DEVELOPMENT By Mar 18 'Aid Industry is Part of the Problem' - Aid organisations perpetuate humanitarian disasters. That is one of the conclusions made by war correspondent Linda Polman in her latest book as she describes the world of humanitarian aid. MORE >>
Q&A By Mar 18 Tapping Women's Enterprise to Topple Rural Poverty - Employees at the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) may have cause to fear for their jobs after Yukiko Omura was appointed vice president of the United Nations' rural poverty agency in February. MORE >>
RIGHTS By Mar 17 EU Selling Torture Equipment - Equipment designed for torturing prisoners is still being exported from European Union (EU) countries despite a four-year-old ban on such trade, according to a new report by Amnesty International. MORE >>
DISARMAMENT By Mar 17 Japan Pushes for Progress in U.S. Nuclear Review - Japanese parliamentarians and activists pin high hopes on the hotly debated and much anticipated U.S. Nuclear Posture Review (NPR) to which the Barack Obama administration is reported to be giving finishing touches. MORE >>
ENVIRONMENT By Mar 17 So That Vans May Pollute More - Three years after vehicle-makers succeeded in weakening new European Union (EU) pollution standards for cars, many of the same firms are hoping to frustrate efforts to make vans more fuel-efficient. MORE >>
BALKANS By Mar 16 Farming Prospers as Farmers Suffer - Official statistics put Serbian agriculture as the single most productive branch of the economy and one that not only survived the financial meltdown but chalked up a record trade surplus of almost a billion US dollars in 2009. MORE >>
ICELAND By Mar 16 They Also Serve Who Wait For a Prison Seat - After a nail-biting wait of more than a year Jon Palsson (not real name) is happy to have secured a place in the city jail and get an early enough chance to serve out a four-month sentence for drunk driving. MORE >>
CUBA By Mar 15 Human Rights at the Eye of the Storm - Cuba stepped up its state-controlled media offensive Monday in response to what the government calls a well-orchestrated international campaign of misinformation carried out in the last few weeks against this socialist island nation. MORE >>
HEALTH-UGANDA By Mar 15 EU Supports Law Threatening Access to Medicines - The European Union (EU) is funding the drafting of Uganda’s controversial Counterfeit Goods Bill, a proposed law that has caused an outcry as it threatens access to life-saving generic medicines in this low income East African country. Some 90 percent of medicines used in Uganda’s health-care system are imported, of which about 93 percent are generics. MORE >>
CULTURE By Mar 15 Poor Patronage Killing Arab Cinema - Arab cinema, which had a promising presence at international film festivals during the 1990s, may now be going through a declining phase for lack of patronage. MORE >>
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