Stephanie Nolen

Monitor Publications under Police Siege

monitor.co.ug — National Police have besieged Monitor Publications limited head office in Namuwongo, causing tension among journalists and management.Mr Alex Asimwe, the Monitor Publications Limited (MPL) managing director, said the situation is very 'surprising and unfortunate'."We are seeing police men wielding guns but no one is giving us a communication on what is happening."

H&M Led Labor Breakthrough by European Retailers

nytimes.com — STOCKHOLM - For a global retailer, it was the worst kind of publicity. Two weeks after the Rana Plaza building in Bangladesh collapsed in one of the worst industrial disasters in history, a brash human-rights ad went viral.

Air India Pilots Question Airline’s Safety

nytimes.com — NEW DELHI - Air India, India's unprofitable national carrier, is using "coercion and fear" to compel pilots to fly long hours and while ill, an Indian pilots' union claims. The Indian Pilots' Guild, the union that represents Air India's international pilots, made the claim in a June 14 letter to Star Alliance, a network of 27 airlines.

Criticism of State-Owned Air India Grows

nytimes.com — NEW DELHI - When Bob Haygooni paid a midflight visit to a cockpit at his new employer, Air India, he was shocked. The pilots, he said, had completely covered the windows with newspaper to keep out the sun.

Is Kagame Africa's Lincoln or a tyrant exploiting Rwanda's tragic history?

guardian.co.uk — Paul Kagame is angrier than I've ever seen him. Rwanda's president is famously direct with his critics. His contempt for governments he's crossed swords with, led by the French, is only marginally less vitriolic than his view of human-rights groups daring to lecture him, the rebel leader whose army put a stop to the 1994 genocide of 800,0000 Tutsis.