In case anyone didnt notice, something rather historic happened this week. A new country -- East Timor -- was born. Mondays formal independence celebration in Dili, attended by the likes of UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, Indonesian President Megawati Sukarnoputri, and former US President Bill Clinton, commemerated the outcome of a 27-year struggle against...
New Delhi, 23 May 2002 - Child labour and highly unfair labour conditions for adult stitchers in the football industry are still common practices, despite the ...
Wednesday, May 8, 2002 -- Starting Point: New York, Union Square South at 4:00 PM, Rally and Candlelight Vigil at Dag Hammarskjold Plaza until 7:30 PM.
The ...
On May 8-10, the UN will be hosting the most important childrens event since the 1990 World Summit for Children. Heads of State and top officials will be meet...
The Labours governments plans to integrate the personal data held on British citizens by various government departments and agencies
is a dagger to the heart ...
A Venezuela está à beira do precipício. A ação concertada ainda pode evitar a sua queda. Mas quanto mais se atrase, mais venezuelanos morrerão por falta de medicamentos, pela má nutrição ou pela violência.
Tuesday?s ruling by the International Tribunal on the Law of the Sea has bought a little clarity to the problems in the South China Sea, but it has not made solving the underlying problems significantly...
Paradoxes have always abounded in the relationship between the Turkish military and the country?s politicians. Turkey?s armed forces ? or factions within them ? have justified their repeated interventions in politics with claims that they...
Venezuela is on the edge of the precipice. Concerted action may yet pull it back. But the longer it is delayed, the more Venezuelans will die from lack of medicines, malnutrition or violence.