http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/ Headlines from the University of California, Berkeley Steve McConnell - steve.mcconnell@berkeley.edu en-US http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2009/09/16_cambodia.shtml "We cannot accept democracy fed to us by the teaspoon; we want full democracy," a Cambodian parliamentary opposition leader, Mu Sochua '81, told an audience at Berkeley in a brief and impassioned talk Sept 14. Published: 16 September http://www.berkeley.edu/news/berkeleyan/2009/09/10_hrc-anniversary.shtml Applying a raft of interdisciplinary tools and approaches to the messy reality of the international human-rights movement, the HRC serves as a bridge between academia and the practitioners and activists in the field. Published: 10 September http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2009/08/25_honduras.shtml In an online petition spearheaded by Rosemary Joyce, chair of anthropology at Berkeley, scholars and academics across the country are urging the U.S. government to sanction the de facto regime for "escalated violence directed at our counterparts in universities and research centers in Honduras." Joyce has also launched a blog - offering English-language translations of commentary from Honduras - in the wake of the June 28 ouster of President Zelaya. Published: 25 August http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2009/08/06_africadocs.shtml Hiring the workers needed to eliminate the staggering shortage of health care professionals in sub-Saharan Africa by 2015 will cost $2.6 billion a year, or 2.5 times the annual funds currently allocated for health worker wages in the region, according to a new study led by UC Berkeley researchers. Published: 06 August http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2009/08/03_hikers.shtml Two of the three hikers reportedly detained by the Iranian government last week are former UC Berkeley students who have been working as journalists in the Middle East and Africa. They are Shane Bauer, a 2007 honors graduate in peace and conflict studies, and Sarah Emily Shourd, 30, who graduated in 2003 with a B.A. in English. Published: 03 August http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2009/07/28_karlinsky.shtml Simon Karlinsky, a University of California, Berkeley, professor of Slavic languages and literature and a pioneering scholar of Russian classic and émigré literature, died in his Berkeley home on July 5 of congestive heart failure. He was 84. Published: 28 July http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2009/06/22_pathfinders.shtml University of California, Berkeley, Chancellor Robert Birgeneau is one of three recipients of the Shinnyo-en Foundation's 2009 Pathfinders to Peace Prize issued today (Monday, June 22) by the Shinnyo-en Foundation during ceremonies in San Francisco. Published: 22 June http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2009/04/27_dalailama.shtml Whether history remembers the 21st century as happy or unhappy "is in your hands," the 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, told the students at UC Berkeley campus appearance. Published: 27 April http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2009/04/25_dalaillama.shtml The Dalai Lama made his third visit to UC Berkeley on Saturday, April 25. His Holiness made a special appeal to students to help put an end to war, saying that peace begins with "personal disarmament." Published: 25 April http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2009/04/24_blum.shtml At the April 23 groundbreaking for the Richard C. Blum Center for Developing Economies' new campus home, Al Gore paid tribute to its founder and, especially, to the students whose engagement gives the center such promise to aid the world's poor. Published: 24 April http://www.berkeley.edu/news/berkeleyan/2009/04/23_putin.shtml Russia today, under Vladimir Putin, is neither autocratic nor imperialistic, Communist nor democratic, says an emeritus professor of political science. The good news? Things could be a lot worse… for the Russian people in particular. Published: 23 April http://www.berkeley.edu/news/berkeleyan/2009/04/09_journalist.shtml Only a handful of journalists operate in the border region between Afghanstan and Pakistan. One of them told a campus audience last week how the U.S. might better conduct its campaign against Islamic extremists there. Published: 09 April http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2009/03/23_narcocultura.shtml Mexico's thriving drug trade has produced not only a wave of increasingly shocking violence but a durable imprint on the culture, the renowned Latin American reporter Alma Guillermoprieto told a campus audience. Published: 23 March http://www.berkeley.edu/news/berkeleyan/2008/11/20_guantanamo.shtml A new study based on extensive interviews with former detainees at the U.S.-run prison in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, confirms that the abuses they suffered there were not only "cruel, humiliating, and degrading" - in the words of the study's authors - but "clearly [rose] to the level of torture." Published: 20 November http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2008/11/12_gitmoreport.shtml Detainees released from U.S. detention in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and Afghanistan live shattered lives as a result of U.S. policies in the war on terror, according to a new report by human rights experts at UC Berkeley. Published: 12 November