On Thursday June 10th AidWatch Report presented its Penalty Against Poverty Report, focusing on how the EU Member States are missing their official development aid targets and jeopardising global efforts to reach the Millenium Development Goals. The agreement of the Millenium Development Goals a decade ago at the 2000 UN Millenium conference, repre ...

On Thursday June 10th, AidWatch presented its report: "Penalty Against Poverty” in Brussels. The meeting focused on how the EU Member States are missing their official development aid targets and jeopardising global efforts to reach the Millenium Development Goals.The agreement of the Millenium Development Goals a decade ago at the 2000 UN Milleniu ...

The violence in Mexico continues to be a nightmare for the citizens of the Central American country. Since President Felipe Calderon came to the power at the end of 2006 more than 22,000 people have been killed.

‘Respect for human rights also requires that we also recognize that everybody has the right to the things which are essential for a dignified existence – food, water, basic health care, education and housing. Those rights – which are based on universal values – give people who live in poverty an instrument to restore the disturbed balance of power ...

The pipelines that are under construction today – Nord Stream, South Stream and Nabucco – determine the energy security of Europe tomorrow. ‘One can not understand current international policy if one has no eye for the energy dimension.’

European governments routinely focus on the importance of human rights, although they often neglect to mention the economic, social and cultural rights. Former Amnesty International Secretary General Irene Khan considers poverty to be the worst human rights violation, and marginalized groups should be provided with political and civil rights in ord ...

More than two million hectares. That is the area of Western-funded plantations for energy crops in Africa. Investors in biofuels have a rendezvous from the 12th until the 15th of April in Johannesburg for the annual African Biofuels conference. They are discussing their business prospects in Africa, the future paradise for the green gold. Will the ...

One out of five Flemings doesn’t trust his bank anymore Six percent of the Flemish has switched banks as a response to the financial crisis – a stupendous number according to experts. One quarter saw his income reduced, and one in five doesn’t trust his bank anymore. These are a few remarkable results from the survey on the management of the econo ...

Long before Iran's identity was based on Khomeini and oil, there was literature. For Iran language is like food and water; writers are held in a much higher regard than mollahs, which the latter, would like to see changed by petty laws and brutal repressions. Just ask writer Shahriar Mandanipour:

Kashmir is an explosive mixture of colonial hangovers, national identities, regional ambitions, serious human rights violations, increasingly scarse water and a global jihad. No surprise, then, to see the violence in Kashmir being linked to the war in Afghanistan and the violent uprisings in Pakistan. Geographical proximity and religious-ideologica ...

Within the tangle of violence in Eastern Congo, the Rwandese militias of the FDLR count today as the main culprits. The militia grew out of the two million people who fled from Rwanda to Congo after the genocide, and is systematically called ‘the génocidaires’ by the Rwandese government. John Vandaele put on his walking boots and crisscrossed the f ...

For decades, students of security and international politics have debated the emergence of a multipolar system. It’s time we recognize the new economic parallel.