News headlines in May 2010, page 6

Colombian presidential candidate Antanas Mockus said he 'shares the horror' over the so-called 'false positives' -- young civilians killed by the army and passed off as guerrilla casualties in the military's counterinsurgency campaign.

President Barack Obama will be sending 1,200 National Guard troops to patrol the U.S.-Mexico border after pressure from both Republicans and Democrats to tighten border security and increase funding to combat the flow of illegal drugs into the U.S.

The American Civil Liberties Union has launched a letter-writing campaign designed to persuade book publishers not to use the 'ideologically-slanted standards for social studies textbooks' approved by the Texas State Board of Education as a model for use in other states.

Sri Lanka's newly-appointed Foreign Minister Gamini Lakshman Peiris arrived in New York last week carrying a tough message for Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon: keep your hands off Sri Lanka.

It might be hard to imagine that a woman's attendance at a university would be contingent upon the way she dresses.

Providing technology to communities to ensure food security doesn't work if local traditions and social dynamics are not taken into account, concluded the participants in a forum here at the Fourth Assembly of the Global Environment Facility.

The 100,000 pollsters who will begin knocking on doors throughout Mexico Sunday for the national census will likely face a population hesitant to provide personal information. They may also run into the drug violence that plagues some areas of the country.

'Bridging Cultures, Building Peace' is the slogan of the third United Nations Alliance of Civilisations Forum which opens Friday in Brazil, gathering together some 3,000 heads of state, members of parliament and delegates of international bodies and civil society organisations.

A fierce debate has erupted over claims that the 2010 Soccer World Cup will fuel the trafficking of women from African and other countries to South Africa for sexual exploitation during the cup, which starts on Jun 11.

At the beginning of 2011, Australian Aboriginal woman Megan Davis will join a select group of indigenous experts from around the world.