Bangladesh Set to Take the Reins at Rio+20
Experts believe that the upcoming United Nations Earth Summit, Rio+ 20,
scheduled to take place in Brazil from Jun.20-22, could be a real opportunity
for Bangladesh to negotiate a road to sustainable development. Read more...
IPS Inter Press Service - Global Affairs, May 21, 7:10pm
Q&A: Earth Summit Deadlocked Until Eleventh Hour
The 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro has been described as
one of the largest international conferences in the history of
the United Nations, attracting over 20,000 participants,
including more than 100 world leaders. Read more...
IPS Inter Press Service - Global Affairs, May 21, 7:10pm
Hank Adams Reader
Perhaps it’s a holdover from 1950s TV Westerns where Indians were savages that had to be killed in order for the settlers to turn the wilderness into a garden. Then again, maybe it’s a more recent form of bigotry mobilized by resentment of the freedom... Read more...
Intercontinental Cry, May 21, 7:10pm
More Aborginal Tent Embassies Appearing Throughout Australia
The Aboriginal Tent Embassy is legendary. Located beside the Old Parliament House in Canberra, the Embassy was established in 1972 in order to demand sovereignty for Australia's Indigenous peoples. Over the years, the Embassy has become an important... Read more...
Intercontinental Cry, May 21, 7:10pm
Parliamentarians Track Progress on Reproductive Rights
Have women around the world become more empowered in their reproductive
health and rights over the past 18 years? This is one of the questions that some
300 parliamentarians from around the world will be examining when they meet
in Istanbul, Turkey, this week for the Fifth International Parliamentarians'
Conference on the Implementation of the International Conference on
Population and Development (ICPD) programme of action. Read more...
IPS Inter Press Service - Global Affairs, May 21, 7:10am
Can 'Blue Forests' Mitigate Climate Change?
Fifty-five percent of global atmospheric carbon captured by living organisms
happens in the ocean. Read more...
IPS Inter Press Service - Global Affairs, May 21, 7:10am
The Big Fix
The BP blowout in the Gulf of Mexico -- one of the world's biggest environmental crimes, and the biggest environmental disaster in US history -- was not an accident. Nor was the cover-up by BP and the Obama White House. In the documentary film The Big... Read more...
Intercontinental Cry, May 21, 7:10am
UNAC v NATO
Exercising the new powers made possible by his friend President Obama, Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel has preempted the right to peaceful assembly and free expression by sending police to arrest anti-NATO protestors in their apartment, before they could... Read more...
Intercontinental Cry, May 20, 7:10pm
Before It’s Too Late
In his commentary at The Real News, Senior Editor Paul Jay notes the anti-democratic legislation of Canada and the United States -- aimed at denying Canadian and American citizens the right to assemble, speak and protest their respective governments'... Read more...
Intercontinental Cry, May 20, 7:10pm
State of Siege
As reported in Cultural Survival, the President of Guatemala -- former military general Otto Perez Molina -- has declared martial law against Maya communities opposing a dam development by a Spanish company on their river. With the state of siege... Read more...
Intercontinental Cry, May 19, 1:04pm
The Time That Has Come
When the Zapatista uprising appeared in world media in January 1994, it wasn't out of the blue; Mayan communities had been holding assemblies to discuss the ramifications of armed defense of their democratic way of life for well over a decade. What was... Read more...
Intercontinental Cry, May 19, 12:53pm
Pele’s Appeal
Produced and directed by Na Maka o ka 'Aina, Pele's Appeal is an award-winning documentary about the risks of geothermal drilling in the Wao Kele o Puna rain forest on the Hawai'i island. Though the film was produced in 1989, the prospect of geothermal... Read more...
Intercontinental Cry, May 19, 12:24pm
No to CoAL! Venda communities stand up against mine
The mining corporation Coal of Africa Ltd (CoAL) continues to push forward with plans to open a coking coal mine in the Venda region of South Africa. On Wednesday 11th April, CoAL held a 'Water Open Day' forum in Venda as part of their public... Read more...
