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LONDON, Dec 20 (IPS) - Democracy is alive and well in South Korea. When President Yoon Suk Yeol tried to impose martial law, the public and parliamentarians united to defend it. Now Yoon must face justice for his power grab. Read the...Friday, December 20, 2024 from Global Issues News Headlines for “Democracy”
NEW YORK, Dec 20 (IPS) - As 2024 comes to a close, I dare to say that this has been an especially gruesome year for millions upon millions of young children, their parents and their teachers. The world has witnessed one horrific crisis...Friday, December 20, 2024 from Global Issues News Headlines for “Democracy”
MADRID, Dec 20 (IPS) - Perhaps demographers would consider designing a new classification system to separate from their estimates of the world’s total population—eight billion plus—the billion humans who live without legal identity and,...Friday, December 20, 2024 from Global Issues News Headlines for “Democracy”
UNITED NATIONS, Dec 20 (IPS) - In overthrowing Bashar al-Assad and his regime, Syria reaches the process of re-affirming its sovereignty, a process that the United Nations chief asserts must be led by the Syrian people. Read the full...Friday, December 20, 2024 from Global Issues News Headlines for “Democracy”
COTONOU, Benin, Dec 20 (IPS) - Construction of the new Museum of Modern Art is underway in Cotonou, Benin’s largest city. The museum, along with three others being built throughout the country, are part of the Beninese government’s...Friday, December 20, 2024 from Global Issues News Headlines for “Democracy”
UNITED NATIONS, Dec 20 (IPS) - The United States, long described as a country built largely by immigrants, is planning to clamp down on migrants, refugees and asylum seekers entering the country—which averaged about 2.4 million in...Friday, December 20, 2024 from Democracy Now!
Headlines for December 20, 2024; Amazon Workers Launch Historic Strike to Demand New Contracts & End Unsafe Labor Practices; UnitedHealth vs. Patients: NYC Man’s Battle to Get Lifesaving Drug Highlights Broken Health System;...Thursday, December 19, 2024 from Global Issues News Headlines for “Democracy”
UNITED NATIONS, Dec 19 (IPS) - The fall of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad came about following a series of coordinated offensive missions spearheaded by the Syrian opposition which resulted in the seizure of the capital city Damascus....Thursday, December 19, 2024 from Global Issues News Headlines for “Democracy”
WINDHOEK, Dec 19 (IPS) - Nature is at a tipping point. With human activity having pushed up to 1 million plant and animal species close to extinction, securing sustainable development and halting global biodiversity collapse is no longer...Thursday, December 19, 2024 from Democracy Now!
Headlines for December 19, 2024; Mass Graves Discovered as Syrian Families Seek Answers to Loved Ones’ Disappearances Under Assad Regime; “Extermination & Acts of Genocide”: Human Rights Watch on Israel Deliberately...Wednesday, December 18, 2024 from Global Issues News Headlines for “Democracy”
Dec 18 (IPS) - In May 2024, Togo's President Faure Gnassingbé signed a new constitution, transitioning the country from a presidential to a parliamentary system. Under this new framework, lawmakers are responsible for electing the...Wednesday, December 18, 2024 from Global Issues News Headlines for “Democracy”
BULAWAYO, Dec 18 (IPS) - As the population in African cities grows, governments are struggling to provide sustainable public transport solutions, conditions that have led to gridlock in major business districts. Read the full story,...Wednesday, December 18, 2024 from Democracy Now! Video
Headlines for December 18, 2024; “Obey the Law”: Palestinians Sue State Dept., Saying Arms Sales to Israel Violate U.S. Human Rights Law; Justice for Ayşenur Eygi: Family of U.S. Citizen Killed by Israel Meets with Blinken...Tuesday, December 17, 2024 from Democracy Now!
Headlines for December 17, 2024; “It Broke Him”: Mother Who Lost Son in “Kids for Cash” Scheme Slams Biden’s Clemency for Corrupt Judge; Astra Taylor: “It’s Still Not Too Late for Biden to...Monday, December 16, 2024 from Democracy Now!
