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Ratko Mladic Goes on Trial for Genocide
May 16, 2012 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Correspondents* DOHA, Qatar, May 16, 2012 (IPS/Al Jazeera) – The trial of General Ratko Mladic, the former Bosnian Serb army chief accused of orchestrating war crimes and a campaign of genocide, has begun at a special U.N. court at The Hague in the Netherlands. Prosecutors at the [...]
Journalism is Not ‘More Fun’ in the Philippines
May 10, 2012 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Dennis Engbarth MANILA, May 10, 2012 (IPS) – Reporters working in the Philippines, the world’s third most dangerous nation for journalists, are having difficulty identifying with the "It’s More Fun in the Philippines" tourism promotion campaign launched by the Liberal Party-led government of President Benigno Aquino III. [...]
Tangled Web of Corruption Debilitates Mexico
May 10, 2012 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Emilio Godoy MEXICO CITY, May 10, 2012 (IPS) – Although Mexico has signed several multilateral anti-corruption agreements, so far these instruments have yielded few concrete results in combating the rampant bribery, extortion and embezzlement, according to experts. "We have the necessary legal instruments, but they are rarely [...]
Chinese Dissident Chen Seeks U.S. Exile Deal
May 3, 2012 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Correspondents * DOHA, May 3, 2012 (IPS/Al Jazeera) – Blind Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng has said he wants to leave for the U.S. rather than stay in China, throwing into doubt a deal used to coax him out of the U.S. embassy in Beijing and defuse an [...]
Refugees Dream of Return, Come Home to Nightmare
May 3, 2012 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Amantha Perera COLOMBO, May 3, 2012 (IPS) – Krishnaveni Nakkeeran has fled the country of her birth twice and returned twice in the last two decades. The 36-year-old mother of four from the northern Jaffna peninsula in Sri Lanka first fled the bloody civil war to India [...]
Malaysia’s New Security Act Spares Politicians
April 20, 2012 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Baradan Kuppusamy KUALA LUMPUR, Apr 20, 2012 (IPS) – Malaysia’s new internal security law is as draconian as the colonial law it has replaced, but has the saving grace that it will not target political opponents of the government, say critics. After a 52-year history of serious [...]
Returning Sudanese Child Soldiers Their Childhood
April 16, 2012 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Andrew Green* JUBA, Apr 15, 2012 (IPS) – As the process of reintegrating South Sudan’s child soldiers into their old lives begins soon, the Sudanese People’s Liberation Army renewal of its lapsed commitment to release all child soldiers from its ranks in March could mean that within [...]
BELARUS: Political Prisoners Facing Oppression
January 24, 2012 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Robert Stefanicki WARSAW, Jan 24, 2012 (IPS) – "I had to fight to be treated like a human, not animal," dissident Nikolai Avtukhovich wrote from prison. Last month Avtukhovich, Belarusian political activist and entrepreneur, convicted to five years in the penal colony for illegal storage of five [...]
SOUTH SUDAN: Still Counting the Dead in Inter-Ethnic Conflict
January 24, 2012 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Jared Ferrie PIBOR, South Sudan , Jan 24, 2012 (IPS) – In the ward of a partially destroyed clinic, Mangiro (who did not give his last name) sat on a bed next to his wounded nine-year-old daughter, Ngathin. The little girl is fortunate, she survived the recent [...]
