By Tharanga Yakupitiyage UNITED NATIONS, Jun 28 2017 (IPS) – Investing in the health of the poorest communities saves almost twice as many lives, according to a UN agency’s analysis. In a new report titled “Narrowing the Gaps: The Power of Investing in the Poorest Children,” the…
By Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein* LONDON, Jun 27 2017 (IPS) – “Earlier this month, Britain’s Prime Minister called for human rights laws to be overturned if they were to “get in the way” in the fight against terrorism. Specifically, Theresa May said there was a need “to restrict the…
by Jim Lobe – lobelog.com Given the fast-moving events in the Persian Gulf region over the past two weeks, LobeLog decided to consult Chas W. Freeman, Jr. (1), whose occasional lectures on key foreign policy issues have been featured on this site for several years.
Francine Mestrum, Brussels , Global Social Justice At the Asia-Europe’s People’s Forum (AEPF) of July 2016 in Ulaan Bator, Mongolia, some people sat together and decided to take an initiative for a global charter on social protection rights. The main reason was that we are…
by Derek Davison * – LobeLog More than two weeks after they began boycotting Qatar, four Arab nations—Bahrain, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates—have presented the Qataris with a list of demands that they say Doha must meet in order to end this ongoing Persian…
By IPS World Desk ROME, Jun 23 2017 (IPS) – Record high temperatures are gripping much of the globe and more hot weather are to come. This implies more drought, more food insecurity, more famine and more massive human displacements.
Polychroniou – Truthout Interview Since the late 1970s, the world’s economy and dominant nations have been marching to the tune of (neoliberal) globalization, whose impact and effects on average people’s livelihood and communities everywhere are generating great popular…
By Secretary-General António Guterres* UNITED NATIONS, Jun 21 2017 (IPS) – It is impossible to be ten years as High Commissioner for Refugees, doing my best to try to help the most vulnerable of the vulnerable, without changing your life. And, indeed, not only witnessing the…
by Jim Lobe* and Giulia McDonnell Nieto del Rio – Lobelog The Washington elite is waking up to the increasingly real possibility that the Trump administration may be moving the country into yet another Middle East war. And much more quickly than anyone had anticipated. And…
Robert Fisk* – The Independent It is instructive that the West now expresses more outrage at the use of gas – it blames the Assad regime for this, of course – than at the continued cruelty of Isis The extraordinary destruction of a Syrian fighter jet by a US aircraft on Sunday…
