Iran has severally criticized the film Persepollis which has won the Prize of the Jury at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival and will released for the general public in France and Belgium on June 27, 2007. The title is a reference to the historical town of...

Which country jails more journalists than any other country in the world? The clear answer is China. Freedom of Press is the fundamental guarantee which every democracy must ensure for its people and for the domestic and foreign journalists. Democracy...

Yet another prisoner (Saudi Arabian) died of an apparent suicide at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base on Wednesday. No details about the cause of death or the identity of the dead were released which legitimately raise our eye brows. He is the fourth...

Hans Kung has rightly observed, ‘there shall be no peace between or within nations without peace within and between religions.’ Lina Joy who has been disowned by her family, shunned by friends and forced into hiding because she renounced...

It is heartening to note that President Bush will today seek an approval of the Congress to the $30 billion fund for US AIDS program. The doubling of the amount for a great cause is indeed great news for the millions of people who are living with AIDS....

Tougher US sanctions are now in place against Sudan on the Darfur crises. Will these sanctions really lead to any visible and positive change on the ground is any body’s guess. Are there no solutions to the crisis which has once again shocked our...

Millions of civilians are paying the price for nearly four years of unkept promises and empty commitments. Darfur, is long calling for the imposition of strong economic, legal and military measures. Bathed in the blood of more than 200,000 innocents,...

The talks slated for today between the United States and Iran on Iraq may usher an era of new hope in the middle east as the two sides will be talking to each other for the first time after the 1979 revolution. The relations between the two have been...