‘Media Needs an Alliance With Minorities’
Amid calls from world leaders for media diversity and plurality to be strengthened to combat a rising tide of extremism and intolerance, media experts have warned that change should not be expected...
View ArticleNotorious Former Super-Lobbyist Urges Ethics Reform
Notorious former Republican super-lobbyist Jack Abramoff, who spent more than three years in federal prison for tax evasion, conspiracy to bribe public officials and fraud, is now touring the U.S....
View ArticleAhead of March Iran Talks, U.S. Urged to Back Possible Israeli Strike
In the same week that talks between Iran and the P5+1 (the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council plus Germany) concluded in Kazakhstan with rare positive Iranian feedback, a joint...
View ArticleU.S. Finally Passes Stronger Protections for Women against Abuse
The U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday ended more than a year of stonewalling a piece of legislation that for two decades has offered legal protections for women against sexual violence,...
View ArticleArgentina’s Deal with Iran Could Carry Political Price
Despite the government’s insistence that the purpose of the agreement struck with Iran is merely to investigate the 1994 bombing of the Jewish institution AMIA, as the Argentine parliament voted its...
View ArticleTo Walk Down The Street
Molotov cocktails, clouds of teargas, live gunfire, ambulance sirens wailing as they ferried the wounded, and round after round of rubber-coated metal bullets exploding in the street…these were...
View ArticleWater – A Blessing and a Curse in Mozambique
As Mozambique tries to recover from the worst flooding here since 2000, experts have called for a national discussion on water management and how to maximise its usage in favour of long-term...
View ArticleQ&A: ‘Alliance of Civilisations, a Need and a Challenge’
The fifth global forum of the United Nations Alliance of Civilisations (UNAOC), founded to promote intercultural understanding and dialogue to bring civilisations closer, came to a close Thursday after...
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“Eco-Reconstruction” Still an Impossible Dream for Chilean Village
The reconstruction of the fishing village of Boyeruca, destroyed by the tsunami that swept over central-south Chile on Feb. 27, 2010, was meant to serve as a model of ecological and sustainable...
View ArticleInter-American Human Rights System Reform Faces Deadline
March will be a key month for defining the future of the Inter-American human rights system, which has come under fire from a number of countries in the region. Mar. 22 is the deadline for members of...
View ArticleFormer Haitian Dictator Denies Abuses at Historic Hearing
For the first time ever, on Thursday Haiti’s former dictator faced his accusers, answering questions about corruption and human rights abuses during his brutal 15-year regime (1971-1986). The court of...
View ArticleTask Force Urges Joint U.S.-Mexico Approach to Border
A group of business executives, civil society leaders, policy experts and former government officials from Mexico and the United States are recommending that the two countries expand cooperative...
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Protests in Portugal Get Creative
Indignation in Portugal over rampant joblessness and cuts in wages, pensions and unemployment benefits, together with a growing tax burden, has given rise to innovative forms of protest capable of...
View ArticleDraft Assessment of Tar Sands Pipeline “Devastatingly Cynical”
The U.S. State Department late Friday released a draft environmental impact assessment of a contentious pipeline project that simultaneously acknowledged the dangers posed by climate change while also...
View ArticleJapanese Learn to Mind Their Business for Others
After two decades of economic stagnation and serial natural disasters, a growing number of young Japanese believe social entrepreneurship is the best way to rebuild their society. Masami Komatsu (37)...
View ArticleTwo Million People Hold their Breath Over Lake Malawi Mediation
Over two million families who solely depend on Lake Malawi for their livelihoods are anxiously putting their hopes into an upcoming mediation between Malawi and Tanzania intended to put an end to a...
View ArticleBangladesh Finds a Touch of the Arab Spring
Is Bangladesh just trying to process its dark legacy, the trauma of the genocide that took place during the country´s liberation war in 1971? Or is something more afoot? On Feb. 5, activists belonging...
View ArticleCapitol Hill Coddles Uzbekistan’s Karimov
Central Asian states do not face an “imminent” threat posed by Islamic militants, but they need U.S. assistance to help defend against potential dangers, according to top U.S. diplomats. Such...
View ArticleReframing Gender, from Chaos to Creativity Post-2015
The U.N. has opened up public platforms to engage the world on how best to replace the expiring Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and frame a new development agenda, post-2015. What has come through...
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Q&A: Without More Women, Media Cannot Tell the Full Story
The fact that women are underrepresented in the media industry should surprise few. The severity of this imbalance and its consequences, however, are less obvious. In a new report, the Women’s Media...
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