South Africa Deployment to DR Congo Opposed
Kholekile Dlamini has been devastated by the death of her son Xolani Dlamini, a South African National Defence Force soldier who died in the Central African Republic. Like many South Africans, she had...
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Muffled Call for Peace Rises in the Caucasus
Sixty-year-old Irina Grigoryan’s voice is drowned out by the merry noise of 230 children waiting for their lunch. Director of kindergarten N3, located in Stepanakert, capital of the self-proclaimed...
View ArticleTextbooks Hold Seeds of Peace and War
At Dar el-Eitam Islamic Orphanage, a secondary school under Waqf (Islamic trust) supervision located in Jerusalem’s walled Old City, Palestinian twelfth graders prepare their Tawjihi (A-Level) in...
View ArticleThe Forced Inheritance of DRC’s Military Kids
The children of deceased police and army officers in North Kivu, eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, are finding themselves forced to adopt their late fathers’careers in the armed services to...
View ArticleKyrgyzstan Officials Taking Cultural Right Turn
Authorities at Kyrgyzstan’s Ministry of Culture want to ban a play that discusses domestic abuse and sexual violence because it “promotes scenes that destroy moral and ethical standards and national...
View ArticleOP-ED: Letting Nature Take Its Course?
Is sustainability still possible? Yes. Is it still probable? No. With bold action today, tomorrow, and in years to come, we could succeed in creating a sustainable and prosperous society. But what does...
View ArticleIn Haiti, April Showers Don’t Always Bring Flowers
In Haiti, a simple spring shower that would barely be noticed in most countries can cause devastating floods, due to the severe deforestation and erosion that impedes the absorption of rain. And the...
View ArticleElections in the Shadow of Chávez
Venezuelans will cast their ballots this Sunday to elect a successor to late president Hugo Chávez. The choice is between his political heir Nicolás Maduro – the front-runner in the polls – and the...
View ArticleAgriculture Still the Cinderella of Colombia
Wearing a dusty hat and a smile that lights up his face, the septuagenarian José Alicapa does not shrink from the overwhelming bustle of the Colombian capital, which he reached after a 13-hour bus...
View ArticleGlobal Health Plan Aims to End a Third of Childhood Deaths
The United Nations has unveiled a major framework aimed at, for the first time, coordinating worldwide efforts to work simultaneously to end childhood pneumonia- and diarrhoea-related deaths by 2025....
View ArticleHigh Stakes for Engaging Morsi’s Egypt
Women and minorities should be a top priority in U.S. policy toward Egypt and its Muslim Brotherhood government leaders, experts here said on Friday, despite increasingly unfavourable public views...
View ArticleTents Take on Settlements
Tent cities are being set up by Palestinians all over the West Bank to protest against Israeli settlements, building on a protest during the visit of U.S. President Barack Obama last month. Holding...
View ArticleGreece Becomes Outpost in Turkey’s “Anti-Terror” Campaign
Zeki Gorbuz, a Turkish asylum seeker in Greece, who was arrested on Feb. 12, remains detained today due to an international warrant that was transmitted by Turkish authorities to Greece just one day...
View ArticleGive a Teenager a Camera, Watch the World Change
Today’s youth are hardly passive consumers of content – they create it, endlessly updating via social media and spreading information faster than one can say “go”. This weekend at New York’s Columbia...
View ArticleU.S.: Occupy Affiliate Aims at Abolishing Consumer Debt
Strike Debt, an affiliate of the Occupy movement, has devised a legal and what some consider ingenious way to abolish millions of dollars in consumer debt. The project is called Rolling Jubilee, and by...
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Culture Is the New Resistance
Ela, a young Tunisian woman whose face is barely visible behind her niqab, says she has spent five months protesting a university ban against the religious garment in the classroom “to no avail”. On...
View ArticleCommodities Trade Haven Faces Protests
The powerful Swiss commodity sector is under fire here, as citizens fed up with government inaction on charges of corporate corruption, tax evasion and lack of transparency gear up for major protests....
View ArticleAs West Falters, Arms Spending Rises in Developing World
The spreading economic crisis is taking a bite out of Western military spending – even as the world’s developing nations, along with Russia and China, boosted their arms expenditures last year. In a...
View ArticleSenegal’s Leader Urged to Save Sardinella
Hours after President Macky Sall of Senegal met in Washington with President Barack Obama late last month, he stepped into a brightly lit hotel meeting room to accept the Peter Benchley Award for...
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Eternal Energy Revolution Picking Up Steam
“Be a climate-protection hero, not a climate victim” is the message energy experts from around the world are bringing to San Francisco Tuesday. Solar panel fields in Provence, France. Credit: Coralie...
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