November 20, 2008 The Indypendent [Americas > Mexico > Dispatches From Mexico]
	The Rule of Impunity: Mexican Government Ignores Overwhelming Evidence, Charges Oaxacan Activists with Brad Will’s Murder -- On October 27, 2006, Brad Will stood on Juarez Avenue in the municipality of Santa Lucia del Camino, Oaxaca, Mexico. He was filming a violent clash between armed, civilian-clad municipal police and officials and members of the Oaxaca Peoples’ Popular Assembly, or APPO.
November 13, 2008 Rolling Stone [Americas > Mexico]
	The War Next Door -- The dead policeman is found propped against a tree off a dirt road on the outskirts of the city. He is dressed like a cartoon version of a Mexican cowboy, wearing a sombrero and wrapped in a heavy woolen blanket.
November 11, 2008 Irin - Humanitarian news and analysis [Asia > Cambodia]
	"Sometimes I get regular women, sometimes I hire lady-boys" -- PHNOM PENH, 11 November 2008 (PlusNews) - At the end of each day, Lux, a construction worker in the Cambodian capital, Phnom Penh, goes home for supper with his wife and young children. At the weekend he leads a different life, cruising the city's most notorious male brothels, where he regularly has group sex with men while watching pornographic videos.
November 10, 2008 allAfrica.com [Africa > Uganda]
	Museveni Explains Global Crisis -- PRESIDENT Yoweri Museveni has said the slump in European and American economies is partly because African countries stopped exporting raw materials to the west.
November 07, 2008 Irin - Humanitarian news and analysis [Asia > Vietnam]
	VIETNAM: Slow recovery from floods -- HANOI, 7 November 2008 (IRIN) - Flood waters have begun to recede but parts of northern Vietnam, including neighbourhoods in Hanoi, remain under water after nearly a week of rains triggered some of the heaviest flooding in a generation.
November 07, 2008 Women of Uganda Network [Africa > Uganda]
	Decentralization of Land Management and Administration - Has anything changed for Women and Land? -- In the 1995 constitution, the government of Uganda vests land in its citizens. This it sets out to strengthen by decentralizing land administration and management as per the Land Act 1998. It is almost 10 years now down the road, but to many the policy doesn't seem to exist. What has or has not changed for women and land: A case of Lira district.
November 03, 2008 www.internal-displacement.org [Africa > Uganda]
	Focus shifts to securing durable solutions for IDPs -- Significant improvements in the security situation in northern Uganda have allowed about half of the more than 1.8 million people who had been internally displaced by the conflict to return to their villages, while another quarter have moved to transit sites nearer to their homes. While the peace process has stalled due to the repeated failure by the leader of the Lord’s Resistance Army, Joseph Kony, to sign a Final Peace Agreement, the security situation in northern Uganda has much improved since the signing of a Cessation of Hostilities Agreement between the government of Uganda and the LRA in August 2006. Large numbers of internally displaced people (IDPs) have already returned to their villages, while others are in the process of doing so. The main challenge for returning IDPs, local and national government, and Uganda’s humanitarian and development partners is now to secure durable solutions. High levels of criminal activity and a lack of capacity on the part of the police and the judicial system pose a continuing threat to the security of the population.
October 31, 2008 Irin - Humanitarian news and analysis [Africa > Uganda]
	DRC-UGANDA: Facilities overwhelmed as refugees stream to border -- KAMPALA, 31 October 2008 (IRIN) - Food, water, health and sanitation facilities at several villages on the Uganda-Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) border are overstretched as civilians continue to pour into Uganda, the UN Refugee Agency, UNHCR, said on 31 October.
October 27, 2008 Edgardo Vinicio Araya Sibaja [Americas > Costa Rica]
	Does Costa Rica deserve this "green devil"? -- Hundreds of trees and living creatures are being obliterated in Las Crucitas, the Northern Lands of Costa Rica. Local men and women are in shock to see their country's beautiful land being torn apart huge regions at a time. Spread the word of the tremendous degradation of Costa Rica's environment to help find a solution that will end this travesty.
October 23, 2008 Irin - Humanitarian news and analysis [Asia > Thailand]
	ASIA: Call for greater protection of migrant workers' rights -- Southeast and East Asian governments should intensify efforts to protect the rights of migrant workers, who are particularly vulnerable to abuse, the UN and partner agencies have urged.
October 23, 2008 Irin - Humanitarian news and analysis [Africa > Uganda]
	Post-traumatic stress rife in the north -- Sleepless nights, flashbacks and hallucinations have become normal for Michael Ocira, a former soldier in the rebel Ugandan Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), which has waged a civil war in the north for more than two decades.
October 23, 2008 Irin - Humanitarian news and analysis [Africa > South Africa]
	Land redistribution back on the front burner -- A combination of political flux, higher food prices and the failure of the ruling African National Congress (ANC) - after 14 years of power - to achieve any meaningful redress of apartheid's most emotive legacy is forcing the land issue to the top of the national agenda, a few months ahead of South Africa's fourth democratic elections.
October 20, 2008 Irin - Humanitarian news and analysis [Asia > Cambodia]
	Residents flee as war fears stirred up -- After three Cambodian soldiers were killed in an intense gun battle with Thai troops at Veal Antri on 15 October, Cambodians have been fleeing their homes at the border, fearing more violence.
October 10, 2008 Sacramento Bee [Americas > Mexico]
	Candidates' silence on immigration irks Latinos -- Two presidential debates later, and still no comment from John McCain or Barack Obama on the issue of illegal immigration.
