Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Wednesday, October 29, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Michael Chebsi ADDIS ABABA, Oct 29 (IPS) – Frozen in disbelief on the steps of the courthouse where she presided as a federal judge, Bertukan Mideksa watched as a man she had just ordered released on [...]
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 [...]
POLITICS-ZIMBABWE: Women Demand Movement On Talks
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Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Wednesday, October 29, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Ephraim Nsingo HARARE, Oct 28 (IPS) – Over 300 women gathered outside the Rainbow Towers Hotel in Harare on the morning of Oct. 27, dressed mostly in black and white. They were there to protest the [...]
DEVELOPMENT: Democracy Comes to World Institutions, Slowly
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Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Monday, October 27, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Analysis by John Vandaele* AMSTERDAM, Oct 27 (IPS) – Power and democracy don’t go together well in global governance. The most powerful global institutions are the least democratic, but things are changing. Slowly. Can a global [...]
EGYPT: Ruling Party in Free Fall
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Wednesday, October 29, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Adam Morrow and Khaled Moussa al-Omrani CAIRO, Oct 29 (IPS) – A high-ranking member of Egypt’s ruling National Democratic Party (NDP) is facing trial on charges of arranging the murder of a Lebanese pop singer. The [...]