IRIN – humanitarian news and analysis CHAGHCHARAN, 30 July 2008 (IRIN) – The UN World Food Programme’s (WFP’s) food-for-education programme has been adversely affected by recent attacks on aid convoys: Some 300,000 primary school children, mostly in southern provinces, have… Continue Reading
Analysis by Adam Morrow and Khaled Moussa al-Omrani CAIRO, Jul 31 (IPS) – For decades, the U.S. has jealously guarded its role of sole arbiter of the Arab-Israeli dispute. In light of recent shows of support for Israel by U.S.… Continue Reading
Interview with Cecilia Alemany, Association for Women’s Rights in Development VANCOUVER, Canada, Jul 30 (IPS) – For women’s rights and women’s empowerment groups, the 3rd High Level Conference on Aid Effectiveness in Accra, in September, and the U.N. Conference on… Continue Reading
Honorable European Governments and Parliamentarians Some of our ancestors, a few, or many, or all of them, came from Europe. The world received these immigrant workers from Europe with generosity. Now, with the new European Directive on Forced Return of… Continue Reading
Sami Yousafzai and Ron Moreau NEWSWEEK The insurgents are closing in on Kabul, not in order to overrun the capital but to terrorize its residents and drive away investors. It’s working. Faridoon stares in alarm at the two NEWSWEEK reporters… Continue Reading
By Tarjei Kidd Olsen OSLO, Jul 29 (IPS) – Despite a reduction in the number of violent conflicts around the world, the number of internal refugees has soared to levels not seen since the end of the cold war.
Interview with Mohamed Bassyouni, head of the Egyptian Shura Council’s Foreign Relations Committee CAIRO, Jul 28 (IPS) – Sharing a border with both Israel and the Gaza Strip, Egypt has historically played a major role in Israeli-Palestinian affairs. Egyptian involvement… Continue Reading
João Pedro Stedile Lately, all over the world, we have witnessed an out-and-out offensive of big business and international capital and financiers to promote what they chose to call “biofuelsâ€, referring to agrofuels. As we have pointed out at the… Continue Reading
By Julio Godoy BERLIN, Jul 25 (IPS) – The extraordinary enthusiasm with which Germans greeted U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama in Berlin Thursday may have concealed a fear: once the presidency of George W. Bush ends, Germans might be forced… Continue Reading
BBC Life expectancy for people with HIV has increased by an average of 13 years since the late 1990s thanks to better HIV treatment, a study says. Researchers said it meant HIV was now effectively a chronic condition like diabetes,… Continue Reading
ANSA Alfano law ends 14 years of ‘persecution’, PM says (ANSA) – Rome, July 24 – Premier Silvio Berlusconi on Thursday said a law passed this week giving him immunity from prosecution while he holds office was ”the least that… Continue Reading
By Petar Hadji-Ristic ROME, Jul 24 (IPS) – Nine countries have taken major steps towards jettisoning the death penalty over the past 18 months, leaving just a quarter of nations left to abolish the practice, according to the 2008 report… Continue Reading
Esther Vivas During the last months, the impossibility to access food has thrown thousands of people in Southern countries, out of their home. Demonstrations, strikes and protests have repeatedly taken place from one end of the planet to the other.… Continue Reading
Analysis by Jonathan G. Dorn* WASHINGTON, Jul 23 (IPS) – After emerging in 2006 from 15 years of hibernation, the solar thermal power industry experienced a surge in 2007, with 100 megawatts of new capacity coming online worldwide. During the… Continue Reading
Interview with climate expert Sir David King BARCELONA, Spain, Jul 22 (IPS) – Humanity faces enormous challenges at the start of the 21st century, says Sir David King, Britain’s former chief scientific advisor and now director of the Smith School… Continue Reading
By Hazel Henderson President, Ethical Markets Media, USA We all know the story of the tulip mania, a favorite but short-lived asset of Europeans in the 1700s. Gold has always been a favorite safe haven in spite of its volatility… Continue Reading
IRIN – humanitarian news and analysis PHNOM PENH, 20 July 2008 (IRIN) – The production of sassafras oil, which is used to make the recreational drug ecstasy, in southwest Cambodia, is destroying trees, the livelihoods of local inhabitants and wreaking… Continue Reading
By Tito Drago MADRID, Jul 21 (IPS) – The participants at the World Conference on Dialogue in Madrid have proposed that the United Nations create an interreligious council. The Jul. 16-18 conference, which was attended by 250 people representing Islam,… Continue Reading
By David A. Fahrenthold and Juliet Eilperin Washington Post Staff Writers Friday, July 18, 2008. Climate change will pose “substantial” threats to human health in the coming decades, the Environmental Protection Agency said yesterday — issuing its warnings about heat… Continue Reading
Analysis by Gareth Porter* WASHINGTON, Jul 18 (IPS) – The U.S. decision to send the State Department’s third-ranking official to sit in on the meeting between European Union foreign affairs chief Javier Solana and Iran’s nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili Saturday… Continue Reading
