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Apr 7 2010 9:02AM
East End Film Festival: The Lonely Pack

East End Film Festival: Lonely Pack + shorts Date: Sun 25 April 2010 Eleven-year-old Sonu lives on the streets of Katmandu, part of a boisterous pack of street children fighting to survive in the chaotic capital of Nepal. Always on the...

Apr 6 2010 5:38PM
It's all about elections

So at last here it is the countdown to the election has finally begun. And the big question is which of the two main parties can really make a difference. Enough of the small talk, who’s going to win? Will it be the ruling United...

Apr 6 2010 3:00PM
Concern about Mahboobeh Karami's ill-health

Mahboubeh Karami, member of One Million Signature Campaign was arrested last year in Tehran and kept in solitary for 200 days. Mahboobeh had not committed any crime. Her only crime is being member of the Campaign. Last year, when her...

Apr 6 2010 12:20PM
A US war crime and cover-up?

ON 5th April 2010, WikiLeaks released a classified US military video depicting the indiscriminate slaying of over a dozen people in the Iraqi suburb of New Baghdad including two Reuters journalists. Reuters obtained the video through...

Apr 6 2010 10:12AM
Hunger striker exposes the dark side of Cuba

Rory Carroll writes in the Observer about Guillermo Farinas, a journalist who is on hunger strike in Cuba . President Raul Castro took over from his brother who was ill and there was talk of easing political and economic restrictions...