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Malawi Considers Controversial EU Trade Deal

Global Politics Online / IPS Mabvuto Banda BLANTYRE, Oct 17 (IPS) – Malawi has opened up negotiations on the economic partnership agreement (EPA) with the European Union, which have been deadlocked since 2002.The new round of negotiations may see President Joyce Banda’s administration change the status quo and sign the free trade agreement. “We have [...]

Violence Against Women Persists in Bangladesh

Global Politics Online / IPS Naimul Haq DHAKA, Oct 17 (IPS) – Bangladesh, often cited as a model of progress in achieving the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), appears to be sliding backwards when it comes to dealing with violence against women (VAW). Police statistics and assessments by non-government organisations (NGOs) working to establish [...]

Communities Organise to Confront Climate Change in El Salvador

Global Politics Online / IPS Edgardo Ayala SAN NICOLÁS LEMPA, El Salvador, Oct 17 (IPS) – Armed with chainsaws, machetes and shovels, local residents of El Salvador’s Lower Lempa River Basin, near the Pacific Ocean, are unblocking the flow of rivers and pruning the branches of trees on riverbanks to keep them from falling into [...]

OP-ED: What We Owe Our Youth

Global Politics Online / IPS Heraldo Muñoz MEXICO CITY, Oct 17 (IPS) – On Wednesday, we kick off a three-day meeting in Mexico City to discuss how to boost the involvement of young people in politics and expand their role in consolidating democracy in Latin America and the Caribbean. More than 30 youth organisations, young [...]

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Caught Between Islamists and the Military

Global Politics Online / IPS Ahmed Usman KANO, Nigeria, Oct 16 (IPS) – Locals in the city of Maiduguri in the northeastern Nigerian state of Borno have intensified their calls for the military to withdraw from the town, the stronghold of the Islamist extremist group Boko Haram, after claims that they are being maltreated and [...]

Local Money Sets Its Own Stamp

Global Politics Online / IPS Claudia Ciobanu VENICE, Oct 17 (IPS) – Bristol, the eighth most populous town in the UK, has launched a local currency – the Bristol Pound. That makes it one of the largest localities to embrace a complementary currency among more than 2,500 worldwide. In all, 125,000 Bristol Pounds were put [...]

An Empty Chair in Colombia’s Peace Talks in Oslo

Global Politics Online / IPS Constanza Vieira BOGOTA, Oct 17 (IPS) – Closed-door talks between members of the FARC guerrillas and the Colombian government began in Oslo Wednesday, after the delegates were taken from the airport to an undisclosed location.The negotiators plan to speak to the press in the Norwegian capital on Thursday. The two [...]

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Caught Between Islamists and the Military

Local Money Sets Its Own Stamp

An Empty Chair in Colombia’s Peace Talks in Oslo

Malawi Considers Controversial EU Trade Deal

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