Intercontinental Cry, May 19, 11:28am
G8 Turns to Private Sector for Food Crisis Solutions
On the eve of the Group of Eight (G8) summit near Washington,
President Barack Obama on Friday unveiled a major new
initiative aimed at shoring up food security and combating
global hunger. Read more...
IPS Inter Press Service - Global Affairs, May 19, 7:10am
FINANCE: Protestors Demand Robin Hood Tax on Financial Transactions
Hundreds of nurses and protestors from other professions gathered on
Friday in Chicago to call on world leaders to adopt a Robin Hood Tax on
Wall Street transactions as a way to raise hundreds of billions of dollars
every year to help heal the U.S. and world economies. Read more...
IPS Inter Press Service - Global Affairs, May 19, 7:10am
Opposition to Iranian Nuclear Arms Widespread: Global Poll
Opposition to Iran's possible acquisition of nuclear weapons
is widespread, although support for taking military action to
prevent it appears to have fallen in several key countries
over the past two years, according to a new poll of public
opinion in 21 countries released here Friday by the Pew
Research Center's Global Attitudes Project. Read more...
IPS Inter Press Service - Global Affairs, May 19, 7:10am
Industrialised Countries Under Critical Spotlight at U.N. Meet
The latest session of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate
Change (UNFCCC), taking place May 15-25 in the former German capital Bonn, is
the perfect opportunity to reaffirm the enormous and growing body of scientific
expertise on policies to tackle global warming. Read more...
IPS Inter Press Service - Global Affairs, May 18, 7:10pm
HAITI: Funding Dries Up Even as Rains Worsen Cholera Deaths
As predicted, the beginning of the rainy season in Haiti
brought exponential increases in the numbers of people
sickened and killed by cholera. Read more...
IPS Inter Press Service - Global Affairs, May 18, 7:10pm
A Matter of Trust
Oneida Indian Nation Representative Ray Halbritter recently addressed the US Senate Committee on Indian Affairs regarding Fulfilling the Federal Trust Responsibility. As Halbritter remarked, the failure of fulfilling its trust responsibilities has... Read more...
Intercontinental Cry, May 18, 1:07pm
Giving Muara Tae the skills to fight off palm oil threat
Below, The London-based Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) discusses their ongoing effort to assist a struggling Dayak community in Indonesia's East Kalimantan province. Working alongside their Indonesian partner Telapak, EIA is providing the... Read more...
Intercontinental Cry, May 18, 10:34am
NATO's Twin Crises
It's not an easy time for the North Atlantic Treaty
Organization (NATO). Read more...
IPS Inter Press Service - Global Affairs, May 17, 7:10pm
Legitimizing Theft
The Global Indigenous Youth Caucus, presenting at the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues recently, made a case against the UN World Intellectual Property Organization as a monopolistic manifestation of piracy. As Gale Courey Toensing reports at... Read more...
Intercontinental Cry, May 17, 10:59am
International Intervention
Writing at Indian Country Today, Karla E. General examines the conflict between the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and US law. In the wake of the Ninth Circuit decision that desecration of sacred Native sites does not represent a... Read more...
Intercontinental Cry, May 17, 10:58am
World Bank Accused of Ignoring Lessons on Mega Infrastructure
In a renewed funding focus on large-scale infrastructure, the
World Bank, Group of 20 (G20) countries and other multilateral
groups are wilfully overlooking lessons learned decades ago, a
new report by International Rivers warns. Read more...
IPS Inter Press Service - Global Affairs, May 17, 7:10am
Report Back: Mining Injustice Conference 2012, Day 1
This is the first of a two-part feature examining the fourth annual Mining Injustice Conference, which ran from May 5-6, 2012 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Canada loves to follow the lead of the mining companies it so faithfully incorporates, and why not?... Read more...
Intercontinental Cry, May 17, 5:40am
Maternal Deaths Drop By Nearly Half
The statistics have remained staggering: every two minutes, a
woman dies of pregnancy and child birth-related complications
caused primarily by severe bleeding, infections, high blood
pressure and unsafe abortions. Read more...
