Global Politics Online / IPS By Milagros Salazar LIMA, Nov 1, 2010 (IPS) – Four months after Peru’s worst toxic spill of mining waste, workers at the Caudalosa mine are demanding that it be reopened, while local communities want more cleanup of the rivers they depend on for water supplies. Caudalosa, a Peruvian-owned mining company, [...]
Fighting Violence with Death in Guatemala
November 1, 2010 By
Global Politics Online / IPS By Danilo Valladares GUATEMALA CITY, Nov 1, 2010 (IPS) – As the movement for the abolition of the death penalty gains ground worldwide, Guatemala is seeking to reintroduce capital punishment, which has been in legal limbo since 2000. Congress has already approved a law paving the way for the execution [...]
EUROPE: Drones may Track Migrants
November 1, 2010 By
Global Politics Online / IPS By Apostolis Fotiadis ATHENS, Nov 1, 2010 (IPS) – The notice appeared quietly on the website of Frontex, Europe’s agency to fight undocumented migration. It called for expressions of interest in demonstrating "Small UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) and Fixed systems for Land border surveillance" at its workshop. "In the domain [...]
Military Jury Tried to “Send a Message” in Khadr Case
November 1, 2010 By
Global Politics Online / IPS By William Fisher NEW YORK, Nov 1, 2010 (IPS) – A military jury at Guantanamo Bay sentenced a "child soldier" to 40 years in prison – unaware that Omar Khadr’s defence and prosecution lawyers had already agreed on an eight-year sentence and further agreed that the United States would send [...]
COURIER PACKAGE BOMBS & SECURITY FOR OBAMA: QUESTIONS & ANSWERS
October 31, 2010 By
INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM MONITOR—PAPER NO. 688 Global Politics Online B.RAMAN ( Based on open source information ) Q.What materials for assembling an improvised explosive device (IED) have been recovered by the authorities of the Dubai airport and the East Midlands airport of the UK from the cargo planes of the FedExpress and the UPS respectively which [...]
MIDEAST: Could Have Danced All Siege
October 31, 2010 By
Global Politics Online / IPS By Eva Bartlett DEIR AL-BALAH, Oct 31, 2010 (IPS) – "I’d planned to have my wedding party on a Thursday night, when more people could come, and stay later. But because the Dabke dancers weren’t free then, I held it on a Tuesday," says Mohammed Ghronaim, 27, from Deir al-Balah, [...]
Biodiversity Pact Begins With the Genes
October 31, 2010 By
Global Politics Online / IPS By Stephen Leahy* NAGOYA, Japan, Oct 31, 2010 (Tierramérica) – The delegates to the 10th Conference of Parties (COP 10) to the Convention on Biological Diversity ended up with a relatively weak plan for the Herculean task of halting the disappearance of species. The exception was a pact on the [...]
Haitian Mothers Find Care in Dominican Republic, but Future Is Bleak
October 30, 2010 By
Global Politics Online / IPS By Elizabeth Eames Roebling SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic, Oct 29, 2010 (IPS) – In the spacious lobby of the Nuestra Señora de Altagracia maternity hospital, more than a hundred people wait quietly in chairs, overlooked by a 20-foot-high coloured mosaic inset portraying the patron saint of the Dominican Republic. One [...]
ECUADOR: Diversity in Remembering the Dead
October 30, 2010 By
Global Politics Online / IPS By Gonzalo Ortiz QUITO, Oct 30, 2010 (IPS) – Tens of thousands of Ecuadorians are set to visit cemeteries on Tuesday, the traditional "Día de Finados" (Day of the Deceased). But while city residents tend to spend the day in mourning, for many indigenous peoples it is a day of [...]
RIGHTS-PAKISTAN: Death Row Convicts Bear Brunt of Torture
October 30, 2010 By
Global Politics Online / IPS By Zofeen Ebrahim KARACHI, Pakistan, Oct 30, 2010 (IPS) – As if being sentenced to death is not enough punishment, those on death row in Pakistan are also among those being singled out for abuse by jail personnel. This is according to rights groups that are already up in arms [...]
