Forested developing countries can collect big money from climate funds by preserving their forests or recovering neglected forests. In UN jargon this is called REDD + : Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation. Sounds good at the negotiating table, but deep in those very forests, things are going on that should not happen, let alon ...

The 2008 financial crisis and the lingering economic crisis are increasingly putting the economic globalization under pressure. Pankaj Ghemawat, an internationally renowned economist of Indian origin, thinks that there is plenty of space for more international integration. On the condition that efforts are being made to urgently increase emplo ...

Monday 7 November at 7 pm in the Kaaitheater in Brussels, two internationally recognized experts will debate about population, climate, migration and development.

Every day the world adds 209.000 inhabitants and the UN expects the 7 billionth living human to be born on October 31th. Will we welcome him or her chanting peace on earth for everone? Or will the reality be gloomier, and will the explosive population growth erase all the positive effects of our efforts to reduce our carbon footprint?

Worldwide tens of thousands of people marched protesting governments’ austerity measures, unemployment, financial institutions run like casinos, public bailouts of those same financial institutions, ecological decay, war, and a host of other things no longer shrugged off cynically.

Two Swedish journalists are accused by the Ethiopian authorities of aiding and cooperating with "terrorist organisations". They were apprehended while doing their work in the Ogaden region, where separatist movements are involved in an armed struggle with the central governement in Addis Abeba. MO* participated in the opening session of a high prof ...

With the arrival of spring, the war in Afghanistan returned in full force. All parties involved are struggling to be ready for the announced withdrawal of the international military presence, and for potential negotiations between rebels, government and international community. An eyewitness report from Jalalabad, Kabul and surrounding areas.

No less than eight million containers pass through the Port of Antwerp every year. Also for organized crime, the port is an indispensable link in its logistic chain.

Multiculturalism is under pressure. That’s an understatement. A very vague one to boot.

Intoxication, massive clearing, loss of biodiversity, forced evictions, land concentration and murder. The dark sides of 15 years of soy monoculture, a model driven by businesses and governments. 

The US operation in May 2011 that killed 9/11 mastermind Osama Bin Laden couldn't have contrasted more with the low-key arrest a few weeks later of Ratko Mladic, a man held responsible by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia for the siege of Sarajevo, and the Srebrenica massacre, the largest mass-murder in Europe since Worl ...