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...
View ArticleInvestment 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,...
View ArticleEgypt’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...
View ArticleAcquittal 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...
View ArticleExecution 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...
View ArticleA 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...
View ArticlePower 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...
View ArticlePrisons 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...
View ArticleU.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...
View Article"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...
View ArticleMexican 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...
View ArticleExecution 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...
View ArticleArgentine 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...
View ArticleOperation 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...
View ArticlePERU: 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...
View ArticleCivil 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,...
View ArticleBigger 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...
View ArticleDoor 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,...
View ArticleCartel 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...
View ArticleFree 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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