From the 1st till the 12th of december, ministers of environment and climate from 190 countries, researchers and ngo-delegates gathered in the Polish city Poznán. It was the last big convention in the action plan towards the conference of Copenhagen in december 2009, where a post-Kyotoprotocol will have to be created.

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights celebrates its sixtieth anniversary. MO* commissioned an opinion poll with 500 Flemish citizens on the issue of human rights. The good news: the Flemish people are well disposed towards human rights. But wether human rights will receive the necessary support on an international level, is quite a different m ...

'A living legend.’ A good number of Cuban men and women could wear that title: musicians, politicians, athletes and writers. Marta Rojas is one of them.

Bolivia got very close to falling apart this fall; observers used terms like 'balkanisisation' and 'the Kosovo-option'. Thanks to an intervention of the South-American union, a secession of the rebellious crescent region could be avoided and the government received the necessary fiat from the opposition to organise a referendum on the new constitut ...

At the West Bank of the Jordan Valley, a generation of youth grows up forced to work. More than half of the inhabitants of the West Bank is unemployed, which makes children the real breadwinners of their families. Every day again, off they go. Some are lucky and find a job for the day in a Jewish settlement or workplace. School education and dreams ...

The Amazon basin constitutes a coveted reservoir in the rally for natural resources, energy, land and water. For both the forest and its inhabitants, the end of an era seems near.

Rabih Mroué is a Lebanese theatremaker and performer who performed all over Europe. During the Moussem Art Festival his Make me stop smoking was staged in Antwerp and in Brussels. It is an intriguing performance of a local artist using a global language.

In six months time – from April till October- governments all around the world have invested 8 trillion dollar in the banking system. And we’re nowhere near the end.

According to the European Commission, Europe and China should urgently set up talks about Africa. The Commission also calls for a conversation on peace and safety, infrastructure, environment and mineral wealth, agriculture and food in the black continent. According to critics, Europe only wants to defend its commercial interests and wants China to ...

Kirkuk has become a persistently emblematic case for Iraq. For the Kurds Kirkuk is their fourth province, a logical extension of the Kurd Autonomous Region (KAR). The Arab Iraqis and the Turkomen however claim Kirkuk to remain under Bagdad’s wings. The city and the province of the same name are already considered the ultimate test case for Iraq’s n ...

Seventeen years ago Albania was completely isolated from the rest of the world. Today, European membership is on the horizon. But every process of transition has to deal with growing pains.