Full Coverage: Politics

30.04.2004 The government has published details of its amendments to the Asylum and Immigration Bill including the rights to appeal a decision by an immigration tribunal.

29.04.2004 A series of attacks on Buddhist temples and the intimidation of monks in Parliament, allegedly by a ruling hardline leftist party in Sri Lanka, has sparked fears among the monks, who entered the political arena in this month's elections.

29.04.2004 Since last year, around 80 percent of Bangladesh's population has had access to negligible health services because the government suspended the salaries of 80,000 health and family planning workers and the supply of drugs to healthcare centers in villages.

28.04.2004 Tony Blair's efforts to reassure voters that his government has a firm grip on immigration prompted Conservative complaints that he is in a "blind panic" on an issue that could influence the next general election.

27.04.2004 Il y a vingt ans, les membres du Comité national de santé et de sécurité du SCFP recommandaient la création d’une journée nationale dédiée à la mémoire de celles et ceux qui ont été tués ou blessés au travail. Aujourd’hui, le 28 avril est reconnu dans le monde entier comme le Jour de deuil international pour les travailleuses et les travailleurs qui ont été tués ou blessés au travail. Notre but, c’est d’éliminer la nécessité d’une telle journée.

27.04.2004 Le Rassemblement Démocratique Populaire (RDP) a organisé, ce 26 avril, un sit-in en face du bâtiment logeant le Ministère de la Justice et de la Sécurité Publique, afin de marquer la Journée nationale de lutte contre la répression.

27.04.2004 A presença ou não da participação do estado na economia se arrasta há mais de dois séculos, desde os tempos em que os economistas franceses fisiocratas seguidos dos seus colegas ingleses, particularmente Adam Smith e David Ricardo, enalteceram os empreendedores privados e condenaram o intervencionismo estatal, aplicado pelas monarquias mercantilistas européias.
Em: CIARI

27.04.2004 Life in the highrise jungle of urban post-communism is not for the fainthearted. New Internationalist's Richard Swift takes the measure of a new capitalism – that’s all shock and no therapy.

27.04.2004 As South Africa celebrates 10 years of democracy with grand festivities and speeches by everyone from Nelson Mandela to Tony Blair - it also marks the continent's progress on the path toward political freedom.

27.04.2004 After its defeat in the March 21 presidential elections, the leftist Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) is in turmoil over demands that the leadership resign after its poor performance in the elections.

26.04.2004 In a flagrant violation of human rights and Constitutional guidelines, last week the Bangladesh government arrested nearly 15,000 people in the capital Dhaka, in a bid to foil an agitation by the country's opposition party.

23.04.2004 Political parties in Sri Lanka are wary of a civil society initiative to end their practice of sending outsiders to Parliament after election victories.

23.04.2004 Wiltshire County Council has become the latest local authority in Britain to go GM free. All six county councils in the South West region have now passed policies opposing GM crops. The news coincides with a Friends of the Earth campaign, launched on 22 April in Brussels, calling for new EU rules to allow local and regional authorities to ban GM crops from their areas.

23.04.2004 A scheme in Glasgow, financed by the European Social Fund, has been training asylum seekers as Citizens Advice Bureau advisors whilst decisions are made on their claims.

21.04.2004 Imagine um país cujo governo se diz "revolucionário" e cuja oposição de direita o acusa de "comunista". Um país que está reforçando os vínculos com Cuba. Agora imagine que esse mesmo país mantém uma das piores distribuições de renda do mundo, continua fielmente pagando os serviços da dívida externa e mantendo e ampliando contratos de longo prazo com as multinacionais. Esse país é a Venezuela.

21.04.2004 The Nepal media's involvement in pro-democracy agitations by political parties and subsequent police arrests has stirred a controversy in the volatile Himalayan kingdom, where the fine line between politics and the Fourth Estate seems to have blurred.

21.04.2004 Early Day Motion 333 – which asks the British government to freeze military assistance to Colombia – has just under 200 cross-party signatures, ranking it 12th highest out of 1061 motions. It is above almost every other foreign policy issue including opposition to the Iraq war as well as being higher than the alternatives to tuition top-up fees motion. War on Want asked some of the signatories why they signed.

20.04.2004 The Inkatha Freedom Party will contest the results of the election after the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) failed to investigate 42 complaints of violence and intimidation lodged by the party, and declared the poll free and fair. The party claims that irregularities occurred in both national and provincial elections, but mainly in its stronghold of KwaZulu-Natal.

15.04.2004 Thabo Mbeki's African National Congress (ANC) is poised to win the National and provincial general elections in South Africa with over 68% of the total votes counted so far.

15.04.2004 Did the groundbreaking Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), whose work followed the 1994 election, successfully heal the wounds of earlier decades in South Africa? Helena Cobban analyses South Africa's progress over the last ten years.