Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Friday, October 24, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Zainab Mineeia WASHINGTON, Oct 24 (IPS) – A new report by Human Rights Watch (HRW) urges Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh to launch an independent commission to investigate arbitrary arrests and disappearances and to hold those [...]
COLOMBIA: Uribe Agrees to Talks with Indigenous Protesters
October 23, 2008 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Thursday, October 23, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Constanza Vieira* BOGOTA, Oct 23 (IPS) – ”The police did fire” on indigenous protesters, said Colombian President Álvaro Uribe, who yielded to pressure to meet next Sunday with the leaders of a two-week-long demonstration by native [...]
SRI LANKA: Troops Surround Rebel Hq – NGOs Ordered Out
September 9, 2008 By
Global Geopolitics – Global News Blog – Global Politics Online – IPS Tuesday, September 09, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Feizal Samath COLOMBO, Sep 9 (IPS) – Saying it was keen to avoid a repeat of the August 2006 massacre of 17 local workers of a French aid agency, the [...]
AUSTRALIA: Winning ‘Hearts and Minds’ in Afghanistan?
September 9, 2008 By
Global Geopolitics – Global News Blog – Global Politics Online – IPS Tuesday, September 09, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Analysis by Stephen de Tarczynski MELBOURNE, Sep 9 (IPS) – Responses by defence officials in the wake of a recent inquiry into claims that Australian soldiers mistreated detainees in Afghanistan [...]
INDIA: Tata Motors Move to Gujarat Less Than Secular
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Thursday, October 23, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Analysis by Praful Bidwai NEW DELHI, Oct 23 (IPS) – Tata Motors’ decision to shift the production site of its ultra-cheap, iconic Nano car from communist-ruled West Bengal state to Gujarat — scene of the 2002 [...]