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La pena de muerte se cobra cada año miles de vidas. En 2004, fueron 3.797 en 25 naciones. En los países donde aún persiste esta práctica, la condena recae de manera desproporcionada sobre minorías y pobres. En algunos casos, enfermos mentales y menores son víctimas de la más cruel de las (…)

Especialistas de diferentes partes do mundo tentam atrair a atenção para doenças pouco conhecidas e deixadas de lado pelos grandes laboratórios farmacêuticos, como leishmaniose visceral e doenças do sono e de Chagas. Leia mais

The first decade of the 21st century has been dominated by wars that have killed or injured close to half a million people, wars that arose after determined paramilitaries used parcel-knives to exploit the weaknesses of the world’s most advanced state. That incident might in principle have been (…)

Entrevista a Julian Harston, ex-Representante del Secretario General de la ONU. Nacido en Nairobi en 1942, este diplomático británico acumula en su oficina en Belgrado multitud de recuerdos que hablan, de manera fascinante, de sus destinos anteriores. Tras cuatro décadas de servicio (…)

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 (…)

La economía neoclásica, neoliberal o capitalista ha fracasado. Casi ningún economista convencional lo reconoce, pero el crack del 2008 y sus consecuencias, la crisis climática, el ensanchamiento de la brecha de desigualdad y el hambre crónica del 20 por ciento de la población constituyen los (…)

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 (…)

Kenya suffers from recurring drought. The situation during the past three years, however, has reached levels unparalleled in living memory.
"Kenya’s Hunger Crisis - the Result of Right to Food Violations" is the title of a report launched today by FIAN International and RAPDA. These words also (…)

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 (…)

Since Afghanistan now grows the opium poppies that provide more than 90% of the world’s opium, the raw material for the production of heroin, it’s not surprising that drug-trade news and war news intersect from time to time. More surprising is how seldom poppy growing and the drug trade are (…)

Après « Dette odieuse » et « Le système Dette - T1 : La Paz », le CADTM sort une nouvelle bande dessinée !
Menacée par ses révélations sur le « Système Dette », la journaliste bolivienne Juanita Vega accepte de mener une grande enquête sur les rapports de force internationaux depuis 60 ans. (…)

Shifts in global power, ongoing or potential, are a lively topic among policy makers and observers. One question is whether (or when) China will displace the United States as the dominant global player, perhaps along with India.
There is yet another significant shift in global power: from the (…)

Selon Dimity Hawkins, directeur de la Campagne internationale pour l’abolition des armes nucléaires (ICAN), l’histoire n’a jamais fourni un meilleur moment pour agir sur le désarmement nucléaire. Le désir de libérer le monde de 23.300 armes nucléaires actuellement dans des stocks mondiaux fait (…)

Dans son édition 2009, le Rapport de Social Watch inclut plus de 60 rapports nationaux du monde entier élaborés par des organisations de la société civile membres du réseau de Social Watch international. La conclusion à partir de sa lecture est que seulement à travers un fort investissement dans (…)

Entre 30 y 40 por ciento de los impuestos que deberían recaudar los países en desarrollo terminan en paraísos fiscales. Esos pasajeros clandestinos suman cada año un billón de dólares a la fuga de capitales desde el mundo "pobre". Leer más

As much as those who identify themselves as social progressives would like to believe otherwise, writes Dale McKinley, ‘the reality is that South Africa is a bastion of social conservatism’. One of the most glaring contradictions of South Africa’s post-apartheid ‘transition’, says McKinley, ‘is (…)

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