IPS Inter Press Service - Global Affairs, May 16, 7:10pm
Q&A: The Future of Agriculture May Well Be in Cities
In the coming decades, the world's population is expected to
grow by at least another two billion people, 80 percent of
whom will live in cities by the year 2050. Read more...
IPS Inter Press Service - Global Affairs, May 16, 7:10pm
UN Challenge
Aborigines request United Nations peacekeepers to protect them against aggression by the Australian Government. Read more...
Intercontinental Cry, May 16, 12:33pm
Fascist Infrastructure
Writing at Black Agenda Report, Dave Lindorff examines the National Operations Center through which the White House directs the coordinated efforts of federal, state and local police against Occupy. Also writing at BAR, Glen Ford looks at the growing... Read more...
Intercontinental Cry, May 16, 11:57am
Upcoming conference to call attention to Indigenous Peoples in Caucasian-Caspian region
On May 8, the organizing committee of the “Indigenous Peoples of Caucasian-Caspian region” conference gathered in Nagorno-Karabakh to discuss the details of the upcoming conference (5-7 October, 2012) in Yerevan, Armenia. The organizing committee was... Read more...
Intercontinental Cry, May 16, 11:44am
Brazilian Government Sets Guidelines for Success at Rio+20
As the host of Rio+20, the Brazilian government has defined guidelines for achieving success at the upcoming world summit, whose aim is to assess and strengthen what has been done since the 1992 Earth Summit, the first global meeting on sustainable development. Read more...
IPS Inter Press Service - Global Affairs, May 16, 7:10am
"Small Five" Challenge "Big Five" Over Veto Powers
The 193-member General Assembly is expected to vote on a
resolution - described as "historic" - requesting the five
permanent members (P5) of the Security Council to consider
"refraining from using their vetoes on action aimed at
preventing or ending genocide, war crimes and crimes against
humanity". Read more...
IPS Inter Press Service - Global Affairs, May 16, 7:10am
Public Funds Could Help Provide Water and Electricity, Researchers Say
For several decades, governments around the globe have turned to
privatisation as the best option to help relieve the world's destitute by
providing them with health care services, water and electricity. By and
large, however, this effort has failed. Read more...
IPS Inter Press Service - Global Affairs, May 16, 7:10am
Adding Rice Farmers to the Rio+20 Agenda
The year 2011 was one of extremes for the small Sri Lankan village of
Verugal. Read more...
IPS Inter Press Service - Global Affairs, May 16, 7:10am
Manila and Moscow Inch Closer to Labour Agreement
As the number of migrant Filipino workers in Russia inches closer to 5000,
Moscow and Manila are busy negotiating a bilateral labour agreement that
could allow thousands more overseas workers into various sectors of the
Russian economy. Read more...
IPS Inter Press Service - Global Affairs, May 16, 7:10am
Learned Helplessness
In his post The Media and the Message, Nicholas Mirzoeff discusses the learned helplessness produced by mainstream media, neoliberalism’s administration of fear, and the counter-narrative of Occupy. Read more...
Intercontinental Cry, May 15, 12:03pm
A toxic cocktail runs through it
The Portland Harbor Superfund Site feasibility study released last [month] by the Lower Willamette Group (LWG) proposes a range of clean-up options by the parties responsible for the contamination in the Willamette River and marks a major milestone in... Read more...
Intercontinental Cry, May 15, 11:57am
"We Are Living As If We Had One and a Half Planets"
The new WWF Living Planet Report warns of a significant decline in biodiversity, particularly in low-income countries, and a huge increase in the ecological footprint of high-income countries. Read more...
IPS Inter Press Service - Global Affairs, May 15, 7:10am
IAEA Parchin Demand Puts Iran Cooperation Pact at Risk
In meetings with Iranian officials in Vienna this week, the
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) apparently intends
to hold up agreement on a plan for Iran's full cooperation in
clarifying allegations of covert nuclear weapons work by
insisting that it must first let the nuclear agency visit
Parchin military base. Read more...
