Marty Logan MONTREAL, Sep 30 (IPS) – Unless the debts of the poorest African nations are completely forgiven, those countries stand no chance of achieving the world’s development goals by the target date of 2015, says a United Nations report… Continue Reading
Today show Updated: 1:13 p.m. ET Sept. 30, 2004 Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter turns 80-years-old this October. “Todayâ€? host Katie Couric recently sat down with Carter in Atlanta, Ga., to talk about the war in Iraq, if he thinks… Continue Reading
Marian Chiriac BUCHAREST, Sep 29 (IPS) – Tired of asking her husband to read soap opera subtitles on TV, Tasia Stanescu decided to learn to read them herself. Tasia, 29, joined a group of other Roma women in Zanea in… Continue Reading
By Dana Priest and Thomas E. Ricks The Washington Post Updated: 12:30 a.m. ET Sept. 29, 2004 A growing number of career professionals within national security agencies believe that the situation in Iraq is much worse, and the path to… Continue Reading
Jim Lobe WASHINGTON, Sep 28 (IPS) – Three years of the Bush administration’s ”war on terrorism” appears to have reduced the appetite of the U.S. public and its leaders for unilateral military engagements, according to a major survey released Tuesday… Continue Reading
By Emily Wax The Washington Post Updated: 5:21 a.m. ET Sept. 28, 2004 EL FASHER, Sudan – As the sun set over this desert camp, Pvt. Lambert Sendegeya, an African Union soldier from Rwanda, popped in a tape of music… Continue Reading
Marwaan Macan-Markar BANGKOK, Sep 27 (IPS) – For Habiba Sarabi, Afghanistan’s minister of women’s affairs, the quest to secure women’s rights in her country remains a daunting task and it begins with fundamentals such as the expression of ”gender equality.”… Continue Reading
Freedom Thinking Native Nations Protest the “Dawn of Genocide of Lewis and Clark” While a stone-faced Thomas Jefferson looks on from atop Mt. Rushmore, modern-day Lewis and Clark wannabes and a few descendants are commemorating Jefferson’s initial plan of cultural… Continue Reading
Joyce Mulama NAROK, Kenya, Sep 24 (IPS) – Judy Santeyan and her sister Dorcas Keiwua have been badly mutilated, after being forced by eight persons to undergo unsafe traditional circumcision in Kenya. Santeyan, 16, and Keiwua, 14, both traumatised, cry… Continue Reading
There are many in Europe who want to keep Turkey out of the EU because it is large, poor and, most important, because it is Muslim By Fareed Zakaria Newsweek Sept. 27 issue – Here’s a quiz: over the past… Continue Reading
By Mona Zughbi Reporter NBC News As the 2004 presidential election draws near, recent polls indicate a sharp decline in popularity for President Bush among a segment of the population that was pretty equally divided in 2000: the nation’s Arab-American… Continue Reading
Stefania Bianchi Fresh challenges and opportunities for EU development policy will be explored at a critical meeting next week. BRUSSELS, Sep 23 (IPS) – Fresh challenges and opportunities for EU development policy will be explored at a critical meeting next… Continue Reading
Joyce Mulama The killing remains vivid in their minds. And the deep scars on their bodies will for a long time remind them of the slaughter of their compatriots at a refugee camp in the tiny central African nation of… Continue Reading
Leonardo Boff There are many factors that led to the war against Iraq: economic (oil), political (world hegemony), ideological (to do globalization following Northamerican molds) and others. One, I believe, is like the tread of a collar that sustains all… Continue Reading
Stephen Leahy BROOKLIN, Canada, Sep 20 (IPS) – Hurricane Ivan, the incredibly powerful storm that killed at least 120 people in the Caribbean and southern United States, may be a harbinger of the Earth’s hotter future, say experts. “As the… Continue Reading
Five years after Nato’s attack on Yugoslavia, its administration in Kosovo is pushing through mass privatisation Neil Clark Tuesday September 21, 2004 The Guardian ‘Wars, conflict – it’s all business,” sighs Monsieur Verdoux in Charlie Chaplin’s 1947 film of the… Continue Reading
Report of the UN Secretary-General on the Proposals of the High Level Panel on Civil Society This report has been prepared in Response to the report of the Panel of Eminent Persons on United Nations–Civil Society Relations (Cardoso Report).
Sanjay Suri LONDON, Sep 20 (IPS) – Climate control is a good idea, but it can also be good business. Companies can make profit and do the world a favour, or so British companies are being told. That message went… Continue Reading
Antoaneta Bezlova BEIJING, Sep 17 (IPS) – Two high-profile envoys of the Dalai Lama, the exiled spiritual leader of Tibet, have arrived in China amidst hopes that their visit could lead to a substantive dialogue with the Chinese government after… Continue Reading
As Iraqi frustration mounts over sovereignty, Americans have a place to dance and eat pizza By Scott Johnson Newsweek Sept. 20 issue – President George W. Bush and his advisers like to say that sovereignty has been returned to the… Continue Reading
