Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS Stephen Leahy NAIROBI, May 31 (IPS) – Developing countries rich in plants and animals but poor in financial and technical resources refused to make binding commitments to halt the unraveling of the planet’s biological infrastructure at the close of a major meeting Friday at the U.N.’s African headquarters [...]
PAKISTAN: Furore Over Leaked Tape Cause for Media Soul Searching
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Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Zofeen Ebrahim KARACHI, Pakistan, May 31, 2010 (IPS) – The continuing debate on the purported audiotape implicating Pakistani television anchor Hamid Mir, popular and controversial in equal measure, has raised serious concerns about the media amid calls for an impartial investigation to uncover the truth behind the [...]
Killings Could Boomerang on Israel
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Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS Analysis by Jerrold Kessel and Pierre Klochendler JERUSALEM, May 31, 2010 (IPS) – What exactly happened on the high seas off the Gaza-Israel coast remains in murky waters. Already though, the implications of Israel’s assault on the peace flotilla of civilian vessels headed with humanitarian relief supplies for [...]
BIODIVERSITY: Imagine a World Without Bluefin Tuna
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Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS Julio Godoy* – Tierramérica PARIS, May 31 (IPS) – The bluefin tuna, an ”apex predator” fish of the Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea, is condemned to extinction within two years by the inaction of the industrialised North and international regulatory bodies, predict marine biologists and environmentalists. Although such [...]
PERU: Extradition of Chinese Citizen at Risk of Death Penalty Halted
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Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS Ángel Páez LIMA, May 31 (IPS) – Peru will not extradite Wong Ho Wing, a Chinese citizen wanted by the courts in his country for a crime that carries the death penalty, until the Inter-American Court of Human Rights rules on his case, according to a letter from [...]
Are Namibian Women Being Forcibly Sterilised?
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Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS Servaas van den Bosch REHOBOTH, Namibia May 31 (IPS) – A landmark court case, alleging that HIV-positive women were forcibly sterilised in Namibian state hospital begins in Windhoek’s High court on June 1. Human rights groups claim the practice has continued long after the authorities were notified. Three [...]
MIDEAST: Israeli Navy Storms Humanitarian Flotilla
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Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Mel Frykberg RAMALLAH, May 31, 2010 (IPS) – Israeli naval commandos shot dead at least 16 people and wounded over 30 on Monday morning, as they attacked an unarmed humanitarian and civilian flotilla – in international waters – trying to bring desperately needed aid to Gaza. The [...]
MALAWI: Gay Couple Released After Presidential Pardon
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Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS Laure Pichegru JOHANNESBURG, May 31 (IPS) – Five months and a day after their arrest, the gay Malawian couple who dared to publicly declare their union with a traditional engagement party were pardoned by the president and released without conditions. Stephen Monjeza and Tiwonge Chimbalanga were found guilty [...]
RIGHTS: Mexico Ignores Inter-American Court Rulings
May 31, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS Emilio Godoy MEXICO CITY, May 31 (IPS) – Six months after the Inter-American Court of Human Rights handed down two sentences against the Mexican state, one of them linked to the wave of murders of women in Ciudad Juárez, little has been done to comply with the rulings. [...]
Fears Grow over Oil Spill’s Long-Term Effects on Food Chain
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Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Matthew Cardinale* ATLANTA, Georgia, May 31, 2010 (IPS/IFEJ) – As oil continues gushing from the ocean floor into the Gulf of Mexico, with no sign of stopping until a new well is finished this August, scientists, environmentalists and local residents are beginning to reckon with the reality [...]
