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Headlines for November 20, 2024; Colombian Environment Min. Susana Muhamad on Trump, Banning Coal to Israel & Phasing Out Fossil Fuels; The Chase: Democracy Now! Asks Azerbaijani Deputy Foreign Minister–When Will Jailed...Tuesday, November 19, 2024 from Global Issues News Headlines for “Democracy”
UNITED NATIONS, Nov 19 (IPS) - Over the past week, the deployment of the Multinational Security Support Mission (MSS) in Haiti and extended efforts by the Haitian National Police has led to local gangs ramping up their offensives in...Tuesday, November 19, 2024 from Global Issues News Headlines for “Democracy”
BAKU, Nov 19 (IPS) - In the face of a growing climate crisis, the connection between housing and environmental sustainability is becoming increasingly urgent. Read the full story, “Housing for Tomorrow: Sustainable Solutions from Habitat...Tuesday, November 19, 2024 from Global Issues News Headlines for “Democracy”
NEW YORK, Nov 19 (IPS) - Last April, we commemorated the 30th anniversary of the genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda. At the Rwandan capital, Kigali, at United Nations Headquarters, in New York, and across the world, we remembered the...Tuesday, November 19, 2024 from Global Issues News Headlines for “Democracy”
BAKU, Nov 19 (IPS) - The industrial revolution set the ball rolling towards global warming. Today, developing nations are on the frontlines of a climatic carnage and its snowballing effects. Developed nations bear a financial...Tuesday, November 19, 2024 from Democracy Now!
Headlines for November 19, 2024; Daughter of Political Prisoner in Azerbaijan: Gov’t Is Using COP29 as Chance to “Enrich the Regime”; Massive Energy Needs of AI & Cryptocurrencies Lead Amazon, Google & Microsoft...Monday, November 18, 2024 from Global Issues News Headlines for “Democracy”
Nov 18 (IPS) - Content warning: this interview contains details some readers may find distressing. CIVICUS discusses Sudan's civil war and its impact on women with Sulaima Elkhalifa, a Sudanese human rights defender and expert on...Monday, November 18, 2024 from Global Issues News Headlines for “Democracy”
BAKU, Nov 18 (IPS) - "This Finance COP has to deliver. I think this is a crucial moment for the COP process," said Shantal Munro-Knight, Barbados Minister in the Prime Minister's Office. Read the full story, “Rebuilding Trust, Dialogue,...Monday, November 18, 2024 from Global Issues News Headlines for “Democracy”
UNITED NATIONS, Nov 18 (IPS) - A new report from Human Rights Watch (HRW) postulates that Israeli military practices in the Gaza Strip constitutes as war crimes. Released on November 14, the new report details the scale of destruction in...Monday, November 18, 2024 from Democracy Now!
Headlines for November 18, 2024; Live from COP29: Climate Justice Activists Demand Action as Trump’s Return Looms Over U.N. Summit; “The Finance COP ”: Activists at U.N. Climate Talks Push Rich Countries to Pay for...Monday, November 18, 2024 from Global Issues News Headlines for “Democracy”
BAKU, Nov 18 (IPS) - At a time when the COP29 summit is primarily focused on climate finance as a tool to cool catastrophically high global temperatures and reverse consequences for all life on earth, delegates—alarmed and concerned by...Sunday, November 17, 2024 from Global Issues News Headlines for “Democracy”
BAKU, Nov 17 (IPS) - "We cannot rely on capitalistic logic to serve our fight for liberation. More investments will not build houses after floods because it's not profitable. Corporations will not overthrow the industrial-agricultural...Sunday, November 17, 2024 from Global Issues News Headlines for “Democracy”
BAKU, Nov 17 (IPS) - As the world grapples with ongoing armed conflicts, from Ukraine to Gaza, advocacy for a more proactive approach to understanding and effectively responding to the needs of children affected by both armed conflict...Friday, November 15, 2024 from Democracy Now!
Headlines for November 15, 2024; “He Will Make America Sick”: Trump Picks Vaccine Skeptic Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to Head HHS ; A New Crusade? Trump Taps Christian Nationalists Pete Hegseth & Mike Huckabee to Top Posts;...Thursday, November 14, 2024 from Democracy Now!
Headlines for November 14, 2024; Trump Picks Far-Right Loyalist Matt Gaetz to Be AG as He Moves to Weaponize DOJ Against “Enemies”; Report from Gaza: Palestinians Feel They Are Being “Slowly Exterminated” in...Wednesday, November 13, 2024 from Democracy Now!
Headlines for November 13, 2024; ACLU Attorney Lee Gelernt on How Rights Groups Are Preparing to Fight Trump’s Mass Deportations; Immigrant Activist to Biden: Close Deportation Cases Now to Take a Weapon Away from Trump; Trump Taps...Tuesday, November 12, 2024 from Democracy Now!
Headlines for November 12, 2024; “Hatemonger”: Stephen Miller to Hold Key Post as Trump Pushes Mass Detention & Deportation; As Private Prison Stocks Soar, Immigrant Rights Activists Vow to Fight Trump’s Mass...Monday, November 11, 2024 from Democracy Now!
Headlines for November 11, 2024; “Hate Has No Place Here”: Black Americans Slam Racist Texts Promoting Slavery After Trump’s Election; “America & the War on Palestine”: Palestinian Scholar Noura Erakat,...Friday, November 8, 2024 from Democracy Now!
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Headlines for November 07, 2024; Robin D. G. Kelley on Trump’s Election Win: “We Can’t Keep Relying on the Democratic Party”; Fatima Bhutto: Kamala Harris’s Support for Israel’s Genocide in Gaza Is a...Wednesday, November 6, 2024 from Democracy Now! Video
Headlines for November 06, 2024; “The Confederacy Won”: Why Donald Trump’s Reelection Is a Win for White Supremacy, Xenophobia & Hate; “This Is a Collapse of the Democratic Party”: Ralph Nader on Roots...Tuesday, November 5, 2024 from Democracy Now! Video
Headlines for November 05, 2024; Juan González: Sitting Out This Election Would Be a Mistake, Just as It Was in 1968; 2020 Redux? Army of MAGA Election Officials Prepare to Challenge Results If Trump Loses; Trump Tried to Steal the Vote...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
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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...