washingtonpost.com - Nora Boustany - Diplomatic Dispatches (washingtonpost.com)Nora Boustany's Diplomatic Dispatches column appears twice weekly in The Washington Post. Read Diplomatic Dispatches for the latest news from the Washington-based diplomatic community.Risking His Life for Grass-Roots Environmentalism- April 29, 2006 S ilas Kpanan'Ayuong Siakor is more than an environmental hero. He helped save a nation.http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/linkset/2005/03/24/LI2005032402880_xml/~3/24... AIDS Crisis Shapes Bishop's Stance- April 26, 2006 South African Bishop Kevin Dowling knows where his dissenting views come from. He supports access to condoms to prevent the spread of AIDS because of his work in the slums of Rustenburg, home to the richest platinum mines in the world.http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/linkset/2005/03/24/LI2005032402880_xml/~3/24... Skills Honed in Washington Pay Off for Swede at the U.N.- April 21, 2006 Less than one year into his job as president of the U.N. General Assembly, former Swedish ambassador Jan Eliasson admits that "Washington is more fun."http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/linkset/2005/03/24/LI2005032402880_xml/~3/24... Sri Lankan Steers Parents to Peace After Loss in War- April 19, 2006 After five years of trying to get information about her son, missing after a fierce battle in the heart of rebel territory in Sri Lanka, Visaka Dharmadasa learned that 500 bodies of soldiers had been doused with kerosene and burned in a pile on the killing field where they had fought Tamil separatists.http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/linkset/2005/03/24/LI2005032402880_xml/~3/24... Fighting Back in Bangladesh- April 14, 2006 R eaz Rahman , foreign affairs adviser to the government of Bangladesh, visited Washington this week to try to allay concerns over latent Islamic militancy and to update officials on the arrests of radical leaders and their followers as political unrest continues in the country.http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/linkset/2005/03/24/LI2005032402880_xml/~3/24... A Healer Drawn Home to Congo- April 12, 2006 It is an instinctive transition for Oscar Kashala . The Congolese-born doctor has had a long, lucrative career healing people through the precision of scientific research, and now through government he hopes to heal his countrymen.http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/linkset/2005/03/24/LI2005032402880_xml/~3/24... In Releasing Writer, Kurds Ponder Press Freedom- April 7, 2006 A representative for Iraq's regional Kurdish government said Thursday in Washington that the prosecution of an Iraqi-born Kurd with Austrian citizenship had been mishandled and that his sentence was disproportionate to the wrong he committed.http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/linkset/2005/03/24/LI2005032402880_xml/~3/24... |