Archive for the ‘World Affairs: politics and news’ Category

Alan Johnston is released!

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 ...

Womens Learning Partnership: for Rights, Development and Peace

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 ...

Cyberwar?!

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 ...

BREAKING NEWS: Tasneem Khalil arrested by Military Police in Bangladesh

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 ...

Iranian Women Activists Jailed

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 ...

SLAVE BRITAIN: twenty first century trade in human lives

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 ...

Will the Global War on Terrorism be the New Cold War?

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 ...

Thoughts - on ‘foreign policy’, terrorists, and power..

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 ...

Ceasefire Now!

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 ...

The Tel Aviv Protests in favour of Peace

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 ...