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Accused of ‘sponsoring a guerilla news agency’, Nigerian Blogger,Jonathan Elendu, has been arrested and illegally detained by theominously named Nigerian SSS.…

*Urvashi Butalia* feels betrayed by politicians on the Left who embrace globalization.…

The Facts…

A small landlocked state in central Africa, sandwiched between its vast neighbours Tanzania and Democratic Republic of Congo, Burundi has suffered as much from ethnic conflict as its other (equally tiny) neighbour, Rwanda…

*Femke van Zeijl* on the devastation caused by rape.…

Burma’s *Charm Tong* takes on the generals.…

Violence against women is a bigger killer than cancer or traffic accidents…

While womens lives have improved enormously in many ways, especially in the West, women still make up 70 per cent of the worlds poorest people and two-thirds of those who cannot read and write…

Nikki van der Gaag looks at what has changed for women over the years – and what has not.…

Special survey of people detained worldwide in The other Guantánamo Bays: reports from Diego Garcia, Egypt, Uzbekistan, Britain, New Zealand/ Aotearoa and Israel.…