Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights The Special Rapporteur Idriss Jazairy(*), wins his bet GENEVA (24 October 2017) – The lifting of sanctions on Sudan by the United States on 12 October was a monumental event that recognized the importance of engaging in dialogue…
By Roberto Savio* ROME, Oct 2017 (Other News/IPS) – The last Austrian and Checks elections show clearly that media have given up on contextualising events. To do that, calls for a warning about Europe’s future, as a vehicle of European values is required. Europe has been…
Posted by Yves Smith – Naked Capitalism Despite, or more accurately, because so many markets are at high levels, often on thin trading volumes, many investors are edgy. Even though markets famously climb a wall of worry, I can’t recall a time when there have been so many…
By Matthew Massee – Daily Digests Blending the policies of his predecessors, the Chinese president is trying to liberalize with an iron fist. The world has changed since modern China was founded, and it seems that China, not for the first time, is changing with it.
By Baher Kamal ROME, Oct 20 2017 (IPS) – With 30 countries from Kenya to Indonesia and from Canada to Brazil now involved in the world campaign to beat pollution by countering the torrents of plastic trash that are degrading oceans and endangering the life they sustain, the UN…
By António Guterres* UNITED NATIONS, Oct 19 2017 (IPS) – I will travel to the Central African Republic early next week to spend United Nations Day with a peacekeeping operation in order to pay tribute to peacekeepers across the world. Peacekeeping operations are among the…
By HANNAH BEECH* – The New York Times BANGKOK — It was an anti-Communist blood bath of at least half a million Indonesians. And American officials watched it happen without raising any public objections, at times even applauding the forces behind the killing, according to newly…
By THE EDITORIAL BOARD – The New York Times Americans have long struggled with the question of whether this country should be more involved in world affairs, or less. The contest of ideas between internationalists and isolationists has been particularly fierce among…
By Baher Kamal ROME, Oct 18 2017 (IPS) – The world is running out of antibiotics to combat the growing threat of antimicrobial resistance, the UN World Health Organization (WHO) warned while announcing the World Antibiotic Awareness Week on 13-19 November. The reason, according…
By Joan Walsh* – The Nation The torrent of #MeToo stories reveals just how much time we spend dealing with this shit. You’ve seen the hashtag: #MeToo, posted by women testifying that they’ve been sexually harassed or assaulted, just as Harvey Weinstein’s long list of victims…
