For those of you who read my post on Mark Seidenfeld's incarceration and trial delay, the article by Ilan Greenberg has been corrected at the NYT site (I linked to the International Herald Tribune version of NYT piece). As noted by comments received, Mr. Seidenfeld's employer was improperly …
See my colleague Cassandra Clifford's recent two articles on Children and Climate Change. These, along with the rest of her material, are hard hitting. Start here.
I talked about the depth and the intensity of the activity on renewable energy these days in my post from April 5. Here are some notes from recent news stories and elsewhere that highlight this theme.
PepsiCo , "PepsiCo makes big renewable energy buy" …
On Sunday, April 29, 2007, in 35 cities around the world, including London, Rome, Melbourne and DC, demonstrations where held to bring awareness to the victims of the conflict that is raging in Sudan's, Darfur region. The Global Day for Darfur was organized by various human rights and humanitarian …
Bermet Akaeva, the daughter of ousted Kyrgyzstani President Askar Akaev, recently continued her odd-yssey of reinstatement in Kyrgyzstan's political life. On March 23 of this year, she filed to run as a candidate for national legislature from the northern Kemin district. More than a month of legal challenges in Kyrgyzstani courts ensued. …
German courts have rejected charges against former Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld. The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), a New York based non-profit legal organization, has accused Rumsfeld, as well as Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez and former director of The Central Intelligence Agency George Tenet, of "torture …
Today as Global Days for Darfur wind down, the situation in the country rages one, and that's why we need your help.
“Take Action Today!” Join others and call the White House comment line at 202-456-1414, and “tell the president that time …
This week's news roundup features stories on racial inequality in the UK, an update on the immigration debate in the US and Canada's search for new migrants to help it cope with its recent oil boom:
ITV, the UK news channel, features a story on research by the …
President Felipe Calderon participated in Earth Day ceremonies on an ecological reserve, calling for greater environmental education in the country's schools. Arguing that educational programs will improve the environment and combat global warming, Calderon also signed a decree aimed at protecting the endangered “El Hundido” aquifer in Coahuila state.
Calderon has …
Given it's role as the largest anti-apartheid liberation organization, its central role in the transition to democracy, and its virtually insuperable status in the country's politics today it should come as no suprise that the African National Congress is far and away the most scrutinized (and criticized) political party in South …
Would you sit there and not take your child to the doctor for a vaccine that you knew would save them from disease? Could you sit by and watch your child suffer from illness when all you had to do was get them …
I talked about the carbon market, and others, in the post from April 19 aptly named Markets. There's a pretty big event coming up next week in Cologne: Carbon Expo. This is billed as a "Global Carbon Market Fair …
Even high-profile migrants have got to fit the bill. Australia's immigration services have banned rapper Snoop Dogg from entering the country after he failed a character test. The BBC quotes Immigration Minister, Kevin Andrews, who notes: “He doesn't seem the sort of bloke we want in this …
Thirty-three officials representing four Central Asian states, the European Union, and the UN High Commission on Refugees held a meeting called “Institutional and Capacity-Building Activities to strengthen the Asylum System in Central Asia”.
A stateless person is any person living without state acknowledgement. In underserved outlying areas, these may be children without …
