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ENVIRONMENT-CHINA: New Report Denounces Impact of Three Gorges Dam
The resettlement of hundreds of thousands of people dislocated by China's controversial Three Gorges Dam project has been marked by inadequate compensation, serious abuses of human rights and widespread corruption, says a report released this week by California-based International Rivers Network (IRN).POLITICS: Recent Moves Reveal Uncertainty in U.S. Venezuela Policy
On the eve of the first ministerial meeting of the newly formed six-nation ''friends'' group created to back mediation efforts in Venezuela, U.S. policy towards Caracas, and Latin America in general, remains fuzzy and largely undefined.POLITICS: Report Faults Global Bodies for Transparency Deficit
As the world's economic and progressive elites gather in Switzerland and Brazil this week to discuss globalisation, a first-of-its-kind analysis of the accountability of the world's most powerful organisations concludes that a lot of work remains to be done.Legislative Horse-Trading Dooms Bush's Energy Bill
The U.S. Senate blocked a package of 31-billion-dollar reforms that would have given the energy industry almost free rein, to the great detriment of the environment. It is unlikely a new bill will be passed on this touchy issue in 2004, an election year.RIGHTS-IRAQ: Group Demands Arrest of Envoy for Kurdish Campaign
A major U.S. human rights group, Human Rights Watch, called Friday for the immediate arrest and prosecution of Iraqi Gen. Hassan al-Majid, the alleged architect of the notorious 1988 'Anfal' campaign against Iraqi Kurds, who is currently on a diplomatic tour of neighbouring Arab states.RIGHTS-IRAQ: Group Demands Arrest of Envoy for Kurdish Campaign
A major U.S. human rights group called Friday for the immediate arrest and prosecution of Iraqi Gen. Hassan al-Majid, the alleged architect of the notorious 1988 'Anfal' campaign against Iraqi Kurds, who is currently on a diplomatic tour of neighbouring Arab states.ENVIRONMENT-U.S.: Shareholders Press Power Firms to Cut Emissions
A coalition of institutional investors is calling on the five largest emitters of greenhouse gases among U.S. electric-power plants to lay the groundwork for cutting those emissions, which most scientists believe contribute to global warming.RIGHTS-GUATEMALA: Groups Back Call for International Inquiry
Prominent U.S. human rights groups have lined up in strong support of the creation of an international commission proposed by Guatemala's Human Rights Ombudsman, Sergio Morales, to investigate the rising tide of violence and intimidation against rights activists.POLITICS-U.S.: Ghost of Lebanon Looms Over Iraq Occupation
''What I saw from my perch in the Pentagon," wrote Colin Powell, a major general in 1982, in his memoirs about Washington's brief but disastrous sojourn in Lebanon 20 years ago, ''was America sticking its hand into a thousand-year-old hornet's nest''.POLITICS-U.S.: Hawks Reveal Isolationist Impulses Over Korea
That the hawks in the administration of President George W. Bush along with their cheerleaders in the media and Washington think tanks are unilateralist has become conventional wisdom.RIGHTS: War on Terror Undermining U.S. Credibility, says Report
In its most blistering attack on U.S. foreign policy since the 1980s, Human Rights Watch (HRW) Tuesday accused the administration of President George W. Bush of ignoring human rights in pursuit of its ''war on terrorism'' and of driving the world toward a ''pre-modern Hobbesian order''.POLITICS-U.S.: The Unreality of Imminent War
There is something very unreal about being in Washington at the present time. On the one hand, there is a general assumption that the United States is going to invade Iraq - perhaps with U.N. Security Council approval, perhaps not - no later than mid- to late-March, and possibly as early as next month.POLITICS-U.S.: The Unreality of Imminent War
There is something very unreal about being in Washington at the present time.ENVIRONMENT: Report Finds Hope in Changing Attitudes, Actions
Despite major negative trends, people who care about the global environment and human welfare should not despair, according to the latest 'State of the World' report released here Thursday by WorldWatch Institute.POLITICS-KOREA: Is U.S. Willingness to Talk Real or a Tactic?
Does the Bush administration's new willingness to ''talk'' with North Korea mark a major policy shift or a tactical manoeuvre designed to put Pyongyang on a back burner while Washington focuses world attention on Iraq?ECONOMY: Singapore, Malaysia Most ‘Globalised’ Developing Nations
Led by Ireland, Switzerland, and Sweden, the countries of northern and western Europe are once again the world's most ''globalised'' nations, according to the third annual edition of Foreign Policy magazine's 'Globalisation Index', released Tuesday.RIGHTS/ENVIRONMENT: Indonesia Pressed to Stop Paper Industry Abuses
Indonesia's international donors are being pressed to link future aid to Jakarta to addressing the grievances of the local population in Sumatra against the country's pulp and paper industry and the security forces which protect it.POLITICS-U.S.: Korea is Iraq Spelled Backwards
Iraqi President Saddam Hussein must be green with envy. Not only has North Korean President Kim Jong Il eclipsed him in the U.S. mass media, but his fellow evil-doer in the infamous ''axis of evil'' is also defying the world's dominant power on a daily basis, and getting away with it.POLITICS-U.S.: Korea is Iraq Spelled Backwards
Iraqi President Saddam Hussein must be green with envy.MEDIA-U.S.: Islamic World Dominated 2002 Television News Coverage
So far as U.S. television network news is concerned, 2002 marked the ''Year of the Islamic World,'' according to annual statistics compiled by the authoritative Tyndall Report which released them Thursday.MEDIA-U.S.: Islamic World Dominated 2002 Television News Coverage
So far as U.S. television network news is concerned, 2002 marked the ''Year of the Islamic World,'' according to annual statistics compiled by the authoritative Tyndall Report which released them Thursday.« Previous Page — Next Page »
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