Globalisation

June Election Offers Asia-Pacific a Chance for Greater Influence in ICC

By Valentina Ieri
The health-related resignation of an International Criminal Court (ICC) judge has paved the way for Asia-Pacific governments to improve their legal representation in the international legal system, said the group Coalition for the ICC on Thursday.

Better to Die at Sea, than Languish in Poverty

By Amantha Perera
Weerasinghearachilage Ruwan Rangana had it all planned out last year in September: the big break that would change his life and those of his extended family had finally arrived.

Argentina Moves Towards Marriage of Convenience with China

By Fabiana Frayssinet
The government of Argentina is building a marriage of convenience with China, which some see as uneven and others see as an indispensable alliance for a new level of insertion in the global economy.

OPINION: U.S. and Middle East after the Islamic State

By Emile Nakhleh
As the Congress ponders President Barack Obama’s request for an Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF) to fight the Islamic State (ISIS or IS), U.S. policymakers must focus on the “morning after” before they embark on another potentially disastrous war in the Levant.

Everything You Wanted to Know About Climate Change

By Manipadma Jena
So much information about climate change now abounds that it is hard to differentiate fact from fiction. Scientific reports appear alongside conspiracy theories, data is interspersed with drastic predictions about the future, and everywhere one turns, the bad news just seems to be getting worse.

Should We Celebrate 10 Years of the Global Tobacco Control Treaty?

By Laurent Huber
February 27 will mark the 10th anniversary of the World Health Organisation Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC), the first global public health treaty.

OPINION: Developing Economies Increasingly Vulnerable in Unstable Global Financial System

By Yilmaz Akyüz
After a series of crises with severe economic and social consequences in the 1990s and early 2000s, emerging and developing economies have become even more closely integrated into what is widely recognised as an inherently unstable international financial system. 

Latin American Migrants Suffer Prejudice in Their Own Region

By Fabiana Frayssinet
In the movie “A Day Without a Mexican“, the mysterious disappearance of all Mexicans brings the state of California to a halt. Would the same thing happen in some Latin American countries if immigrants from neighbouring countries, who suffer the same kind of discrimination, went missing?

OPINION: Patent Examination and Legal Fictions: How Rights are Created on Feet of Clay

By Carlos M. Correa
Industry’s demands and political pressures exerted by developed countries to expand and strengthen patent protection worldwide have been based on the argument that patents promote innovation and thereby contribute to achieve social, political and economic well-being, independently of the level of development of the country where they are granted and enforced.

Glimmer of Hope for Assange

By Gustavo Capdevila
There is a window of hope, thanks to a U.N. human rights body, for a solution to the diplomatic asylum of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, holed up in the embassy of Ecuador in London for the past two and a half years.

Cuba and U.S. Skirt Obstacles to Normalisation of Ties

By Patricia Grogg and Ivet González
The biggest discrepancies in the first meeting to normalise relations between Cuba and the United States, after more than half a century, were over the issue of human rights. But what stood out in the talks was a keen interest in forging ahead, in a process led by two women.

OPINION: Banks, Inequality and Citizens

By Roberto Savio
Every day we receive striking data on major issues which should create tumult and action, but life goes on as if those data had nothing to do with people’s lives.

OPINION: For the Good of Humanity – Towards a Culture of Caring

By Andrew MacMillan
About a week ago my wife was taken to hospital and diagnosed with pneumonia. She was promptly treated with antibiotics and, wonderfully, is now on the mend.

OPINION: Global Citizenship, A Result of Emerging Global Consciousness

By Arsenio Rodriguez
Globalisation is an integral feature of modernity. It already has significantly advanced to transform local experiences into global ones, to unify the disparate villages of the world into a global community, and to integrate national economies into an international economy.

Falling Oil Prices Threaten Fragile African Economies

By Thalif Deen
The sharp decline in world petroleum prices - hailed as a bonanza to millions of motorists in the United States - is threatening to undermine the fragile economies of several African countries dependent on oil for their sustained growth.

OPINION: Europe Has Lost Its Compass

By Roberto Savio
The Swedish Social Democrat government, which took office only two months ago, has just resigned. The far-right anti-immigrant Sweden Democrats sided with the four-party centre-right opposition alliance, and new elections will be held in March next year.

Only Half of Global Banks Have Policy to Respect Human Rights

By Carey L. Biron
Just half of major global banks have in place a public policy to respect human rights, according to new research, despite this being a foundational mandate of an international convention on multinational business practice.

Africa Laments as Kyoto Protocol Hangs in Limbo

By Wambi Michael
African countries fought hard for the Kyoto Protocol not to die on African soil at the 2011 Climate Change Conference in South Africa, but they say it is now languishing in limbo because developed countries are taking what they called “baby steps" towards ratification of the Doha Amendment that gave it a new lease of life.

Citizens of the World, Unite!

By Roger Hamilton-Martin
As politics, economies, conflicts and cultures become increasingly intertwined, will individual identities also begin to transcend national boundaries?

OPINION: The Decline of Social Europe is Part of a World Trend

By Roberto Savio
After the Italian sea search-and-rescue operation Mare Nostrum at a cost of nine million euros a month, through which the Italian Navy has rescued nearly 100,000 migrants – although perhaps up to 3,000 have died – from the Mediterranean since October 2013, Europe is now presenting its new face in the Mediterranean.

Laying the Foundations of a World Citizens Movement

By Anthony George
Has organised civil society, bound up in internal bureaucracy, in slow, tired processes and donor accountability, become simply another layer of a global system that perpetuates injustice and inequality?
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