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In Bangladesh, a Steady Pursuit of Freedom
This is an adaptation of a letter written by Kerry Kennedy, writer and President of the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights, for her daughters Cara, Mariah and Michaela after a recent...
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Ever Wondered Why the World is a Mess?
Addressing this column to the younger generations, Roberto Savio, founder and president emeritus of the Inter Press Service (IPS) news agency and publisher of Other News, offers ten explanations of how...
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North’s Policies Affecting South’s Economies
In this column, Yilmaz Akyuz, chief economist of the South Centre in Geneva, argues that in recent years developing countries have lost steam as recovery in advanced economies has remained weak or...
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From Havana to Bali, Third World Gets the Trade Crumbs
In this column, Chakravarthi Raghavan, renowned journalist and long-time observer of multilateral negotiations, analyses agreements to liberalise world trade since the Second World War up the recent...
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BRICS – The End of Western Dominance of the Global Financial and Economic Order
In this column, Shyam Saran, former Indian Foreign Secretary and currently Chairman of India’s National Security Advisory Board, argues that the new financial institutions put in place by the BRICS...
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Trade Facilitation Will Support African Industrialisation
In this column, Roberto Azevêdo, Director-General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), argues that the Trade Facilitation Agreement delivered by the Bali package in December last year will support...
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The ‘Global’ Land Rush
In this column, Anuradha Mittal, Executive Director of the Oakland Institute, an independent policy think tank on today’s most pressing social, economic, and environmental issues, argues that the time...
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Gabriel García Márquez – the Last Visit
In this column, Ignacio Ramonet, director of the Spanish language edition of Le Monde Diplomatique, writes about the last time he saw Colombian Nobel Literature laureate Gabriel García Márquez, who...
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What Do the World Bank and IMF Have to Do With the Ukraine Conflict?
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Militarism Should be Suppressed Like Hanging and Flogging
In this column, Mairead Maguire, peace activist from Northern Ireland and Nobel Peace Laureate 1976, argues that, in the face of growing militarism, civil society should take a stand for human rights...
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Africa-U.S. Summit – Catching Up With China?
In this column, Demba Moussa Dembele, director of the African Forum on Alternatives in Dakar, analyses the geopolitical reasons behind the recent summit in Washington between African leaders and the...
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Why Principle Matters at UN Human Rights Council
In this column, Mandeep Tiwana, a lawyer specialising in human rights and civil society issues and Head of Policy and Research at CIVICUS, the global civil society alliance, argues that too often...
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OPINION: At Last, New Faces at the European Union
In this column Joaquín Roy, Joaquin Roy, Jean Monnet Professor of European Integration and Director of the European Union Centre at the University of Miami, analyses the new faces and the balance of...
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OPINION: Say ‘No’ to War and Media Propaganda
In this column, Mairead Maguire, peace activist from Northern Ireland and Nobel Peace Laureate 1976, condemns NATO’s recent decision to create a new rapid reaction force for initial deployment in the...
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OPINION: ISIS Appeals to a Longing for the Caliphate
In this column, Farhang Jahanpour – former professor and Dean of the Faculty of Languages at the University of Isfahan, who has taught for 28 years in the Department of Continuing Education at the...
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OPINION: Tackling the Proliferation of Patents to Avoid Limitations to...
In this column, Carlos Correa, the South Centre's special adviser on trade and intellectual property issues, argues that the global increase in number of patents does not indicate the strength of...
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OPINION: Planet Racing Towards Catastrophe and Politics Just Looking On
In this column, Roberto Savio, founder and president emeritus of the Inter Press Service (IPS) news agency and publisher of Other News, argues that once again – and despite the hundreds of thousands...
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OPINION: Put People Power Back at Centre of Citizen Action
This column by Danny Sriskandarajah, Secretary-General of CIVICUS, the global alliance for citizen participation, explains the background to the open letter circulating among civil society activists...
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OPINION: The Disturbing Expansion of the Military-Industrial Complex
In this column, Mairead Maguire, peace activist from Northern Ireland and Nobel Peace Laureate 1976, argues that the whole of civilisation is facing a challenge with the continuing growth of the...
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Regional Trade Agreements Cannot Substitute the Multilateral System
In this column, Roberto Azevêdo, Director-General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), notes that regional trade agreements have proliferated in recent years and become more complex. However, he...
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