress toward Iraq.

26.05.2005 As temperatures soared, U.S. Border Patrol Agents recorded their busiest weekend in history last week, with 12 deaths and 40 emergency rescues. Widespread policy failures on border immigration and smuggling have caused advocacy groups to join forces in calls for reform, as the debate no longer breaks along right-left lines.

26.05.2005 In the wake of two tainted U.S. presidential elections, Global Exchange has launched a new website--votejustice.org--to promote the work of voters rights organizations. The new portal will be a gateway for activists to find campaigns and organizations to work with and resources on actions to take and local and national events to attend.

26.05.2005 WASHINGTON, D.C., May 26 (OneWorld) - Rights watchdog Amnesty International urged foreign governments Wednesday to investigate and prosecute President George W. Bush much as they once did former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet.

26.05.2005 The injury rate at Canada Post increased in 2004; according to CPC there were 7752 injuries reported. The Union believes that these figures do not accurately reflect the rate of injury to workers. There is concern that members are not reporting injuries as they occur due to the intimidation tactics that Canada Post uses.

26.05.2005 WASHINGTON, D.C., May 26 (OneWorld) - Activists are seeking to use a European breakthrough this week to turn up the heat on some of the world's richest countries to come up with money they promised decades ago in the global fight against poverty.

26.05.2005 The European Union agreed Tuesday to set concrete timetables for fulfilling a promise the world's richer countries made in 1970 to allocate 70 cents of every $100 of national incomes to aid for poor countries. The move, which would double European aid by 2010, is expected to give a massive jolt to poor countries seeking to finally throw off the yoke of poverty.

26.05.2005 Although the last-minute deal reached by senators Monday night takes the “nuclear” option off the table, the move allowed some of President Bush's most controversial nominees to move forward and the real fight--over future Supreme Court nominations—is still to come.