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Opinion: Can George Clooney Help Prevent Genocide in Sudan?
By Barbara Slavin - AOL News(Oct. 13) -- George Clooney has certainly had more lavish accommodations than the hut where he stayed recently on a fact-finding tour in south Sudan. The Academy Award-winning actor returned with a stark warning: An agreement must be negotiated now about the fate of south Sudan after a Jan. 9, 2011, referendum or Africa could see another genocidal conflict on the order of Rwanda, Congo and Darfur. There is "an opportunity to prevent atrocities," Clooney told the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington on Tuesday night. "Not mopping up afterwards. ... If we do nothing, hundreds of ...
North Korean Health Throw-Down: WHO Critical of Amnesty Report
By Katie Drummond - AOL News(July 16) -- Is North Korean health care "the envy" of developed countries, or a system so low on resources that doctors are now performing amputations without anesthesia? That's a question being debated by two major international health agencies this week, after the World Health Organization today critiqued a scathing report on North Korean health care issued by Amnesty International. The report, released Thursday, offered a chilling portrait of the medical facilities, employees and equipment available to North Korean citizens. Surgery often occurs by candlelight, epidemics are spurred by ...
Amputations Without Anesthesia in NKorea
By Lauren Frayer - AOL News(July 15) -- North Korea's health system is in dire shambles, with amputations being performed without anesthesia, often under candlelight in impoverished hospitals where doctors are paid in cigarettes. That's according to a report released today by Amnesty International, outlining disastrous medical conditions in the reclusive communist state and calling on donor countries to send humanitarian aid and stop using North Korea's residents in a game of "political football" with Pyongyang. The report also notes that North Korea has refused to cooperate fully with the international community in ...
Childbirth Deaths Are Falling Worldwide, but Not in the U.S.
By Alex Wagner - Politics DailyLast week saw the release of a game-changing report on the state of maternal mortality (that is, women dying from complications related to pregnancy). According to the report, published in the medical journal The Lancet (and financed by the Gates Foundation) in the last 20 years, rates of death for pregnant women have, in large part, fallen around the globe. As The New York Times reports, "the study cited a number of reasons for the improvement: lower pregnancy rates in some countries; higher income, which improves nutrition and access to health care; more education for women; and the ...
Nicaragua's Abortion Ban Is Inhumane and Backward
By Delia Lloyd - Politics DailyIn a move that ought to raise eyebrows even among pro-life groups, the Nicaraguan government is denying cancer treatment to a woman because she is pregnant. This is only the latest outrage in a country that has one of the most restrictive abortion laws in the world. ...
Can US Be Haven for Those Who Sanction Torture?
By Richard C. Paddock - AOL NewsSAN FRANCISCO (Feb. 19) -- When Mohamed Ali Samantar, former prime minister of Somalia, arrived in the United States in 1997, he quietly took up residence in Virginia, far from the violence and chaos of his homeland. Now he has become the focal point of a Supreme Court case that will decide whether he can be held accountable in a U.S. civil court for human rights abuses allegedly carried out by military forces under his control in Somalia. On March 3, the high court will hear arguments in a civil lawsuit brought by five Somalis, including two who are now U.S. citizens. They charge they or ...
Would-Be Arsonist Catches Fire After Being Tasered
By David Knowles - AOL News(Feb. 1) -- After threatening to burn down a house, an Australian man caught fire when police shot him with a Taser gun. The 44-year-old suspect, whose name has not yet been released, had locked himself inside a house on Monday in Forrestfield, a suburb of Perth, according to the Australian Broadcasting Co. (ABC). Once inside, the man doused the building with gasoline, police said. Robin Utrecht, Getty Images Police guidelines in Australia prohibit the use of Taser guns in the presence of flammable materials. Police at the scene forced their way inside, and when they tried to arrest the ...
Saudi Court Sentences Teen Girl to Prison, Flogging
By not in system - AOL NewsRIYADH, Saudi Arabia (Jan. 24) - A teenage girl has been sentenced to a 90-lash flogging and two months in prison as punishment for assaulting a teacher, a Saudi judge said in an interview published Sunday. Human rights group Amnesty International said the assault happened after the girl was caught with a camera phone at school. The teenager's name was not immediately available. She could be spared with a pardon from King Abdullah, said Judge Riyadh al-Meihdib. "The verdict was read out to her at the court and she did not object," al-Meihdib told Al-Watan, a national Saudi daily ...
Amnesty Slams Israel's Water Policies
By Cliff Churgin - AOL NewsJERUSALEM --The conflict between Israel and the Palestinians extends to the very stuff of life: water. Amnesty International on Tuesday accused Israel of siphoning off far more than its share of scarce water supplies and leaving Palestinian residents of the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip dangerously undersupplied by a mere "trickle." According to the organization's 112-page report, released Tuesday, water shortages are hampering the Palestinian economy and damaging the health of Palestinians. Israeli critics called the report "distorted" and said it was "part of a campaign against ...
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