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Eric Darier is a senior campaigner on Ecological Agriculture for Greenpeace International. Let’s not mince our words: chemical intensive industrial agriculture is a failure. No doubt, future generations will wonder why we were so ...
As the first Internet stock bubble neared its popping point in 1999, IBM chief executive Lou Gerstner famously dismissed the dot-com start-ups of his day as “fireflies before the storm—all stirred up, throwing off ...
Figures reveal a clear disjunction between the world NGOs seek to create, and the world their governance structures reproduce. Diversity and inclusion are important to almost all non-governmental organisations. To what extent do NGO boards ...
The Montreal Protocol demonstrated that nations can come together to successfully design and implement effective environmental legislation. The general public did not originally accept the idea of a hole in the ozone layer – yet over ...
In his article “The Challenges for European Identity” Francis Fukuyama claims the undergoing crisis in the European Union is primarily a crisis over its identity rather than economic or political foundations. While the author's ...
Pascal Lamy, Director-General of the World Trade Organisation, addresses an audience at Bilkent Univeristy Ankara upon receiving a Doctorat Honoris Causa, 15 March 2013. Ladies and gentlemen, Being with you in "bilim kenti," the city ...
The last two months have seen unprecedented friction between the United States and China over allegations of attacks by the latter on the computer networks and sensitive information of American business and government. The public ...
The proliferation of sexual violence and female oppression in India is truly disturbing. The Times of India recently reported that 95% of women in Delhi and the surrounding areas feel unsafe outdoors. While the recent ...
Never has the world witnessed a large market emerge so quickly as China. As the economy grows, it is also changing. China is fast climbing the value curve, transitioning from low-cost manufacturing to innovation-led growth ...
The tale of two worlds – the fabulously rich and the increasingly poor – is a defining narrative of contemporary life, and it continues to throw up vivid reminders, at once doleful and grimly hilarious. One of ...
The Commonwealth is sleepwalking towards a human rights disaster, if it goes ahead with November's Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Colombo, where it will be presided over by Sri Lanka's President Mahinda ...
Thomas G. Weiss is Presidential Professor of Political Science at The CUNY Graduate Center and Director of the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies and also research professor at SOAS, University of London. He is ...
“You are asking what would we do to the terrorists if we find them? We will destroy them.” These were the words of French President, Francois Hollande, a few days after having launched Operation Serval ...
Media freedom remains elusive and yet necessary in the post-communist sphere. The European Union, in particular, struggles to find the middle ground between intervention, controlling the media, and supporting full decommunization. Indeed, recent events in ...
At WCIT-12 in Dubai in December, the 193 member states of the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) met to review a treaty that has formed the global framework for telecommunications regulation for almost 25 years. A ...
Open letter to Secretary-General of the United Nations Appointment of the next Secretary-General of UNCTAD Dear Mr. Secretary-General, Later this year, you will be nominating to the General Assembly your choice of the next Secretary-General ...
When Galileo Galilei claimed that the earth revolved around the sun instead of celestial subjects revolving around the earth it broke away from conventional knowledge. This eventually led to a new level of understanding and ...
The World Conference on Telecommunications of the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) ended in a showdown in Dubai with the US and some of its allies walking out of the meeting, refusing to sign the new ...
What is the new game in town? Out of competing theories and views, there tends to emerge a certain winner, a dominant argument that shapes the entire new paradigm. In a world of diversity and ...
It is a good day for intolerant rulers like Hugo Chavez and Nursultan Nazarbayev, as seven countries with particularly appalling human rights records were elected to the UN Human Rights Council: Ethiopia, Gabon, Côte ...
Lessons from the So-Called ‘Powerless’ Women of the North. The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) announced last month it was closing down operations in Sri Lanka, where in 2009 it had run the world ...
The Nobel Prize announcement has triggered another round of EU bashing. There are many reasons today to be critical of the EU. Any positive appraisal of the EU project could be seen counter-intuitive. Keeping this ...
When people in Scotland or Flanders or Catalonia talk of independence, they have an invisible but powerful ally: globalization. Nations no longer need as much territory to be viable as they did in the period ...
If there is one striking characteristic of the period of late Hu-Wen rule (broadly, from the 17th Party Congress in 2007 when Hu was able to have most of his key allies in the Politburo ...
The recent attacks on diplomatic missions in the Middle East have brought into focus the discussion on embassies and the tension between their function and protection. It reminds me of sessions in the early 1990s ...
No stone has been left unturned – or so it seems. Syria is experiencing a full-scale civil war. If Kofi Annan, former UN Secretary General, the world's most eminent diplomatic figure and renowned mediator resigned ...
“Get out, you miserable dog!” For Romanian President Traian Basescu, this has been the recurrent chorus of the people publicly protesting against him. In January this year, Romania saw a minor resurgence of the revolutionary ...
With the dust beginning to settle on the death of Meles Zenawi (21 July) —ruler of Ethiopia since 1991—Western leaders have been quick to lavish praise on his legacy. A darling of the national ...
A fiction writer from the Golden Age of Russian literature could never have dreamed up a scenario as absurd and a story as far-fetched as the persecution of the punk rock band Pussy Riot, found ...
With the world economy still struggling to recover, young people continue to face unprecedented levels of unemployment. The United Nations has responded by producing several events and studies, including May’s Youth Employment Forum at ...
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