Full Coverage: North America

31.10.2007 NEW YORK, Oct 31 (OneWorld) - Traditionally, it's the kids who receive sweets from the elders on Halloween, but that years-old ritual is getting a makeover this year in hundreds of communities across North America.

31.10.2007 A foundation dedicated to nonviolent social change honors an outspoken conscientious objector, a prison gardener, and an organization that gives kids an alternative to gang-membership.
From: New America Media

31.10.2007 Under the pretense of locating criminal fugitives, U.S. immigration officers are raiding, without search warrants, the homes of American citizens and legal residents that they believe may be illegal immigrants, writes Henry Fernandez.
From: Center for American Progress

29.10.2007 NEW YORK, Oct 29 (OneWorld) - Donald Rumsfeld, the former U.S. secretary of defense, is facing criminal charges in France for ordering the torture of prisoners in Iraq and at the military prison at Guantanamo Bay.

29.10.2007 Bangladeshi bloggers are beginning to reveal the truth about domestic violence among Bangladeshis living in America. The crime's secretive nature keeps it largely under wraps.

28.10.2007 The U.S. Congress must put human rights conditions on a $500 million aid package for Mexican counter-narcotics programs whose "appalling" record includes beating and sexually abusing many detainees, said Human Rights Watch.
From: Human Rights Watch

27.10.2007 NEW YORK, Oct 26 (OneWorld) - Preparation for nationwide protests against the Bush administration's war plans against Iran and the continued occupation of Iraq are in full swing.

27.10.2007 Spanish-language news and radio stations initially provided poor coverage of the devastating California fires, though the coverage did increase. Hispanic media is reporting that farm workers and undocumented immigrants are most vulnerable because they do not want to or cannot leave.
From: New America Media

25.10.2007 Voiko maailmantalous romahtaa, jos Yhdysvalloissa myydään talojen ihmisille, joilla ei oikeastaan ole niihin varaa? Mahdollisesti. Globalisaation vuoksi paikallinen ahneus voi saada koko maailmankirjat sekaisin.

25.10.2007 A century ago, working conditions in U.S. factories were extremely poor and death and injury were a part of everyday life. A slideshow reveals that while the United States has solved this problem on its own soil, it persists in the land of America's factory, China.

24.10.2007 NEW YORK, Oct 24 (OneWorld) - Some of the nation's leading performing artists are calling for the U.S. Congress to roll back the Bush administration's policy on global HIV/AIDS funds requiring abstinence from sex until marriage.

24.10.2007 Is ethanol a green fuel? Will ethanol revitalize rural America? Advocates for environmentally sustainable energy choices debunk six myths about the fuel -- often made from corn -- that has been upheld by some as a panacea for global warming.

24.10.2007 After eight years of military service, Camilo Mejía became the first Iraq soldier to be prosecuted for refusing to fight, citing his moral objections to the war and occupation. Mejía is now a zealous antiwar activist and was recently featured, with several colleagues, in a roundtable discussion to educate the public on the situation in Iraq.

23.10.2007 Some expressed outrage and others jubilation -- a diverse group of Americans, Armenians, and Turks recorded online their reactions to the U.S. Congressional resolution to consider the mass killings of Armenians in early 20th century Ottoman Turkey as genocide.

23.10.2007 Europe's share of the world's 100 largest cities has fallen from more than half to under 10 per cent in the past century and it now has none of the world's 100 fastest-growing cities and most of its declining ones.

22.10.2007 WASHINGTON, Oct 22 (OneWorld) - A Colombian senator pushing for justice and peace has been honored in the United States for his human rights activism, accepting a prestigious award alongside co-honorees from the United States challenging the war in Iraq and Washington, DC's "taxation without representation."

22.10.2007 The volume of aid donated worldwide by the United States has dropped by 2 million tons since 2000. Analysts blame increased grain prices, higher fuel costs, and a law requiring that donated food supply be bought in the United States.

22.10.2007 Investigative journalist John Pilger argues that the spirit and humanity of Michael Moore's film-making shames the supine American media.
From: New Statesman

19.10.2007 U.S. attorney general nominee Michael Mukasey mischaracterized U.S. obligations on torture, wrongly suggesting that so-called "unlawful combatants" in U.S. custody are not entitled to the humane treatment protections of the Geneva Conventions, Human Rights Watch said today.
From: Human Rights Watch

19.10.2007 The "war on terror" has been targeting the entire Muslim world while rendering Americans unable to distinguish between the average Muslim and the so-called "Islamo-Fascist," writes Phyllis Bennis.