Headlines for December 16, 2024; “Lawless”: Marwan Bishara on Israel Bombing Syria 800 Times & Expanding Occupation of Golan Heights; South Korea Impeaches President as Demands Grow for Democratic Reforms; Reporter Ken...Friday, December 13, 2024 from Democracy Now! Video
Headlines for December 13, 2024; Report from Damascus: Relief Mixed with Sadness. Syrians Search for Loved Ones in Prisons & Morgues; Fasting for Her Son’s Freedom, Mother of Jailed British Egyptian Activist Demands U.K....Thursday, December 12, 2024 from Democracy Now!
Headlines for December 12, 2024; After Fall of Assad, “Struggle from Below” Needed to Build a Free & Democratic Syria; Another Winter of War: NRC Head Jan Egeland on Visiting Ukraine & Latest on Sudan, Gaza and Syria;...Wednesday, December 11, 2024 from Democracy Now! Video
Headlines for December 11, 2024; Rep. Delia Ramirez: Trump’s Immigration Plans Are “Un-American, Unconstitutional & Undemocratic”; “Indefensible”: U.S. Continues Deporting Haitians Amid Political...Tuesday, December 10, 2024 from Democracy Now!
Headlines for December 10, 2024; “Politics Is Finally Possible”: After Surprise Fall of Assad in Protracted Civil War, What’s Next?; “Unleashed”: Report Details How Israeli Soldiers Brutalize West Bank...Tuesday, December 10, 2024 from Democracy Now! Video
Part 2 of our interview on how many responded to the murder of UnitedHealthcare executive Brian Thompson, by offering condolences while also expressing outrage over the state of healthcare in the United States with more than 100 million...Monday, December 9, 2024 from Democracy Now! Video
Headlines for December 09, 2024; “Assad Is Gone”: Writer Yassin al-Haj Saleh on Syria, His 16 Years in Prison & Wife’s Disappearance; Syrians Are Celebrating Fall of Assad, Even as “the Bigger Picture Is...Friday, December 6, 2024 from Democracy Now! Video
Headlines for December 06, 2024; Amnesty International: Israel Is Committing Genocide in Gaza with Full U.S. Support; “All That Remains”: As Gaza Faces Child Amputee Crisis, New Film Tells Story of 13-Year-Old Leyan;...Monday, July 29, 2024 from Democracy & Freedom Watch
The three lawsuits filed in the Constitutional Court of Georgia on the Law on “Transparency of Foreign Influence” will be combined into one proceeding, CCG Chairman Merab Turava said to the journalist on Monday, adding...Thursday, April 25, 2024 from Democracy & Freedom Watch
Tbilisi, DFWatch-Over a hundred non-governmental and media organizations declare their open disobedience to the foreign influence draft law initiated by the Georgian authorities and suspend all cooperation with the government...Wednesday, April 3, 2024 from Democracy & Freedom Watch
Georgian government, after a one-year forced pause and in the face of criticism both inside and outside the country, re-initiated the bill on “Agents of Foreign Influence”. The new initiative, titled as the draft law on...Friday, March 15, 2024 from Democracy & Freedom Watch
TBILISI, DFWatch–A woman from Moscow Oblast, who caused great anger among Vladimir Putin supporters by kicking out a Russian soldier fighting against Ukraine from her coffee shop, has moved to Tbilisi with only ‘two bags’, leaving...Friday, March 1, 2024 from Democracy & Freedom Watch
TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgian Dream is in the process of preparing a legislative initiative to “protect society from pseudo-liberal ideology” and its inevitable harmful consequences.” The country may face such a...Tuesday, February 20, 2024 from Democracy & Freedom Watch
TBILISI, DFWatch–The court of the “Donetsk People’s Republic” has sentenced a Georgian fighter Mamuka Gatserelia to life imprisonment for killing three Russian infantrymen, the General Prosecutor’s Office of...Wednesday, February 14, 2024 from Democracy & Freedom Watch
TBILISI, DFWatch–Russian President Vladimir Putin has suggested his country might exchange American journalist Evan Gershkovich for a Russian assassin jailed in Germany. Speaking to former Fox News host Tucker Carlson in a...Monday, January 29, 2024 from Democracy & Freedom Watch
TBILISI, DFWatch–After Georgian Dream founder Bidzina Ivanishvili returned to public politics in late December, everyone in Georgia expected major upheavals in the government, although only a small number of commentators predicted...Tuesday, January 23, 2024 from Democracy & Freedom Watch
