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Muitos israelenses gostam de acreditar e repetir que seu exército é o “mais moral do mundo”. Mas, depois da guerra contra a faixa de Gaza entre dezembro de 2008 e janeiro de 2009, que deixou 1.400 palestinos mortos, a maioria civis, alguns israelenses começaram a questionar essa afirmação. Além (…)

In recent decades, Thailand has been running one of the world’s most successful national marketing campaigns. Building on its reputation for hospitality, beautiful beaches and splendid food, the tourism ministry has created an image of Thailand as an exotic paradise where travellers are ushered (…)

With this 40-page reportage published in Outlook India, Arundhati Roy becomes the first journalist to meet the Maoist rebels, or the Maoist Gonds, who are at war with the Indian state in the heart of India. Roy describes in depth how she fought her way through the forests with the rebels. She (…)

The Stockholm Programme, the latest in a series of EU agreements on security policy, was endorsed in December 2009. Based on the "principle of availability", the Programme plans to enable the cross-border collection, processing and sharing of data on a massive scale. Supposedly promoting (…)

DD Guttenplan and Maria Margaronis write in The Nation about the controversy surrounding Amnesty’s collaboration with Moazzam Begg, a former Guantánamo prisoner.
Gita Sahgad, head of Amnesty’s gender unit, spoke in the press against this collaboration and was suspended from the human rights (…)

The survivors of the devastating earthquakes in Haiti and Chile are still scrambling to deal with the damage. Here, however, pundits are still scrambling to explain the dramatic difference in impact. Haiti’s quake on January 12 came in at 7.0 on the Richter scale, leveled the capital city, and (…)

El presidente izquierdista de Bolivia, Evo Morales, llamó a las mujeres de su país a abandonar su supuesto carácter machista y aprovechar la oportunidad histórica de ocupar más de 50 por ciento de las representaciones políticas, demostrando su capacidad de gestión. Leer más

Para Marco Aurélio Garcia, coordenador com Emir Sader do livro "Brasil, entre o passado e o futuro", este livro não tem a pretensão de preencher um vazio que “só se preenche a partir de um movimento mais intenso da sociedade” mas tem o objetivo de chamar a atenção sobre o Brasil atual: “Grande (…)

No rastro de destruição deixado pelo terremoto, também ruiu uma parcela da ideologia enaltecedora do modelo neoliberal que Piñera representa. Diante da tragédia, salta aos olhos do mundo a debilidade da rede de proteção social do país. A ajuda pública demorou inexplicavelmente a chegar a cidades (…)

La lutte contre le VIH/SIDA ne peut occulter la prise en charge des groupes hautement vulnérables tels que les travailleuses du sexe et les hommes ayant des rapports sexuels avec d’autres hommes (MSM en sigle anglais qui signifie Men having sex with Men). Ces MSM, depuis les arrestations et (…)

El seminario de estrategia global, organizado por la red Por un modelo público de agua fue un espacio donde compartir conocimientos y experiencias sobre la mejora del suministro público de agua a través de procesos de democratización, asociaciones entre empresas y otros actores (asociaciones (…)

HeavensIl a suffi d’une décennie pour que les expériences démocratiques entamées en Afrique au début des années 1990, avec les conférences nationales, tournent court. Le continent est retombé dans les dérives des coups d’Etat. Face à la prolifération de régimes autocratiques et corrompus, la (…)

Depuis le début de l’année, les manifestations se multiplient dans les villes de Russie, la population se soulève contre la hausse brutale des charges, des impôts et taxes en tout genre, alors que les salaires diminuent et que le chômage touche de plus en plus de personnes.
Les difficultés (…)

In the London Review of Books, Tariq Ali tells about his recent trip to Yemen, after Obama and other US politicians started hinting that this country might become a new frontline yet in the ’war on terror’.
Recounting the country’s history since World War II, and in particular the war and (…)

La Côte d’Ivoire et le Ghana vont-il s’affronter autour du pétrole découvert à la frontière des deux pays ? La polémique est lancée, même si Abidjan et Accra jouent la carte de la diplomatie dans la gestion de ce dossier. Bertrand Gueu note que, vue d’Abidjan, la question fait plus l’objet de (…)

As most countries miss deadline to demonstrate openness on petroleum, mining revenues, an international initiative that seeks to promote more openness about how countries profit from their oil, gas, and mining resources should not weaken its modest membership standards because governments are (…)

How Allende’s Socialism - not "free-market" dictator Augusto Pinochet - Protected Chileans from Earthquake Fall-out. Read more

Un reportage télévisé troublant sur les origines de la pandémie mondiale de la grippe porcine, rebaptisée en terme plus diplomatique “grippe H1N1” : les responsables seraient les élevages industriels de porcs ou plutôt, comme il est dit dans la vidéo, le modèle économique dont ils font partie. (…)

Venezuela’s revolution has often been tied to the slogan “Socialism in the 21st Century.” What might that might mean concretely in changes under way in the renationalised state telecommunications company, CANTV?
TNI fellow, Daniel Chavez has been part of a team of international advisers (…)

Para lograr una mayor efectividad en la lucha contra químicos y otros contaminantes peligrosos que afectan la salud humana y el ambiente, representantes de más de 140 países acordaron en Indonesia la cooperación de los tres tratados internacionales que regulan su manejo.
Después de tres años (…)