Global Politics Online / IPS Zofeen Ebrahim KARACHI, Nov 13 (IPS) – As the first batches of Haj pilgrims from Pakistan arrived at Saudi Arabia’s Jeddah airport for the current pilgrimage season they were, regardless of age, administered oral polio vaccine (OPV). Saudi Arabia, a polio-free country, is taking every precaution to prevent transmission of [...]
DRC: The Cost of War
November 8, 2008 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Stephanie Kale KIGALI, Nov 8 (IPS) – War is expensive. The costs include not only the millions of dollars spent on military equipment and maintaining an army, but the financial and psychological toll it takes on the everyday lives of people caught in the crossfire. When fighting takes place [...]
PERU: Free Trade Opens Environmental Window
November 1, 2008 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Saturday, November 01, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Milagros Salazar* – Tierramérica LIMA, Nov 1 (IPS) – Legislative decree 1090, which modifies Peru’s forest policy, is worrying U.S. trade authorities because it contravenes environmental clauses of the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) that is to [...]
RIGHTS-COLOMBIA: Extrajudicial Killings Under Scrutiny
October 30, 2008 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Thursday, October 30, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Constanza Vieira BOGOTA, Oct 30 (IPS) – The dismissal of 20 officers and seven noncommissioned officers for extrajudicial executions of civilians presented as battlefield casualties ”is a triumph for human rights organisations and for Colombian society [...]
FINANCE: Corporate Vows Tested in the West Bank
Global Politics Online / IPS Ida Karlsson UNITED NATIONS, Nov 12 (IPS) – A company that is a member of the U.N. Global Compact for corporate social responsibility has ties to production in an Israeli settlement on the West Bank considered illegal by the United Nations. A spokeperson for the company, Vileda, an international household [...]