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Kurdish Prisoners Hungry for Freedom

Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS Katie Lin, Cagri Cobanoglu DIYARBAKIR, Nov 13 (IPS) – Five MPs from Turkey’s main Kurdish political party, the Peace and Democracy Party (BDP), and the...

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Investment Treaties Can Prove Damn Costly

Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IDN A spate of lawsuits triggered by transnational corporations against Argentina, Ecuador, India. Indonesia, Uruguay, Vietnam, Australia and Canada,...

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Egypt’s Morsi to Meet Judges over New Powers

Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS AJ Correspondents DOHA, Qatar, Nov 26 (Al Jazeera) – Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi is set to meet senior judges on Monday to try to ease a crisis...

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Acquittal in The Hague Sparks Controversy

Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS Vesna Peric Zimonjic BELGRADE, Nov 24 (IPS) – Stojan Kovacevic spent last weekend going about his usual routine in his tiny dwelling in the village of...

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Execution Met With Silence in Pakistan

Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS Zofeen Ebrahim KARACHI, Nov 26 (IPS) – Wednesday, Nov. 21, dawned like any other in the sleepy town of Faridkot, located some 150 kilometres from the...

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A Year of Progress in Argentina’s Human Rights Trials

Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS Marcela Valente BUENOS AIRES, Dic 26 (IPS) – Although it didn’t receive much media coverage, this year Argentina’s justice system made strides in...

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Power in Bolivia’s Gas-Rich Chaco Region Thrust into Indigenous Hands

Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS Stephanie Wildes TARIJA, Bolivia, Dic 27 (IPS) – Due to the intense political polarisation in the Chaco region, home to Bolivia’s oil and natural gas...

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Prisons in Mexico on Verge of Collapse

Global News Blog / IPS Daniela Pastrana MEXICO CITY, Dic 28 (IPS) – Edgar Torres Castillo, 21, has spent two years in the prison of Gómez Palacio, in the Lagunera district between the northern Mexican...

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U.S. Prison Population Seeing “Unprecedented Increase”

Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS Carey L. Biron WASHINGTON, Feb 04 (IPS) – The research wing of the U.S. Congress is warning that three decades of “historically unprecedented” build-up...

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"Pregnant, Chained to a Wall and Starved", One of 136 Terror War Stories

Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS “We’ve got to spend time in the shadows in the intelligence world,” said then Vice President Dick Cheney (left) in 2001. “A lot of what needs to be done...

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Mexican Victims Get Law That "Should Not Have to Exist"

Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS Daniela Pastrana MEXICO CITY, Feb 08 (IPS) – “We will not stop fighting until there is justice for our children,” says Araceli Rodríguez, the mother of...

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Execution Sparks Unrest in Kashmir

Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS Athar Parvaiz SRINAGAR, Feb 11 (IPS) – “Give us his body; we want to give him a respectable burial…” this is the overwhelming demand across Kashmir...

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Argentine Rights Violators under "House Arrest" Stroll the Streets

Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS Marcela Valente BUENOS AIRES, Feb 16 (IPS) – In spite of repeated violations of house arrest by people convicted of crimes against humanity during...

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Operation Condor on Trial in Argentina

Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS Manuel Cordero, captured on camera in 2009 by a journalist with Uruguay’s Channel 12 violating house arrest in Brazil. Credit: Canal 12 Marcela Valente...

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PERU: Stepping Up Protection for Native Groups in Voluntary Isolation

Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS Women and children from a Nanti community in initial contact with Western culture in the Peruvian region of Madre de Dios. Credit: INDEPA Milagros...

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Civil Society Fears Taliban Return

Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS Young Afghan posing in front of one of the graffiti works of artist Reza Amiri. Credit: Giuliano Battiston/IPS Giuliano Battiston JALALABAD,...

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Bigger Dangers Lurk Behind Berlusconi Scandal

Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS An ECPAT campaign picture against sexual exploitation. Credit: Arabella Shelbourne. Silvia Giannelli ROME, Jul 07 (IPS) – The scandal around the...

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Door Closing on Universal Justice in Spain

Poster demanding justice 10 years after the death of journalist José Couso. Courtesy: Family, Friends and Colleagues of José Couso Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS Ines Benitez MALAGA,...

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Cartel Boss Captured, Mexican Drug Trade Marches On

Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS Emilio Godoy MEXICO CITY, Feb 25 (IPS) – The arrest of the head of the Sinaloa drug cartel, Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, will not affect drug trafficking...

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Free Trade Is Not So Free After All

Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IDN By Julio Godoy* | IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis BARCELONA (IDN) – International negotiations on so-called “free trade agreements” have always had something...

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