Poachers Close in on Last Rhino Retreat
The year 2013 opened on a disastrous note for the one-horned rhinoceros of the northeastern Indian state of Assam. At the beginning of April, officials in the Kaziranga National Park (KNP), one of the...
View ArticleAn End to a Cold War?
On Apr. 19, Serbia and Kosovo put years of animosity aside when their prime ministers Ivica Dacic and Hashim Thaci initialled the first ever agreement between Belgrade and Pristina that should lead to...
View ArticleCivil Society Raises Pressure Over NPT
As parties to the treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) begin their second preparatory conference in Geneva on Monday, representatives of civil society and several countries have...
View ArticleWind Brings Light to Somaliland
A wind turbine, situated some 20 kilometres outside of Somaliland’s capital Hargeisa, has become a significant totem of the country’s changing energy landscape. The breakaway semi-autonomous region...
View ArticleSomali Women Cashing in on Business
In the Hamarweyne market, Mogadishu’s largest, 24-year-old Maryama Yunis is finding success with her tiny cosmetic store. The young Somali entrepreneur has been in business for two years, selling...
View Article‘Tell Us About Jail – Just In Case’
“Three interrogators questioned me for three hours. I was handcuffed. They beat me, slapped me, kicked me, boxed me, accused me of throwing stones; played a video of a demonstration. I denied I was...
View ArticleIceland Project Plays Dice With Nature, And Loses
Since the controversial Karahnjukar dam in East Iceland was brought into operation in 2006, conditions in the downstream Lagarfljot lake have become much worse, according to information gathered by the...
View ArticleParaguay’s Colorado Party Back in Power
Paraguay’s right-wing Colorado Party, which ruled the country for 60 years until 2008, will return to power under President-elect Horacio Cartes, who won Sunday’s presidential elections by a wide...
View ArticleChina Outranks West to Grab Top Spot in Global Tourism
China, which has outranked Japan as the world’s second largest economy and moved ahead of Russia as the world’s second largest military spender, has hit the top spot in global tourism. Chinese tourists...
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Q&A: “The Challenge in Venezuela Is to Consolidate Democracy”
The challenge for Venezuela is to strengthen democracy, and for its new president, Nicolás Maduro, it is to overcome a potential recall referendum and to further the interests of his political...
View ArticleU.S. Regulator Lodges “Environmental Objections” to Keystone Plan
Advocacy groups here are applauding the publication of new government concerns, formally expressed Monday by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), over a recent assessment of the...
View ArticleDR Congo Waits for a Less ‘Shy’ UN
As the first of South Africa’s troops are expected to begin arriving in the Democratic Republic of Congo as part of the United Nations intervention force at the end of April, governance experts have...
View ArticleLocals Flee Congolese Rebels
When M23 rebels tried twice to arrange a protest march against a United Nations resolution to deploy an intervention brigade with an offensive mandate to eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, they had...
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Troubled New Year Begins in Sri Lanka
The eve of the much anticipated Sinhala and Tamil New Year, celebrated across the island of Sri Lanka in mid-April to mark the end of the harvest season, was marred by a series of attacks, reminding...
View ArticlePalestinians Fight Unlawful Deportation
Hind Ibrahim Abeyat has spent most of her life separated from her father. “Every house in Palestine has something – someone in prison, a martyr,” the 19-year-old told IPS from her family home in Abeyat...
View ArticleU.S., Others Wrangle over Future Arctic Governance
With climate change rapidly opening up new opportunities for shipping and resource extraction across the once permanently frozen Arctic, the United States and other northern countries are being...
View ArticleCaribbean Tourism Stakes Salvation on Greener Policies
Tourism, widely regarded as the mainstay of Caribbean economies, is being challenged to remain sustainable in an era of climate change and its impact on beaches, rivers and other attractions. Carlos...
View ArticleHomeschoolers Want Legal Vacuum Filled in Spain
Isabel Rodríguez decided to pull her then nine-year-old son Ulises out of the school system and homeschool him instead – an alternative chosen by more than 2,000 families in Spain, who are calling for...
View ArticleKrill Super-Trawlers Pushing Penguins Toward Extinction
Everyone loves penguins, but few will know today is World Penguin Day. Fewer still are those who know penguins are threatened with extinction by climate change and giant fishing trawlers from Europe...
View ArticleBOOKS: A History of the Search for Justice in the Middle East
It’s no wonder that Egypt has floundered in its efforts to create a more democratic system from the ruins of the Mubarak regime. A sweeping new history of Middle Eastern political activists shows that...
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