By Stella Paul BONN, Germany, Nov 15 2017 (IPS) – “Five years ago, when we first started talking about including gender in the negotiations, the parties asked us, ‘Why gender?’ Today, they are asking, ‘How do we include gender?’ That’s the progress we have seen since Doha,” said…
By Baher Kamal Key facts:• 108 million boys and girls between 5 and 17 years are identified as child labourers in agricultura. • Worldwide, nearly 70.9 per cent of child labour is found in agriculture. •Agriculture is one of the most dangerous sectors in terms of rates of…
By: Siti Ruhaini Dzuhayatin* , for Strategic Review The modern world is marked by its plural and multicultural social realm, due to the rapid and massive cross-border mobility of people dating back to the Industrial Revolution, and its global expansion to the East, including…
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by Pier Francesco Zarcone* The military breakthrough in the Syrian war appears to be definitive … at least according to Robert S. Ford, former US Ambassador in Damascus, known for his collusion with local radical Islamists.
BY ISHAAN THAROOR* – The Washington Post A year ago, Western democracies were reeling from the biggest political shock in decades. American voters had just made a reality-TV star the most powerful person in the world.
The Geneva Centre* 10 November 2017, GENEVA – The Executive Director of the Geneva Centre for Human Rights Advancement and Global Dialogue (hereinafter “The Geneva Centre”) Ambassador Idriss Jazairy emphasized – during a lecture on 10 November at the Oxford Centre for Islamic…
Blow * – The New York Times Tuesday night’s election results were a major shot in the arm for the anti-Donald Trump resistance and a major slap in the face for all the Democrats who caterwauled last November about how the party had focused too much on courting women and…
By Gordon Brown* If a million people sign my open letter to Argentine President Mauricio Macri, chair of the G20, I will personally deliver it to him. Eight years ago, at a G20 summit in London, I tried to end the unfairness of global tax havens.
Goldman* – Asia Times A couple of years ago I attended seminars with Chinese and Israeli counterterrorism experts in Beijing, in my capacity as a board member of a foundation that promotes Sino-Israel relations. A senior Chinese official complained that the Saudi royal family…
