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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
U.S. Slides on Corruption Index
October 30, 2010 By
Global Politics Online / IPS By William Fisher NEW YORK, Oct 29, 2010 (IPS) – Iraq and Afghanistan rank near rock-bottom in an index of corruption in 178 countries that found that nearly three- quarters of the countries surveyed showed serious corruption problems. Iraq ranked 175 and Afghanistan 176 in the global index, just above [...]