October 06, 2008 Irin - Humanitarian news and analysis [Africa > Uganda]
	UGANDA: Shrubs and leaves on the menu as Karamoja food shortages increase -- NAWAIKOROT, 6 October 2008 (IRIN) - Angelina Abura cradled her malnourished child in Nawaikorot, Moroto District of the Karamoja region, as she waited for his polio vaccination, thinking of her next meal.
October 03, 2008 La Jornada [Americas > Mexico]
	Rethinking NAFTA After the Wall Street Meltdown -- Competing for the votes of industrial workers during last Spring’s Democratic Party primary, both Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton pledged to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement in order to add protections for workers and the environment.
October 02, 2008 Irin - Humanitarian news and analysis [Africa > Uganda]
	UGANDA: Karamoja region is "worst place to be a child" -- NAMUDUKA, 2 October 2008 (IRIN) - The remote Karamoja region of northeastern Uganda has such poor health indicators that up to 100 children younger than five die each week, many of preventable illnesses, officials said.
October 02, 2008 Pambazuka Nwes [Africa > South Africa]
	Struggle with no borders: Capitalism, nationalism and xenophobia in South Africa -- In a potent critique of the post-apartheid state and its role in the wave of xenophobic discrimination to have gripped the South African nation, Dale T. McKinley explores the roots of the country’s ‘macro-nationalist paradigm’ and its consequences in the shape of the contemporary pogroms of African foreigners.
October 02, 2008 Pambazuka Nwes [Africa > South Africa]
	Pambazuka News Statement on the change of leadership of the ANC government -- Amandla Publishers agrees with Archbishop Emeritus and the Nobel Peace Laureate Desmond Tutu that ‘[i]f South Africa was a democracy, there had to be certainty that those who led it were as uncorrupt as possible. It is a court of law that will ultimately decide whether [leaders are or not].’ Through publishing its bi-monthly Amandla! magazine, Amandla Publishers contributes to building left and working class organisations and debates.
September 24, 2008 Mail & Guardina On Line [Africa > South Africa]
	Mbeki resignation sparks concerns for Zim deal -- South African President Thabo Mbeki's resignation has raised new concerns about the fragile power-sharing deal he brokered just one week ago in neighbouring Zimbabwe, analysts said on Wednesday.
September 20, 2008 Common Dreams [Americas > Mexico]
	A Violent Mexican “Independence” Day -- Throughout Mexican modern history, millions have gathered in the country's central squares every year on the eve of our Independence Day, September 16, to give out the traditional "shout" of independence. This year, the celebration turned into tragedy in the city of Morelia...
September 17, 2008 Irin - Humanitarian news and analysis [Asia > Cambodia]
	CAMBODIA: Human trafficking likely to increase -- Trafficking in Cambodia is set to rise with the sharp increase in food and fuel prices, according to humanitarian workers.
September 11, 2008 The Christian Science Monitor [Americas > Mexico]
	Is Mexico the new China? -- Mexico City - Just as Mexico was becoming the rising star of global manufacturing in the 1990s, China's even cheaper wages turned that country into the world's factory.
September 04, 2008 The New York Times [Asia > India]
	Violence in India Is Fueled by Religious and Economic Divide -- TIANGIA, India — Those who came to attack Christians here early last week set their trap well, residents say.
September 03, 2008 Irin - Humanitarian news and analysis [Asia > Cambodia]
	CAMBODIA: Gambling fuels poverty -- POI PET, 2 September 2008 (IRIN) - In a dimly lit room in a frontier town along the Thai-Cambodian border, a man slaps down a card on the table, having bet all his daily earnings as a motorbike taxi driver.
September 03, 2008 The Guardian [Americas > Mexico]
	Competing for America's business -- Even before the Olympics, China struck fear across the world. To westerners, China steals our shirts and jobs, pirates our technologies and pollutes "our" atmosphere. Developing countries are no stranger to such concern - particularly Mexico.
September 03, 2008 Irin - Humanitarian news and analysis [Africa > Kenya]
	KENYA: From rubbish dump to cabbage patch -- NAIROBI, 3 September 2008 (IRIN) - Rubbish is everywhere in Kibera, Africa’s largest slum, just a few kilometres from the centre of Nairobi. It lies not just between the ramshackle dwellings, but often underneath them, rendering them vulnerable to collapse in times of flood.
September 01, 2008 Irin - Humanitarian news and analysis [Africa > South Africa]
	SOUTH AFRICA: Food security under threat -- JOHANNESBURG, 1 September 2008 (IRIN) - South Africans' food security - particularly the urban and rural poor, is under threat.
August 29, 2008 Irin - Humanitarian news and analysis [Asia > Vietnam]
	VIETNAM: Dramatic rise in child abuse cases -- HANOI, 29 August 2008 (IRIN) - When Tran Van De strikes his grandchildren, he says he does it out of love. "I know it hurts; it hurts me too," says the 68-year old retiree, a grandfather of four. "But it helps them become good citizens. That was the way I was taught when I was a child. It's not abuse. I love my grandchildren. How could I abuse them?"
August 27, 2008 Irin - Humanitarian news and analysis [Asia > Thailand]
	THAILAND: Protests against Thai leader intensify -- BANGKOK, 27 August 2008 (IRIN) - For a last-stage lung cancer patient like Arom Meechai, travelling all night from her home town in Nakhon Si Thammarat Province to protest at Government House is what she will remember for the rest of her life.