TBILISI, DFWatch–More than 700 people were detained on charges of crossing the de facto border between Abkhazia and Georgia in 2023, states security service of the breakaway Abkhazia. Most of them were punished administratively, and...Monday, January 22, 2024 from Democracy & Freedom Watch
TBILISI, DFWatch–Dutch low-cost airline, Transavia, is starting to operate in the Georgian market. Tickets can currently be purchased on the company’s website for flights from late April. During the summer navigation season of...Wednesday, December 18, 2019 from openDemocracy -
The IMF is backing a tax reform bill in Ecuador that will enable capital flight and further austerity.Wednesday, December 18, 2019 from openDemocracy -
Policies in practice are rarely the same as they are on paper. The IOM would do well to remember that.Tuesday, December 17, 2019 from openDemocracy -
Why are Syrian documentaries detached from the Syrian audience?Tuesday, December 17, 2019 from openDemocracy -
Seven years ago, Georgian Dream swept to power on the promise of ending systemic police violence. They have failed.Tuesday, December 17, 2019 from openDemocracy -
The goal set by the national government is that by 2023 the use of mercury in Colombia will be completely stopped. The protective action initiated by indigenous communities could be a useful tool to follow this up. EspañolTuesday, December 17, 2019 from openDemocracy -
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro’s administration is embarking on a project of cultural and historical revision.Tuesday, December 17, 2019 from openDemocracy -
AIDAN, Betsy DeVos’ proposed chatbot, signals that the Department of Education remains open for business.Tuesday, December 17, 2019 from openDemocracy -
“Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business. Charity, mercy, forbearance and benevolence were all my business.”Tuesday, December 17, 2019 from openDemocracy -
Labour Party’s abject failure to address anti-Semitism has garnered headlines, but hatred of Muslims is even more rampant in Britain—and the prime minister and his party have contributed to making it socially acceptable.Monday, December 16, 2019 from openDemocracy -
Emel Mathlouthi’s new album is the soundtrack of the apocalypse.Tuesday, May 31, 2016 from BBC Democracy Live - Home
Latest live coverage of the UK's parliaments and assembliesFriday, May 27, 2016 from Democracy Now! Blog
Extended interview with Setsuko Thurlow, who survived the Hiroshima atomic bombing, about the bombing of 1945 and her push to eliminate nuclear weapons. On August 6, 1945, Thurlow was at school in Hiroshima when the U.S. dropped the...Friday, May 27, 2016 from Democracy Now! Blog
Holocaust survivor and peace activist Hedy Epstein has died at the age of 91. Epstein was born in Germany and left in 1939 on a Kindertransport to England. Her parents died in Auschwitz. She later returned to Germany to work as a...Thursday, May 26, 2016 from Democracy Now! Blog
By Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan Thursday, Jan. 28, was a cold morning in Durham, North Carolina. Wildin David Guillen Acosta went outside to head to school, but never made it. He was thrown to the ground and arrested by agents from...Wednesday, May 25, 2016 from Democracy Now! Blog
Amy Goodman appears on the PBS show MetroFocus and breaks down all that is wrong with the media’s coverage of Election 2016. Watch the Full InterviewTuesday, May 24, 2016 from Democracy Now! Blog
NPR's Scott Simon asks Amy Goodman about Bernie Sanders' chances of getting the delegates he needs to claim the Democratic nomination. Download MP3 || Read the transcriptThursday, May 19, 2016 from Democracy Now! Blog
By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan “Welcome to Fort McMurray. We have the energy,” reads the signs as one enters this northern deep-woods outpost at the center of the Alberta tar sands petroleum-extraction zone. The forests surrounding...Monday, May 16, 2016 from Democracy Now! Blog
In Part 2 of our wide-ranging conversation with the world-renowned dissident Noam Chomsky, we talk about the conflict in Syria, the rise of ISIS , Saudi Arabia, the political crisis in Brazil, the passing of the pioneering lawyer Michael...