Global News Blog – Global Analyst / IPS By Fatima Asmal DURBAN, Oct 26, 2010 (IPS) – Gender training for peacekeeping operations "is not something you do for two weeks before you go for deployment," says Florence Butegwa, UNIFEM representative to the African Union (AU) and U.N. Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA). The growing international [...]
TRADE-AFRICA: EPA Threatens to Tear Apart Oldest Customs Union
May 17, 2008 By
Global News Blog / IPSSaturday, May 17, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Aileen Kwa* GENEVA, May 17 (IPS) – The fate of the world’s oldest customs union, the Southern African Customs Union (SACU), is hanging in the balance as a result of the economic partnership agreements that most SACU countries [...]
ENVIRONMENT-ASIA: Mekong Commission Fends Off Credibility Charges
May 11, 2008 By
Global News Blog / IPSSunday, May 11, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Andrew Nette PHNOM PENH, May 11 (IPS) – The head of the Mekong River Commission (MRC) has defended the regional body against charges that it faces a crisis of credibility arising from inability to guide hydropower development on [...]
DEVELOPMENT: Food Crisis Rises To Forefront At AsDB Sessions
May 4, 2008 By
Global News Blog / IPS Sunday, May 04, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Marwaan Macan-Markar MADRID, May 4 (IPS) – Three words—high food prices—emerged like a gatecrasher at an event hosted by the Asian Development Bank (AsDB) here that was originally billed as a celebration of the bank’s new vision [...]
US/IRAQ: ”Divide and Rule” Strategy Called Shortsighted
May 3, 2008 By
Global News Blog / IPS Saturday, May 03, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Ali Gharib WASHINGTON, May 3 (IPS) – Five years since U.S. president George W. Bush’s infamous ”Mission Accomplished” speech, critics say the administration has yet to show a credible way to actually ”accomplish” the mission that could [...]
BANGLADESH: Amnesty for Tainted Tycoons as Economy Flags
May 2, 2008 By
Global News Blog / IPS Friday, May 02, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Farid Ahmed DHAKA, May 2 (IPS) – Bangladesh’s military-backed interim government hopes that a ‘truth commission’ it plans to set up will give tainted businessmen an opportunity to revive their businesses and help put a badly flagging [...]
IRAQ: Refugees Look to Europe
May 2, 2008 By
Global News Blog / IPS Friday, May 02, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Zack Baddorf DAMASCUS, May 2 (IPS) – ”I’ll go to any country,” says Zirgon Tomas al-Aya, a 60-year-old Iraqi standing outside the UN Refugee Agency headquarters in Damascus. ”I like Syria but I can’t work here, I [...]
RIGHTS: Renditions Ruin the EU Case
May 2, 2008 By
Global News Blog / IPS Friday, May 02, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. By David Cronin BRUSSELS, May 2 (IPS) – Collusion between European Union governments and a secret U.S. torture and kidnapping programme has damaged the EU’s efforts to promote human rights throughout the world, an internal paper drawn [...]
RIGHTS-US: Vets Await Verdict in Class Action Lawsuit
May 2, 2008 By
Global News Blog / IPS Saturday, May 02, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Aaron Glantz SAN FRANCISCO, May 2 (IPS) – Arturo Gonzalez delivered his closing arguments inside a packed courtroom on the 17th floor of the Federal Building in downtown San Francisco. A partner at the gigantic corporate law [...]
MEDIA-ASIA: More Than Just Freedom
May 2, 2008 By
Global News Blog / IPS Friday, May 02, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. By Lynette Lee Corporal BANGKOK, May 2 (IPS) – More than gaining the freedom to report on society’s problems Asian media must gauge it’s real contribution to the public‘s needs, especially at a time of increasing commercialisation. [...]