IPS Inter Press Service - Global Affairs, May 14, 7:10pm
EU Backs Aid Through Budget Support
In an unprecedented move, all 27 EU development ministers championed
budget support Monday as an effective way of reducing poverty in developing
countries. At the same time they gave the green light to a new ground-breaking
initiative to prevent new humanitarian crises in the Horn of Africa. Read more...
IPS Inter Press Service - Global Affairs, May 14, 7:10pm
Occupy 2012
If you’re trying to get your mind around the anti-austerity movement and the emerging new world order, Occupy 2012 is a good place to start. When it comes to pro-democracy mobilizations against neoliberalism, things aren’t as bleak as mainstream media... Read more...
Intercontinental Cry, May 14, 1:36pm
Climate change and the corporate scramble for the Arctic
This is the second of a two-part feature examining the impact of climate change on the Arctic. Part I examined the uses of the colonial imagination of the Arctic. Many of the winter months of 2012 were among the warmest on record. The warming of our... Read more...
Intercontinental Cry, May 14, 9:55am
San Tribesmen & Women In Botswana Illegally Arrested By Government Security Forces
Location: Central Kalahari Game Reserve, CKGR, Ghanzi, BotswanaOn December 13th, 2006 a verdict was issued in the 'Central Kalahari Game Reserve Legal Case' in which the High Court of Botswana ruled IN FAVOR of the San Indigenous Community. The San--or... Read more...
Intercontinental Cry, May 14, 9:48am
BOOKS: Controversy and Deadly Destruction Arising from Drone Use
Grasshoppers and other insects might become the next generation of
drones, if researchers with the Israeli research centre Technion who are
studying the movements of these insects succeed. Ultimately, they hope
to be able to remotely control where the insects fly. Read more...
IPS Inter Press Service - Global Affairs, May 14, 7:10am
Private Sector and Conservationists Meet on a Big Date
As schools of whales move to music undersea at image definitions of 6.54
million pixels on the giant ceiling mounted LED screen, 218 X 30 metres in
length and width, expectations run high from the International Exposition
Yeosu Korea 2012 at harbour town. The expo showcases 104 participating
countries' visions and achievements on the Expo theme: ‘The Living Ocean and
Coast: Diversity of Resources and Sustainable Activities'. Read more...
IPS Inter Press Service - Global Affairs, May 14, 7:10am
Financial Middlemen Muddle Climate Commitments
The European Union has been using all means necessary to fill the multi-
billion-euro fund for climate change, including the controversial mobilisation
of public resources through private financial intermediaries. Read more...
IPS Inter Press Service - Global Affairs, May 13, 7:10pm
IAEA Refuses Iran Cooperation Pact Until After Parchin Visit
Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency
Yukiya Amano has signaled that there will be no IAEA agreement
with Iran in the meetings in Vienna Monday and Tuesday on the
terms for Iranian cooperation in clarifying issue of alleged
nuclear weapons work. Read more...
IPS Inter Press Service - Global Affairs, May 13, 7:10pm
A Lucrative System
Sometimes, the overwhelming violence in Mexico due to the drug trade can be bewildering, especially when innocent civilians, human rights activists and journalists are brutally murdered. But this violence, of course, is not created out of thin air; it is... Read more...
Intercontinental Cry, May 13, 2:20pm
The India You Do Not Know
Damon Gerard Corrie & Meenakshi MundaI was fortunate to have met Mrs. Meenakshi Munda of the 2 million person Munda Tribal Nation of India, at the Tribal Link Project Access Global Capacity Training for Indigenous Peoples Training course; held in... Read more...
Intercontinental Cry, May 12, 11:52am
Keeping Democracy Down
It takes a lot of effort and money to prevent discussion, deny obligations, and derail reconciliation in our country, and maybe that's why major media had to consolidate so drastically between Bush 1 and Bush 2. I mean, even with the willing help of... Read more...
Intercontinental Cry, May 12, 11:42am