Global Analyst Online – Global News Blog / IPS By Emilio Godoy MEXICO CITY, Aug 27, 2010 (IPS) – Peasant activists Rodolfo Montiel and Teodoro Cabrera hope to find, at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, the justice that eluded them in their home country of Mexico, to which they hope to return to rejoin [...]
CHILE: Mapuche Prisoners on Hunger Strike to Demand Talks
August 13, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS Daniela Estrada SANTIAGO, Aug 12 (IPS) – The families of 32 Mapuche prisoners on a hunger strike for a month in different prisons in southern Chile have come to the capital to denounce irregularities in their trials and push for dialogue with the authorities. The hunger strike is [...]
Imprisonment of Judge Reflects Poorly on Venezuelan Justice
August 12, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS Estrella Gutiérrez CARACAS, Aug 11 (IPS) – ”One day more, one day less,” says María Lourdes Afiuni when she says hello or goodbye to her thousands of followers on Twitter. The Venezuelan judge has spent the last eight months in prison, because she decided that a defendant should [...]
MIDEAST: Homeless Take On Israeli Forces
August 10, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Mel Frykberg RAMALLAH, Aug 10, 2010 (IPS) – A bruising battle of will is taking place between Israeli security forces and Palestinians recently made homeless after two Palestinian villages were razed and hundreds left homeless. During the last few weeks over a thousand heavily armed Israeli riot [...]
AUSTRALIA: Compensation Isn’t Justice in Aboriginal Death – Critics
August 10, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Stephen de Tarczynski MELBOURNE, Australia, Aug 10, 2010 (IPS) – Late on a hot summer morning in January 2008, 46-year-old Aboriginal elder Mr Ward climbed into the back of a prisoner transport van for the 360- kilometre, four-hour journey from the small Western Australian goldfields town of [...]
COLOMBIA: Dismal Human Rights Record Has Not Dented Uribe’s Popularity
August 6, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Constanza Vieira and Helda Martínez BOGOTA, Aug 6, 2010 (IPS) – Colombian President Álvaro Uribe ends his second consecutive term Saturday with 75 percent approval ratings and strong international support reflected by his designation this week as vice chair of a United Nations-appointed international panel to investigate [...]
LEBANON: Racism Legitimised by Law
August 6, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Mona Alami BEIRUT, Aug 6, 2010 (IPS) – Lebanon has a reputation for openness because of the relative freedom enjoyed by women in comparison to other Middle Eastern countries. But many women face rampant discrimination. Women driving luxury vehicles with an Asian or African woman relegated to [...]
Dictators Guard Their Death Switch
August 6, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Cam McGrath CAIRO, Aug 6, 2010 (IPS) – Abolition movements are gaining momentum in North Africa, but authoritarian regimes appear reluctant to remove capital punishment from the penal code. "Rulers who could (abolish the death penalty) will not give it up easily," says Nasser Amin, director of [...]
RIGHTS-COLOMBIA: A Cemetery Full of Questions
August 6, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS Constanza Vieira LA MACARENA, Colombia, Aug 6 (IPS) – The most determined attempt by the far-right paramilitaries to establish a presence in this town in central Colombia ended in failure. They showed up in 2003, protected by the police. But local residents armed with sticks and shotguns caught [...]
Asia Tops in Punishing with Death
August 6, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IDN By Indira Srivastava IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis (IDN) – The hanging of two convicted murderers in Japan, exactly one year after the last executions took place, has put the spotlight on Asia as the dubious top-ranking region where almost all the death sentences were carried out in 2009 and the [...]
