Desiree Evans

August 6, 2008 - The 17th International AIDS Conference opened this week in Mexico City, with appeals for the international community not to slow down its fight against a disease that has claimed more than 25 million lives.

August 5, 2008 - The closing of FEMA trailer parks, hastened by unhealthy levels of formaldehyde in the trailers, has highlighted continued problems faced by Katrina evacuees three years after the disaster: the lack of affordable housing, inadequate social safety nets, and the risk of falling into homelessness.

August 5, 2008 - Texas plans to ignore the World Court today by executing a Mexican national. Last month, the World Court ordered the U.S.

August 1, 2008 - Tuesday the U.S.

August 1, 2008 - CNN reports that FEMA officials were subjected to sharp questioning in Thursday's joint congressional hearing that examined how FEMA supplies meant for Katrina and Rita victims sat unused and were ultimately marked as surplus and distributed to other states and federal agencies.

August 1, 2008 - A bipartisan commission held a hearing Thursday to investigate illegal housing discrimination practices following Hurricane Katrina. The day-long hearing held in Houston, entitled "The Re-Segregation on the Gulf Coast in the Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina," represents the second leg of the new commission's five-city investigation on the state of fair housing in America.

July 30, 2008 - The Times-Picayune reports that repeated changes in rules for the Road Home recovery program have made it more difficult for applicants to collect the same grants they were once promised by the program.