 | UN faces race against time and weather to obtain hazard-proof shelters for Haiti ( 2010-02-08 ) Photo: Haitians set up temporary shelters in Port-au-Prince stadium... (read more) |
 | Costa Rica elects female president ( 2010-02-08 ) Costa Ricans have elected their first female president, with Laura Chinchilla, the ruling party candidate, taking 47 per cent of the vote.... (read more) |
 | Brenda Norrell: Bolivia Peoples Climate Summit: Restoring the Balance ( 2010-02-08 ) COCHABAMBA, Bolivia -- Bolivian President Evo Morales, announcing the objectives of the upcoming Peoples Climate Summit, made it clear that the so-called develo... (read more) |
 | Western Shoshone and allies ask court to enforce ruling to halt gold mining on Mount Tenabo ( 2010-02-08 ) Photo: Western Shoshone continue to fight Barrick Gold of Canada in US federal court to halt an open pit gold mine on sacred Mount Tenabo. Photo Western Shoshon... (read more) |
| Israel: Attacks on New Israel Fund, Critical Groups, Threaten Civil Society ( 2010-02-08 ) The growing harshness of attacks by Israeli government officials on nongovernmental organizations poses a real threat to civil society in Israel, Human Rights W... (read more) |
| STATEMENT ON THE CLOSURE OF THE LEGAL CASE FOR IRAQ IN SPAIN ( 2010-02-08 ) FILED AGAINST FOUR US PRESIDENTS AND FOUR UK PRIME MINISTERS FOR WAR CRIMES, CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY AND GENOCIDE IN IRAQ CALL FOR COORDINATED ACTION ... (read more) |
.jpg) | US: Pentagon to Increase Stock of High-Altitude Drones ( 2010-02-08 ) WASHINGTON - The U.S. military plans to more than triple its inventory of high-altitude, armed and unarmed drones capable of 24-hour patrols by 2020.... (read more) |
| Michel Chossudovsky: Yemen and The Militarization of Strategic Waterways ( 2010-02-08 ) Securing US Control of Socotra Island and the Gulf of Aden The Yemeni archipelago of Socotra in the Indian Ocean is located some 80 kilometres off the... (read more) |
 | China may ban pet meat from menus ( 2010-02-08 ) The Chinese government is considering taking meat from pet animals off menus across the country, raising concerns among dog farmers who have relied on the indus... (read more) |
| Bluefin tuna main course of CITES world conference ( 2010-02-08 ) 175 Governments will also discuss urgent measures to tackle illegal wildlife trade and protect the livelihoods of the rural poor New measures to conse... (read more) |
 | India: Dr. Suman Sahai; GMOs, HIGH TIME EXPERTS OVERHAULED THE REGULATORY SYSTEM ( 2010-02-08 ) This is written in the wake of the turmoil in India on Bt brinjal ... (read more) |
| THE WEEK AHEAD AT THE UNITED NATIONS: THE EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVE (05/10) ( 2010-02-08 ) (Ed. Note. With apologies for the late posting. Computer troubles, again.) 6 - 12 February 2010 (and beyond) VIP Visits • Vernor Muñoz, UN Special... (read more) |
 | UN appeals for donations to restore Haiti’s quake-devastated educational system ( 2010-02-05 ) With hundreds of Haitian schools destroyed or damaged by last month’s devastating earthquake, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organizati... (read more) |
| Jim Miles: Haiti and its Canadian media presentation - Historical Amnesia ( 2010-02-05 ) The disaster of Haiti is well represented in Canadian media, with significant coverage in print and on television. "MacLean’s" magazine’s recent cover article p... (read more) |
 | Funding crisis threatens UN aid efforts in Yemen ( 2010-02-05 ) Photo: A group of forcibly displaced people in north Yemen. Many are desperately in need of aid ... (read more) |
 | Karachi bomb blasts leave many dead ( 2010-02-05 ) Two bomb blasts in the Pakistani city of Karachi, apparently targeting Shia Muslims marking a religious ceremony, have killed at least 22 people.... (read more) |
 | Bagram: Graveyard of the Geneva Conventions ( 2010-02-05 ) On January 15, 2010, the Pentagon released the first-ever list of prisoners held in the Bagram Theater Internment Facility, the main US prison in Afghanistan fo... (read more) |
| BAE Systems pays £286m over corruption charges ( 2010-02-05 ) Defence giant BAE Systems said today it had agreed to pay fines totalling £286 million to settle corruption charges with the Serious Fraud Office and US Departm... (read more) |
 | Gary G. Kohls, MD: Duty to Warn; Corporate Personhood ( 2010-02-05 ) If Corporations Have the Privileges of the Individual, Shouldn’t They Have Similar Punishments for Their Crimes?... (read more) |
| An Emergency Conference on the Social Crisis and War ( 2010-02-05 ) As the second decade of the 21st Century begins, humanity is confronted with the worst economic and social crisis since the 1930s and unending war that threaten... (read more) |
 | First International Session of the Russell Tribunal on Palestine, Barcelona, 1,2,3 March 2010 ( 2010-02-05 ) The first international session of the Russell Tribunal on Palestine will be held in Barcelona on 1, 2 and 3 March 2010.... (read more) |
| Jordan: Stop Withdrawing Nationality from Palestinian-Origin Citizens ( 2010-02-05 ) Authorities Arbitrarily Withdraw Nationality From More Than 2,700; Hundreds of Thousands at Risk Jordan should stop withdrawing nationality arbitraril... (read more) |
| No. Ireland: North justice and policing powers to transfer in April ( 2010-02-05 ) Taoiseach Brian Cowen and British prime minister Gordon Brown today published a deal to save Northern Ireland’s power-sharing government, confirming it will tak... (read more) |
 | Independent UN expert urges immediate cancellation of Haiti’s external debt ( 2010-02-04 ) Photo: Haitian farmers clear land for planting... (read more) |
 | UNICEF Humanitarian Action Report 2010 emphasizes power of partnerships ( 2010-02-04 ) Photo: A displaced girl queues for food at Chota Lahore camp in North-West Frontier Province, Pakistan. UNICEF's Humanitarian Action Appeal 2010 requests $1.16 ... (read more) |