Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Wednesday, October 29, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Jim Lobe WASHINGTON, Oct 29 (IPS) – Two weeks before U.S. President George W. Bush hosts an economic summit to address the six-week-old financial crisis that has wreaked havoc on the world’s capital and stock markets, [...]
POVERTY: Governments Still Don’t Do Enough
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Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Wednesday, October 29, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Zahira Kharsany JOHNNESBURG, Oct 29 (IPS) – More than 116 million people in 131 countries across the world participated in the global ”Stand Up and Take Action” campaign that became the biggest mass mobilisation on a [...]
ECONOMY: EU Involvement in DRC Mining Project Draws Protest
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Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Tuesday, October 28, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Michael Deibert LONDON, Oct 28 (IPS) – The involvement of the European Union in a mining project in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has drawn a chorus of protest from local and international human rights [...]
DEVELOPMENT: Bretton Woods II: New Lifeline for Ailing Giants
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Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Tuesday, October 28, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Analysis by John Vandaele* BRUSSELS, Oct 28 (IPS) – Europe, by way of the hyperactive French President Nicolas Sarkozy, demands a Bretton Woods II, that is, a major shake-up of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and [...]
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 [...]