Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Marcela Valente* – Tierramérica BUENOS AIRES, Jun 24 (IPS) – Local residents and environmentalists are eyeing with cautious optimism a major loan from the World Bank to the Argentine government to clean up the Matanza-Riachuelo river that runs through Buenos Aires – the country’s most polluted waterway. ”There is [...]
EAST TIMOR: UN Helps to Mitigate Disaster Risk
June 23, 2009 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS By Matt Crook DILI, Jun 24 (IPS) – Disasters happen regularly in East Timor, but until now, the institutions called on to deal with them have struggled to effectively react to seasonal events that impact thousands of Timorese lives every year. "We are yet to be truly prepared to [...]
US-SUDAN: Limited Progress Made to Rescue Peace Accord
June 23, 2009 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Marina Litvinsky and Jim Lobe* WASHINGTON, Jun 23 (IPS) – The United States Tuesday urged the government of Sudan and former rebels in the south to re-invigorate their 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA), as 30 Sudanese political leaders met with 170 observers from 32 countries and international organisations here [...]
POLITICS-US: Obama ”Appalled” by Iran Repression
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Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Khody Akhavi and Ali Gharib WASHINGTON, Jun 23 (IPS) – Facing a growing chorus of Republican criticism to speak out more forcefully on Iran’s disputed election results, the U.S. president made his harshest statement yet Tuesday, condemning Iran’s leadership for its violent crackdown on protesters. Barack Obama told a [...]
EL SALVADOR: Leftist Govt Clamps Down on Corruption
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Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Raúl Gutiérrez SAN SALVADOR, Jun 23 (IPS) – Serious allegations of corruption involving central figures in the government of right-wing former Salvadoran president Antonio Saca (2004-2009) will be investigated by a commission led by Finance Minister Carlos Cáceres. Left-wing President Mauricio Funes, who took office on Jun. 1, announced [...]
IRAN: Harsh Crackdown Extends to Leading Opposition Figures
June 23, 2009 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Sara Farhang TEHRAN, Jun 23 (IPS) – Eleven days after Iran’s disputed Jun. 12 president election, the government of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad appears determined to round up key members of the opposition, journalists and human rights activists who could play a key role in rallying public support for opposition [...]
MALAYSIA: Blacklisted For Not Enforcing Trafficking Laws
June 23, 2009 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS By Baradan Kuppusamy KUALA LUMPUR, Jun 24 (IPS) – After years of lobbying by rights activists and the international community, Malaysia passed an effective and comprehensive law in 2007 against human trafficking with provisions for protection, shelter and return of trafficked person to their home countries. That law earned [...]
MOROCCO: African Refugees Targeted
June 23, 2009 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS By Daan Bauwens Refugees outside the UNHCR office in Rabat. Credit:Daan Bauwens RABAT, Jun 23 (IPS) – More than 300 African refugees are gathered at the gates of the Moroccan United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR), asking to be moved to another country because their rights are not respected in [...]
ECONOMY-ZAMBIA: Hard Times on the Copperbelt
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Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Kelvin Kachingwe Luanshya, ZAMBIA, Jun 23 (IPS) – Nowhere in Zambia is the impact of the global financial crisis being felt harder than in the copper and cobalt-rich province of the Copperbelt. The province has for a long-time been the goose that lays the golden egg for the country. [...]
AVOID DEMONISING AUSTRALIAN SOCIETY
Global Geopolitics Net Sites Friday, June 26, 2009 B.RAMAN Recurring incidents of violence by individual elements against Indian students in Australia have understandably given rise to concern in India as well as in the Indian student community in Australia about the physical security of the Indian students. This is a matter which needs the well-considered [...]