Children

Bullying is an “Infringement” on Children’s Rights

By Tharanga Yakupitiyage UNITED NATIONS, Jan 24 2019 (IPS) – While rates have decreased, school violence and bullying is still a major global issue, contributing to lasting impacts on youth, a United Nations agency found. During the 2019 Education World Forum, taking place in…

Commerce

A Trumpless Davos tries to counter populism

By Ishaan Tharoor * – The Washington Post DAVOS, Switzerland — In some ways, the agenda at this year’s World Economic Forum — the annual conclave of the global elite — is not that different from the deliberations of 2018. There will be declarations about the struggle against…

Armed conflicts

Rohingya crisis: Issues and challenges that have emerged

 By Mohammad Zaman* – The Daily Star Jan  2019 (The Daily Star, Bangladesh) – To date, much has been written and said about the Rohingya crisis. The regime in Naypyidaw has literally flouted all international laws and evaded pressures from the international community.

Democracy

Never Been a Worse Time to be a Journalist

By Ed Holt BRATISLAVA, Jan 22 2019 (IPS) – “I’ve never known a time when it was as bad as it is now,” says Beata Balogova, the Vice-Chair of the International Press Institute (IPI) and Editor in Chief of the Slovak Spectator Sme. “In terms of what’s going on with journalists…

Armed conflicts

Towards a Global Rule of Law

Fernando Ayala* – Wall Street International Magazine To democratize the international system for a governance that can save the planet Developed countries presume that in their societies the rule of law which guarantees the separation of powers, respect for the law, human rights…

Intelligence

Trump as the Kremlin’s Tool: The Logical Proof

By Stephan Richter and Richard Phillips(*) – The Globalist Whether intentional or not, Donald Trump serves the Kremlin’s interests — from NATO to the global economy and the Middle East to democracy As Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russia’s involvement in…

Human Rights

“Build a Wall of Steel”

By Rebecca Onion *-  Slate  A century before Trump, the KKK also wanted to halt immigration. And while a real wall wasn’t in their playbook, their motivations and goals sound eerily familiar Last week, as the president continued to insist on the building of his proposed border…

Commerce

A New Spectre Is Haunting Europe

By Roberto Savio* ROME  – After Teresa May’s defeat in the British parliament on January 15, it is clear that a new spectre is haunting Europe. It is no longer the spectre of communism, which opens Marx’s Manifesto of 1848; it is the spectre of the failure of neoliberal…