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Finance and Trade are indeed in the eye of the storm, as for many citizens they appear to create more problems than solutions. In their name, politicians seem to avoid tough decisions at global level ...
Pr. David Held is the perfect man to talk to about Global Governance. He was among the first to understand the political implications of globalization, and to recognize the shift from globalization as an irresistible ...
Interview by Laura Bullon-Cassis, photography by Patrick Jackson for The Global Journal We are living, we are told, through an ideological crisis, gridlock, or vacuum. If these words have become increasingly popular since 2008 and ...
Over two thousand Tamils gathered in front of the United Nations in Geneva (March 5, 2012) to appeal to the Human Rights Council to support a genuine process of reconciliation in Sri Lanka. The protesters ...
Tibetan monks may have an iPhone 4, but too many still choose self-immolation. Exclusive report from Tibet where journalists are not welcome unless part of an official tour. The pilgrims are still circling around Labrang ...
Pr. Louis Loutan, President of the Geneva Health Forum and Head of division of International and Humanitarian Medicine at Geneva University Hospitals. What was the origin of the Geneva Health Forum ? We launched the first ...
The notion of Global Governance remains an abstract one for many of us. Some would see it as an invention by people who dream of being more powerful than the powerful. Others imagine it as ...
The UN in Geneva will hold an aid forum on 8 March to address the current challenges in getting humanitarian aid to the Syrian civilian population. The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs ...
German Economy Minister, Philipp Roesler, has urged the EU to appoint a special commissioner assigned to supervise the implementation of reforms in member states affected by the debt crisis. Germany had already proposed a similar ...
Kenneth Roth, Executive Director of Human Rights Watch, has responded to criticism from a group of women’s rights organizations in an open letter published by the New York Review of Books online. The debate ...
Tourism in south Asia generated approximately USD 103.8bn or 4.8% of the region’s total GDP in 2011. While this may seem significant, the relative contribution of the tourism industry to its national ...
The Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) of the United Nations (UN) is to hold an event today (February 27) on the current and future status of youth employment, “Breaking new ground: Partnerships for more and ...
Liu Xiaobo currently resides in the Jinzhou Prison in the Liaoning Province of China, serving an 11-year prison term. His “crime”: drafting and promoting Charter ‘08, a manifesto that demands human rights and democratic reforms ...
In this interconnected world, what happens in one country has a ripple effect throughout the global system. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton understands that, which is why she convened a global business ...
At least 24 civilians were killed by Syrian Army rockets (February 22), including Marie Colvin, (American Correspondent of Britain’s Sunday Times) and French freelance photographer, Rémi Ochlik. AFP reports that a shell crashed ...
Egypt has accused American groups of financing chaos in Egypt after the fall of President Hosni Mubarak’s regime last year. Cabinet Minister Faiza Abu El-Naga said in testimony in October that Washington was to ...
With the Rio+20 Conference steadily approaching, leaders and diplomats around the globe are preparing for the world’s latest attempt to reach an agreement on climate change. While the outcome remains uncertain, there is ...
Jimmy Wales is an Internet entrepreneur and founder of Wikipedia, an online, free-content encyclopaedia that has grown into the fifth most visited website globally. Wales established the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation in 2003 to support Wikipedia ...
It appears that Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is trying to buy votes in the upcoming presidential elections in three weeks. This week, Putin promised to increase the wages of teachers and doctors and improve ...
After Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced at an anniversary ceremony to mark the Islamic Revolution (February 11) that he would unveil “major nuclear accomplishments”, the United States and the European Union are left hoping that ...
European countries are heading towards increased ‘’interdependence and co-responsibility” according to Herman Van Rompuy, President of the European Council at Humboldt University (6th February). Speaking on 'The Discovery of Co-responsibility: Europe in the Debt Crisis ...
Kathryn Bolkovac has raised concerns over the ‘’ Whistleblower Improvement Act ‘’ by joining the Project On Government Oversight (POGO) in advocating for the safeguard of the rights and protections of whistleblowers. POGO, an independent nonprofit organization ...
February 6-8 in Doha, Quatar - In a three-day conference and exhibition, WaterWorld Middle East 2012 and POWER-GEN Middle East are showcasing the experts and companies who address ‘Challenging Power Solutions in Challenging Times’. The event ...
Throughout the four years of the global financial crisis, nobody has spoken up in favor of greedy bankers or big bonuses for executives of failing financial institutions. It’s about time someone did. Here’s ...
The official response to Russia’s wave of protests held on February 4th was given by the country’s acting PM Vladimir Putin, who is also to participate in the presidential race on March 4th ...
Unlike the European and (grumbling) American airline companies, China refuses to pay charges imposed by the European Union on carbon emissions. "The Civil Aviation Administration of China recently issued a directive to Chinese airlines that ...
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Gael Favari
February 11, 2012
