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...been prohibited by the Home Ministry from using the word in their publications since 2007, can now use the term. She also rescinded the prohibition order that forbade the Malay-language edition of the Catholic monthly the Herald to use Allah to denote the Christian God. After widespread protests, however, the judge granted a stay order on Jan. 7, the same day the government appealed to the higher Court of Appeal to overturn the ruling...
...widespread condemnation of Wickrematunge's murder did little to change the restrictions on the media. For months after the civil war was declared over, journalists were not permitted to travel to or report in the former conflict zone in the island's north, and they still need permission to visit camps where those displaced by the war remain, or to speak with those who have returned to their former villages. Similar authorization is required to visit and write on the accelerated development and resettlement process now under way in the Vanni, the former conflict zone in northern Sri Lanka...
...Countering both widespread cultural biases and an indifferent government has been an uphill battle. After nearly a decade of campaigning by activists, with Wong in the forefront, Hong Kong's government in July 2008 put into effect its first anti-racial-discrimination legislation, which in theory allows individual residents to take action against businesses and employers that have discriminated against them because of their skin color. But the law is difficult to enforce and, unlike other ordinances covering gender and disability, exempts many government bodies. A U.N. committee on eliminating racial discrimination, based in Geneva, voiced concerns over...
Although homegrown terrorism is not a widespread problem, the report's authors warn that antiterrorism policies that alienate American Muslim communities may increase the threat. "Our research suggests that initiatives that treat Muslim-Americans as part of the solution to this problem are far more likely to be successful," said David Schanzer, director of Duke University's Triangle Center on Terrorism and Homeland Security, in a statement...
...doubt that the steady push of refugees from the Horn of Africa into Yemen is proving taxing for a country on the brink of becoming the world's next failed state. Yemen simply doesn't have the resources to deal with multiple insurgencies, a water crisis, development woes, unemployment, widespread poverty and a refugee issue all at once. The country's foreign minister, Abubaker Abdullah al-Qirbi, told TIME in an interview in his office in early December: "The challenge is enormous . . . [The refugees] pose a lot of problems, both [security-related] and also pressure on our education and health...