By AGORA OF THE INHABITANTS OF THE EARTH On Covid-19, Health and Global Public Goods Mr. Secretary General, The UN Economic and Social Council has alerted the international community to growing inequalities in health between the world’s populations, particularly when confronting…
By Thalif Deen* UNITED NATIONS, Sep 7 2020 (IPS) – The COVID-19 pandemic has upended the lives of millions of people worldwide, accounted for over 869,000 deaths, destabilised the global economy and triggered a marked rise in poverty and hunger in the developing world. But the…
By Medea Benjamin and Leonardo Flores (*) Election season is a difficult time to develop good policies towards Latin America, since both Democrats and Republicans cater to the small, but organized, conservative factions of the Latinx community in Florida, vying for their…
By Giles Tremlett* – The Guardian During the 1970s and 80s, eight US-backed military dictatorships jointly plotted the cross-border kidnap, torture, rape and murder of hundreds of their political opponents. Now some of the perpetrators are finally facing justice The last time…
InsightHungary!!! (*) Several hundred students of the prestigious University of Theatre and Film Arts (SzFE) in Budapest occupied a campus building on Monday amid a struggle with the government over the university’s autonomy. SzFE leaders – including the acting rector…
By Rosamaria Loures and Sarah Sax – Mongabay (*) Recognition of the role that Indigenous land plays in forest protection, biodiversity conservation and environmental health has been growing, but less attention has been paid to the role of women. An increasing body of research…
By Angel Mendoza PARIS, Aug 25 2020 (IPS) – The voices of indigenous people worldwide are being silenced and their lives made invisible. Stewards of the earth, they are left at the fringes of public discourse in countries around the globe.
Maya Goodfellow – The Guardian Priti Patel’s (UK Home Secretary) recognition of a child’s humanity in death is hollow when he was stripped of it in life by cruel border policies The human cost of the government’s border policies has been made appallingly and painfully real: a…
By Paul Jay – theAnalysis.news After three postponed elections, a date is finally set after pressure from protests across the country. Why did Evo step down?
Observer Editorial Last week’s agreement to normalise relations between Israel and the UAE does nothing to solve the Palestine impasse The principal authors of last week’s agreement to normalise relations between Israel and the United Arab Emirates – Donald Trump, Benjamin…
