CAPE TOWN, Sep 24 (IPS) – With South Africa being the only African country
with a seat on the Group of 20 (G20), while serving as co-chair
of the working group on reforming the International Monetary
Fund, it has "a moral obligation towards the continent to
call for more responsible management of the global financial
system".
UNITED NATIONS, Sep 23 (IPS) – Libyan leader Muammar el-Qaddafi, in his maiden
visit to the United Nations Wednesday, made a highly predictable
speech – long on rhetoric and short on substance.
UNITED NATIONS, Sep 23 (IPS) – Is the United States willing to give up its role as
the world's most powerful cop? The message delivered by U.S.
President Barack Obama to the U.N. General Assembly suggests that
it's quite likely.
NEW YORK, Sep 23 (IPS) – Women’s voices remain highly underrepresented
in the climate change debate, say international civil society
leaders attending events taking place around the United Nations
Climate Summit Tuesday.
BERLIN, Sep 23 (IPS) – A new report on Measurement of Economic Performance
and Social Progress
presented earlier this month in Paris by
Nobel prize winners Joseph Stiglitz and
Amartya Sen is a late,
and quite modest contribution to an old debate, many
experts say.
WASHINGTON, Sep 25 (IPS) – Eight months after Barack Obama launched his
presidency by promising a speedy push for Palestinian-Israeli
peace, that effort has stalled badly. And there are now growing
fears that the top levels of Obama’s peace team are torn by
internal disagreements that may undermine the whole peace effort.
EAST JERUSALEM, Sep 25 (IPS) – Almost a year ago a barely noticed event took place
in Sawarha, a Palestinian
neighbourhood in the Israeli-occupied
part of the city.
BI’ILIN, West Bank, Sep 24 (IPS) – Eight children between the ages of 10 and 17 were
arrested and detained by
Israeli soldiers during military raids
Monday night and Tuesday morning in the
northern West Bank
cities Nablus and Qalqilia.
UNITED NATIONS, Sep 23 (IPS) – Libyan leader Muammar el-Qaddafi, in his maiden
visit to the United Nations Wednesday, made a highly predictable
speech – long on rhetoric and short on substance.
WASHINGTON, Sep 23 (IPS) – While Israeli officials claimed a major win in U.S.
President Barack Obama’s decision to shelve his long-held
demand for a freeze on Israeli settlements on the West Bank and
East Jerusalem, some analysts here believe it may yet prove a
Pyrrhic victory for the hard-line government of Prime Minister
Binyamin Netanyahu.