Metered to death

By Jacques Pauw

How a water experiment in South Africa caused riots and a cholera epidemic

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"… percent of blacks had indoor plumbing.Despite South Africa's rating by the United Nations Development Index as a middle-to-upper-income country, one child in every …"

A society consumed with qat

By Alain Lallemand

Drug's soothing effects mask its true roles: revenue and control

Allegiance rewarded

By Marina Walker Guevara

Ethiopia reaps U.S. aid by enlisting in war on terror and hiring influential lobbyists

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"… e New York Times reported in April. The deal, a possible violation of United Nations restrictions imposed on North Korea in October 2006 because of the country …"

"… en one of the most important sponsors of the North Korean sanctions at the United Nations.Lobbyists to the rescueThe State Department's continued negative human rig …"

"… lia after the Union of Islamic Courts forces began to threaten the fragile United Nations-backed transitional government based in the southern Somali city of Baidoa …"

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Anatomy of a rendition

By Leo Sisti

In cleric's abduction in Italy, the CIA all but left a calling card

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"… Italian governments declined to join 57 other governments in signing a new United Nations treaty prohibiting governments from holding terrorism suspects in secret d …"

Post-9/11 renditions: An extraordinary violation of international law

By Michael Bilton

Some say lack of due process in kidnappings and detention at secret prisons amounts to war crimes

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"… asylum seekers were swept away — and Sweden landed in hot water with the United Nations Human Rights Committee.Extraordinary rendition may be a new term, but it i …"

U.S. treatment of detainees deplored

By Michael Bilton

Critics denounce 'waterboarding' and other interrogation techniques banned by Geneva Conventions
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Renditions vs. rights

By Marina Walker Guevara

Jordan's apparent willingness to participate in transfers of suspects trumps poor record on human rights

Sustaining an unpopular regime

By Marina Walker Guevara

In the Philippines, U.S. aid has helped bolster a government whose military is tied to extrajudicial killings

Jakarta's intelligence service hires Washington lobbyists

By Andreas Harsono and Nathaniel Heller

Former Indonesian president's foundation served as conduit for push to overturn ban on military cooperation

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"… ian troops and militia groups launched attacks in East Timor following the United Nations-administered independence referendum in 1999.In the U.S. Foreign Operation …"

Bush's AIDS initiative: Too little choice, too much ideology

By Wendell Rawls Jr.

Restrictive funding, emphasis on abstinence hinder $15 billion effort

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"… women attending prenatal clinics in 2004 was infected with AIDS. The 2006 United Nations Report on the Global AIDS Epidemic reported no clear signs of declining HI …"

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