Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Faustine Kapama ARUSHA, Tanzania, Jun 24, 2011 (IPS) – Rwanda’s former minister of family and women affairs and the only woman to be indicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), Pauline Nyiramasuhuko, has been sentenced to life imprisonment for genocide and rape, among other crimes. [...]
Uphill Battle to Save Australians From Execution
June 23, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Stephen de Tarczynski MELBOURNE, Jun 23, 2011 (IPS) – Any Australian government efforts to have two of its citizens spared from the death penalty in Indonesia have been made more difficult by past refusals to intervene on behalf of three Indonesian Islamists in the lead-up to their [...]
BRAZIL: Protected Witness Speaks Out – Part 1
May 26, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Fabíola Ortiz RIO DE JANEIRO, May 26, 2011 (IPS) – Despite the risks involved, a man who is under the witness protection programme in Brazil and his wife decided to tell their story to IPS, to denounce flaws in a system that, in their case, has added [...]
Arrest Takes Serbia Towards Reconciliation, and the EU
May 26, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Vesna Peric Zimonjic BELGRADE, May 26, 2011 (IPS) – "Nothing can bring back our husbands or children, but this means so much for us; the man who ordered them killed is finally going to face justice," says Hajra Catic, head of the Women of Srebrenica Association, following [...]
CHILE: Dictatorship-Era Law Used to Squelch Activism
May 26, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Pamela Sepúlveda SANTIAGO, May 25, 2011 (IPS) – "What is happening in Chile isn’t justice; it’s a pantomime, because under the anti-terrorism law, there is absolutely no way justice can be done," José Venturelli, spokesman for the European Secretariat of the Ethics Commission against Torture, said on [...]
COLOMBIA: Displaced Campesinos Want a Say on Land Restitution Bill
May 2, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Helda Martínez BOGOTÁ, Apr 28, 2011 (IPS) – The Colombian government has been extolling a bill on Victims and Land Restitution which is being debated in Congress and is receiving extensive media coverage. But the demands of the victims themselves, forcibly displaced campesinos, are falling on deaf [...]
INCRIMINATING SPOTLIGHT ON ISI IN THE US
April 29, 2011 By
INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM MONITOR: PAPER NO. 712 Global Geopolitics & Political Economy B.RAMAN Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) Directorate has come under incriminating spotlight in the US as a result of the ongoing judicial proceedings in a Chicago court against Tahawwur Hussain Rana of the Chicago cell of the Lashkar-e-Toiba (LET) in connection with the 26/11 terrorist [...]
Time To End Corporate Impunity
April 26, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IDN By Nnimmo Bassey* IDN-InDepth NewsViewpoint LAGOS (IDN) – People who have suffered the impact of unjust practices and those who have been victims of abuse from corporate impunity will heave a sigh of relief the day directors of such companies are brought to court from behind their [...]
DEATH PENALTY: ‘It Cheapens Human Life’
April 13, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS Alma Balopi interviews DUMA BOKO, Motswana death penalty abolitionist GABORONE, Apr 13, 2011 (IPS) – In a country where the death penalty enjoys vocal support from both the government and the public, lawyer and politician Duma Boko is not afraid to stand firmly against it. Boko will be [...]
Mexican Women March for Rights, Mourn Slain Activists
April 12, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Daniela Pastrana MEXICO CITY, Apr 12, 2011 (IPS) – For the first time, Mexico has a female attorney general – the highest post ever reached by a woman in this country. But elation at this achievement is overshadowed by grief over the brutal murders of women police [...]
