By Mario Osava PORTO ALEGRE, Brazil, Jan 28 , 2010 (IPS) – Democratising economics as well as politics is essential for ending irrationality and discrimination as part of the struggle for social and environmental justice, said participants at one of… Continue Reading
From The Economist print edition If not this year, if not next year… Jan 28th 2010 . THE experts have now combed through all the case files of those still held at the Guantánamo Bay prison camp in Cuba and… Continue Reading
By Mario Soares (*) LISBON, Jan (IPS) I have been a sincere admirer of yours since I started following your writing and speaking about your plans during the presidential campaign. I admire your humanism, your culture, your valour, and your… Continue Reading
BY BADRIYA KHAN* IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis (IDN) – The UN has called on U.S. and other countries to put an end to their secret detention policies and human rights abuses in their so-called global war on terrorism. It has failed, however,… Continue Reading
BY IDN GLOBAL CORRESPONDENT IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis (IDN) – About 500 million smallholder farms provide for 20 percent of world food production and almost 2 billion people comprising one third of humanity depend on what these smallholder farms produce. The farm… Continue Reading
By Leonardo Padura (*) HAVANA, JAN (IPS) Haiti was the first independent country of Latin America. In the last years of the 18th century the French colony of Santo Domingo, which occupied the western half of the island of Hispaniola… Continue Reading
By Mario Osava PORTO ALEGRE, Brazil, Jan 25, 2010 (IPS) – A call issued by social movements to evolve towards a more active role in generating concrete action marked the opening session of a seminar assessing the 10 years of… Continue Reading
By Lisa Miller | NEWSWEEK (*) The frustrating theology of suffering From the magazine issue dated Jan 25, 2010 Haiti is surely a Job among nations. It is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere: half its population lives on… Continue Reading
By Mario Osava RIO DE JANEIRO, Jan 24, 2010 (IPS) – The World Social Forum (WSF) is only “a tool” and must not be confused with the global movement for another world, says Chico Whitaker, one of the founders of… Continue Reading
Umberto Mazzei * The essential element of indulgences is assigning a person the merits made by others. The basic doctrine was that prayer and good works had a value in divine mercy that accumulated and became the “Treasury of the… Continue Reading
By Ron Howell* NEW YORK, Jan 22, 2010 (IPS) – Throughout the New York region, but especially in Brooklyn and Queens, there is measured relief that the U.S. is finally addressing a longstanding issue: that of thousands of Haitians who… Continue Reading
Reprieve* President Obama needs the EU now more than ever to help him close Guantánamo Bay. His promise to renounce the prison has aroused damaging hostility within the United States. By contrast, European countries applauded his promise. Now these countries… Continue Reading
By Daisaku Ikeda (*) TOKYO, Jan (IPS) – The smiling faces and laughing voices of children are the true measure of a peaceful and healthy society, much more so than any statistical indices. In 1996, I visited Costa Rica to… Continue Reading
BY BABUKAR KASHKA IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis NAIROBI (IDN) – You may righty complain of having to go through bureaucratic paperwork and wait in long queues before getting a permission to – say — paint a wall with your favourite colour. Well,… Continue Reading
By Marwaan Macan-Markar IPS interviews KISHALI PINTO-JAYAWARDENA, Sri Lankan human rights advocate BANGKOK, Jan 20, 2010 (IPS) – Sri Lanka’s nearly three decades of civil war may be over, but questions about war crimes and gross human rights violations committed… Continue Reading
By Matthias Gebauer and Carsten Volkery – Der Spiegel UN Report Claims Bribes Equal to Quarter of GDP Need a driver’s license in Kabul? $180 will get you one within hours. $60,000 will get you out of jail in Afghanistan.… Continue Reading
BY IDN GLOBAL DESK IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis (IDN) – As the UN climate change secretariat prepares for the first global round of post-Copenhagen meetings at its headquarters in June in Bonn, an international coalition of investor groups is calling for concluding… Continue Reading
Reprieve * Reprieve report evaluates President Obama’s first year In his first days in office President Obama issued executive orders that appeared to draw back from the worst excesses of the Bush era, stopping the CIA from running prisons, banning… Continue Reading
Analysis by A.D. McKenzie PARIS, Jan 17, 2010 (IPS) – As thousands of people filled Notre Dame Cathedral here Saturday evening in a special mass for victims of the earthquake in Haiti, the solidarity and sadness reflected the historical ties… Continue Reading
BY RAMESH JAURA IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis BERLIN (IDN) – Global development cooperation backed by financial grants or extremely low-interest and long-term loans, has for long been considered vital to overcoming the woes of middle-income and poor countries. But this can only… Continue Reading
