Afghanistan: Measuring what the occupation has done to women

29 November 2010. A World to Win News Service. Recent  reports by both human rights groups and Afghan officials indicate that violence against women in Afghanistan is on the rise and that this has been the trend since the beginning of the occupation of Afghanistan by the U.S. and other Nato countries.

A report published in April 2009 by the women's rights organisation Womankind said that 80 percent of Afghan women suffer from domestic...

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U.S.: New danger to the life of Mumia Abu-Jamal

22 November 2010. A World to Win News Service. Following is an edited excerpt from an article by C. Clark Kissinger that appeared in the 21 November 2010 issue of Revolution, newspaper of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA.

The largest courtroom of the federal Third Circuit Court of Appeals was packed with supporters of Mumia Abu-Jamal as a three judge panel heard the latest oral arguments in hi...

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Haiti: Surging cholera and revolt

22 November 2010. A World to Win News Service. As cholera deaths rise, Haitians are angrier than ever. They have good reason.

Protests have targeted the government and especially the main pillar of public order, the UN troops who have occupied the country since 1993.

A series of violent protests began 15 November in the country's second largest city, Cap-Haitien in the north, where the the disease struck almo...