By Karla Loya-Stack* – The Washington Post I have struggled with how to describe or define my identity since moving to the United States from Mexico at age 10—a struggle that was internalized and personal for years. After migrating to… Continue Reading
By Thalif Deen * UNITED NATIONS, Apr 6 2021 (IPS) – The 15,900-strong World Bank, which has funded over 12,000 development projects worldwide since 1947, is an international institution with a superlative reputation for its sustained efforts to end poverty… Continue Reading
Agora of the Inhabitants of the Earth Resolution of the World Assembly of 22 March 2021 Launching of the Campaign Water is a Global Public Good(*) Water continues to be a commodity, ransacked, subjected to devastating commercial and financial domination.… Continue Reading
By Fernando Ayala* – Wall Street International Magazine The fight for equal rights continues The collective Las Tesis interprets the performance “A Rapist in Your Path” together with hundreds of women The present century must be the century of the… Continue Reading
By Thalif Deen * UNITED NATIONS, Mar 12 2021 (IPS) – The United Nations says the highest levels of political power remain the furthest from achieving gender parity in an increasingly male-dominated power structure worldwide. Women serve as Heads of… Continue Reading
By Boaventura de Sousa Santos* The global rise of the far right has given new relevance to the concept of anti-system in the context of politics. In order to understand what is happening, we need to go back a few decades.… Continue Reading
By Riccardo Petrella* – Wall Street International Magazine “No one will be left behind” In the name of “national” health security, the dominant groups have taken measures that run counter to the much-vaunted objective of “no one will be left… Continue Reading
By Amy Goodman* – Democracy Now! In a landmark decision, judges at the International Criminal Court say the body has jurisdiction over war crimes committed in the Palestinian territories, opening the door to possible criminal charges against Israel and militant… Continue Reading
By Michael von der Schulenburg* – Wall Street International Magazine An open letter to Mark Leonard Europe faces fundamental geopolitical changes caused by a decline in US global power, the rise of China and Asia, a re-assertive Russia, the emergence… Continue Reading
By Peter Baker* – The New York Times The most daunting challenge for Mr. Biden in the weeks ahead will be balancing his stated desire for bipartisanship with his sense of urgency. WASHINGTON — In the weeks before taking office,… Continue Reading
By Alexis Papazoglou* – The Guardian The shortfall in supply has put the EU and the UK at loggerheads, but ethical principles could reveal a solution In normal times, a row between the EU, the UK and a private company… Continue Reading
Michael Baker and Martin McKee (*) – The Guardian Here are 16 reasons why Countries trying to eliminate the virus have been far more successful and economically better off than those that have tried to suppress it The past year… Continue Reading
By Agora of the Earth’s inhabitants There is an urgent need to remedy the catastrophic moral bankruptcy of an unjust world in which vaccines and health are not guaranteed to all the inhabitants of the Earth. On Monday 18 January,… Continue Reading
By Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame Sundaram (*) SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 15 2020 (IPS) – Just before the World Health Assembly (WHA), an 18 May open letter by world leaders and experts urged governments to ensure that all… Continue Reading
By Thalif Deen* “Vaccinating the world against COVID-19 will be one of the largest mass undertakings in human history, and we will need to move as quickly as the vaccines can be produced”- Henrietta Fore, UNICEF Executive Director. UNITED… Continue Reading
By Jomo Kwame Sundaram and Anis Chowdhury (*) KUALA LUMPUR and SYDNEY, Nov 24 2020 (IPS) – The World Bank has been leading other multilateral development banks (MDBs) and international financial institutions to press developing country governments to ‘de-risk’… Continue Reading
By Thalif Deen* Addressing poverty eradication last week, just ahead of the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty on October 17, UN chief António Guterres warned that the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic are falling “disproportionately on the most… Continue Reading
By Roberto Savio* The US is a hopelessly divided, and dysfunctional country Let’s take a look at the American elections which at this moment are important not only for the United States but also for the entire world. The American… Continue Reading
By Marie E. Berry, Milli Lake (*) – Boston Review Some gender equality initiatives help to reinforce exclusion rather than dismantle it. Much has been written about the benefits of electing women to office. Scholars note links between women’s political… Continue Reading
By Jonathan Freedland* – The Guardian Netanyahu may have agreed to halt annexation of parts of the West Bank, but the UAE has ensured the occupation itself is normalised Who could be against an announcement of peace between two nations… Continue Reading
