Archive for the ‘World Affairs: politics and news’ Category
Wednesday, July 4th, 2007
Gaza: Brilliant wonderful news - BBC reporter Alan Johnston has been finally released, after much worry and an agonising, 114 days in captivity.
Read all about it on the BBC
and the Guardian
What will be interesting to see as we get more information - is what role Hamas have played in this ...
Posted in Alan Johston, Gaza Strip, Hamas, Hostage Crisis, Israel-Palestine, Middle East, News & info, UK, World Affairs: politics and news | 3 Comments »
Thursday, June 21st, 2007
I've been meaning to write about this wonderful network - the Women's Learning Partnership (WLP) - before but have been procrastinating.
No time like the present:
In a nutshell, they're about female empowerment as part of human equality, and positive thinking : they're a network of networks - they work with ...
Posted in Bangladeshi Women and Equal Rights to Nationality, Citizenship, Feminism, Global Civil Society, Human Rights, Middle East, Nation-States, Nationality, Patriarchy, Policy, Universality, Women's Learning Partnership, World Affairs: politics and news, knowledge society, society and sociology | 14 Comments »
Thursday, May 17th, 2007
Very strange goings-on.
'Russia' is apparently 'cyber-warring' 'Estonia'!
The Loose Wire writes that Russian hackers have been carrying out denial of service (DDos) attacks on Estonian websites.
The Insights Blog gives us a bit of ..insight!..into the Estonian/Russian background and tensions.
The BBC says Estonia wants to stick this at the top of ...
Posted in Cyberattack, Cyberterrorism, Cyberwar, Denial of Service Attacks, Estonia, Europe, Internet, News & info, Russia, World Affairs: politics and news, war | 10 Comments »
Friday, May 11th, 2007
via Pickled Politics ( thanks Sunny!)
"Prominent journalist and fellow blogger Tasneem Khalil has been arrested by the military police in Bangladesh, a serious attack on press freedom in the country.
An editor and outspoken journalist for the English daily newspaper Daily Star, he also worked for CNN and Human Rights ...
Posted in Activism, Bangladesh, Democracy, Human Rights, Media, Media freedom, Military Rule, Politics, Power, World Affairs: politics and news | 9 Comments »
Thursday, March 8th, 2007
Urgent human rights alert from the Women's Learning Partnership:
"Thirty-four of our colleagues and partners in the Iranian women's movement were arrested on Sunday, March 4 outside of Tehran's Revolutionary Court. They were staging a peaceful protest against the increasing government pressure on civil society activists and, in particular, the ...
Posted in Activism, Campaigns & Petitions, Gender, Human Rights, International Women's Day, News & info, World Affairs: politics and news | 4 Comments »
Thursday, March 1st, 2007
A photography exhibition at St. Paul's Cathedral which documents the ordinary lives and everyday locations caught up in human trafficking and calls for an end to this illegal 21st century trade. The exhibition seeks to expose the reality of trafficking and the action needed to tackle it. Running until the ...
Posted in Activism, Amnesty International, Events, Exhibitions, Human Rights, Human Trafficking, London, News & info, Slavery, UK, UN, World Affairs: politics and news | 2 Comments »
Tuesday, October 3rd, 2006
Good question indeed.
This week’s public lectures at the LSE are asking some hard-hitting questions. This particular lecture is presented by the LSE Cold War Studies Centre as part of the ‘End of the Cold War and Making of a New World Order Lecture Series‘ and delivered by Professor Barry Buzan.
Many ...
Posted in Cold War, Events, Global Politics, International Relations, LSE, London, World Affairs: politics and news | 12 Comments »
Thursday, August 17th, 2006
So the discussion around 'foreign policy' - Ministers saying but of course we wouldn't change our foreign policy just because of some stupid terrorist threat, or what some stupid people suggested has something to do with the threat'. Right - if that's the only reason you were going to ...
Posted in Democracy, Human Rights, International Relations, Irony, Policy, Politics, Social Organization, Terrorism, War on Terror, World Affairs: politics and news, society and sociology, stupidity and violence | 32 Comments »
Tuesday, August 1st, 2006
thought this was a good one: the guy in the corner is former MP and BBC Foreign Affairs correspondent Martin Bell.
from the Guardian's story on people asking Tony to do something about his Lebanon policy. ( okay it seems like everyone who is a former this that or other is ...
Posted in Ceasefire, Israel, Lebanon, News & info, World Affairs: politics and news | 2 Comments »
Tuesday, July 25th, 2006
via Daniels Counter - ( Not in the news! Tel Aviv: Anti War protest)
This was interesting - Daniel highlights the anti-war protests in Israel on Sunday 16th July - which the mainstream media hardly covered. Also on the 21st of July in Haifa.
“This featured in the Israeli papers Haaretz ...
Posted in Israel, Lebanon, Middle East Crisis, News & info, Peace Activism, World Affairs: politics and news | 9 Comments »