Byr Naimul Haq IPS Correspondent Naimul Haq interviews WILLIAM LACY SWING, Director General of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) DHAKA, Bangladesh, Dec 2017 (IPS) – In less than four months, over 600,000 Rohingya refugees have fled brutal persecution in Myanmar…
By THE EDITORIAL BOARD of the New York Times You know you have a problem when you’ve been president for less than 11 months and you’re already relying on Richard Nixon’s definition of what’s legal. On Monday morning, Axios reported that Mr.
By Martin Khor* PENANG, Malaysia, Dec 2017 (IPS) – The growing crisis of antibiotic resistance is catching the attention of policy makers, but not at a rate enough to tackle it. More diseases are affected by resistance, meaning the bacteria cannot be killed even if different…
By George Friedman* – Geopolitical Futures For the moment, Iran has been freed to assert itself. Iran has always seen itself as being in competition with the Arab states for domination of the Persian Gulf.
By Baher Kamal ROME, Dec 4 2017 (IPS) – “There are new challenges to all states: among them, the real threat to multilateralism… South-South and triangular cooperation can contribute to a new multilateralism and drive the revitalisation of the global partnership for sustainable…
Editorial Stop the state visit. Britain should not allow the US president’s racism to be dressed up in pageantry All relationships have boundaries.
Kimball WASHINGTON DC, Dec 1 2017 (IPS) – Over the past year, cavalier and reckless statements from President Donald Trump about nuclear weapons and his threat to unleash “fire and fury” against North Korea have heightened fears about Cold War-era policies and procedures that…
Sean Gleeson* – The Atlantic Speaking out on behalf of the Muslim minority—which the pontiff failed to do—might have endangered the Christian minority. RANGOON—The sight of Pope Francis greeting about 100,000 Burmese pilgrims on Wednesday was deeply moving, even for a…
Burrowes* Several years ago in Cameroon, a country in West Africa, a Western Black Rhinoceros was killed. It was the last of its kind on Earth. Hence, the Western Black Rhinoceros, the largest subspecies of rhinoceros which had lived for millions of years and was the second…
By Naimul Haq In this special series of reports, IPS journalists travel to the border region between Bangladesh and Myanmar to speak with Rohingya refugees, humanitarian workers and officials about the still-unfolding human rights and health crises facing this long-marginalized…
