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From Our Own Correspondent

Humphrey Hawksley's dispatches from the famous BBC program From Our Own Correspondent.

Triple border terror

30th January 2002

CUIDAD DEL ESTE January 2002

One of the least known battles in the war against terror is being waged in a confined area in the depths of Latin America, where the US believes Islamic fundamentalism has been able to grow unchecked. […]

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Europe’s apartheid

30th September 2001

RHODES, GREECE September 2001

The Council Europe – set up partly to eradicate genocide and racism – has launched a blistering condemnation on the way Roma gypsies are being treated. They are Europe’s biggest single minority – but, says the Council, subject to violence, racism, and exclusion from society. The European Roma Rights Centre has called it a European apartheid. […]

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The blonde and the dying

30th March 2001

ASUNCIUN, PARAGUAY, March 2001

In Paraguay, the small ethnic Indian community has vowed to make a stand against the government – which has been recently accused by the US of violating their basic human rights, of shelter, medicine and schooling. Traditionally, the Paraguayan Indians were among the most accommodating in Latin America to Spanish colonizers, but recently they’re have been an increasing number of incidents involving land rights and other disputes. The Indians make up less than a 100,000 of the 5 million population. […]

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Never to be freed

30th January 2000

ACCRA, GHANA January 2000

Human rights groups in West Africa are meeting in Ghana to try to stamp out a ritual slavery called Trokosi which is widespread in some parts. As part of religious sacrifice, young women – often under ten – are handed over to village priests as life-time slaves in order to ensure nothing bad happens to their families. The women are sexually abused and are put to heavy manual work without pay. Ghana’s new president, John Kufuor, has pledged to stamp it out. […]

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One wrong turning

30th May 1999

MONTENEGRO May 1999

NATO’s bombing campaign of Serbia in 1999, left the tiny province of Montenegro in an unenviable position. Technically still part of a disintegrating Yugoslavia, most of its citizens wanted independence. The police were loyal to Montenegro, yet the army took its orders from Belgrade. Navigating through the pitfalls was hazardous. […]

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The curse of gold

30th May 2012

The supply chain children

30th January 2012

Experiments in aid

30th January 2011

Joining the club

30th July 2010

Banking nuclear fuel

26th January 2010

The ceremony of port

30th December 2009

Dancing with the devil

30th June 2009

The Contractor’s War

30th March 2009

Sharing your man for Jesus

30th March 2009

A million good workers needed

30th October 2008

Russia’s human weapon

30th September 2008

Cold War bunker

30th August 2008

Smoke-filled rooms and the law

30th June 2008

War scars, a handshake and a beacon

26th June 2008

Make knives not war

30th March 2008

Baghdad banking and real estate boom

30th January 2008

America is our ally

30th November 2007

Russia’s red line over Kosovo

30th October 2007

Big Brother is watching us all

30th September 2007

Small town with a big heart

30th June 2007

The democratic mission

30th May 2007

How Kosovo worked

30th January 2007

Hell escape

30th November 2006

Reporting from Israel

30th August 2006

Peace? With our politicians – never

26th June 2006

Lenin and Mao – One day they’ll get it right

30th May 2006

China in the backyard

30th April 2006

Reporting from Poland

26th February 2006

Addicted to oil

26th February 2006

The boy who lived on a garbage dump

30th December 2005

Republican missionaries in New Mexico

26th November 2005

The American dream

30th July 2005

Why did they fight?

30th April 2005

Haunted by the Ottomans

27th February 2005

Empires and abortion

30th December 2004

The young political elite

30th September 2004

Beer with the Hizbollah

30th July 2004

The patriot act

30th June 2004

An economist in Patagonia

27th April 2004

Someone else in her house

28th February 2004

Big threats, no health care

30th December 2003

Inside India’s nuclear program

30th November 2003

Suicide slum

30th September 2003

The politics of SARS

30th April 2003

The Christian mission

27th February 2003

Blood cocoa

30th May 2002

The war crime pen-pushers

30th January 2002

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