Full Coverage: Politics

30.06.2005 Dans le cadre de la XXXVe Assemblée générale de l’Organisation des États américains (OEA), qui a commencé aujourd’hui à Ft. Lauderdale, aux États-Unis, la Coalition internationale des organisations pour les droits humains dans les Amériques a adressé aux pays membres de l’OEA une série de recommandations sur des questions prioritaires touchant les droits humains. Dans la déclaration qu’elle a émise, la Coalition a signalé que la faiblesse des institutions démocratiques ainsi que l’exclusion et les inégalités sociales contribuent grandement à la fragilité de la démocratie dans les Amériques.

30.06.2005 L’adoption de la Loi C-38, qui accorde le droit au mariage à tous les gays et lesbiennes du Canada, est une victoire pour les droits de la personne, selon le Syndicat canadien de la fonction publique (SCFP). « C’est une victoire pour les droits de la personne dans l’ensemble du Canada, un pas en avant pour les droits égaux des gays et des lesbiennes de tout le pays », affirme le président national du SCFP, Paul Moist, au sujet de l’adoption hier du projet de loi C-38 par les députés du Parlement.

30.06.2005 Tuesday's Senate passage of the Energy Bill made some progress in setting renewable energy targets, but overall has failed to take any meaningful action to move the U.S. away from its reliance on oil, say energy policy analysts Jeff Rickert and Brian Siu.

30.06.2005 With wrangling over its membership resolved, Iraq’s constitutional committee is forging ahead with drafting a new basic law.

29.06.2005 Since Sunday 19 the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN) has been on general red alert with EZLN troops called into the mountains of Chiapas, and Zapatista communities advised to flee by their Juntas de Buen Gobierno (Governing Councils), amid fears that war in Chiapas is likely to resume. The Zapatista "Caracoles" or "centers of zapatista autonomy" have also been closed [Pics of the Caracoles La Garrucha and Morelia]

29.06.2005 Le porte-parole de l'EZLN a déclaré, par voie de communiqué, l' « alerte rouge générale » , entrée en vigueur le 19 juin, dans les territorios rebeldes chiapanèques.

29.06.2005 American Indians and Alaska Natives have the highest youth suicide rates in the nation, and in some areas Native American young people are more than ten times as likely to commit suicide than their white counterparts. Many hope that the U.S. Senate's newfound attention to the issue will generate awareness and funding for prevention and education programs.

29.06.2005 "Real news is the news you and I need to keep our freedoms," correspondent and historian Richard Reeves once told a student. Public broadcasting's number one news anchor, Bill Moyers, stands up to those who, with metallic flags on their lapels, are attempting to muzzle the few in American society who are reporting the news rather than the spin.

29.06.2005 A new report by the Brookings Institution shows President Bush has significantly exaggerated the amount of aid his administration has provided to sub-Saharan Africa. With the approaching G8 summit and recent aid commitments made by E.U. nations, Bush is facing increasing pressure to be more cooperative internationally and encourage the efforts of poor countries.

27.06.2005 Renewable energy experts presented the latest products and advances in the alternative energy industry during the Eighth Annual Congressional Expo last week. How much funding will finally emerge for all these forms of renewable energy is still uncertain as the House and Senate must work through the summer to agree on contentious energy legislation.

27.06.2005 A Congressional vote on CAFTA is likely this week. Don't let the mistakes we've learned from NAFTA be repeated with CAFTA, says Global Exchange, offering eight easy ways you can declare independence from trade agreements that profit corporations and marginalize working families.

27.06.2005 (OTTAWA) - Paul Moist, président national du SCFP, est heureux que le ministre fédéral de la Santé ait reconnu la menace que représentent les cliniques privées pour le système public de soins de santé.

27.06.2005 Gross human rights abusers will continue to get their hands on weapons as G8 foreign ministers fail to commit to negiotiate a tough Arms Trade Treaty. G8 countries together export more than 80% of the world’s arms.

27.06.2005 Tehran mayor and president-elect Mahmoud Ahmadinejad vowed Sunday to spread Iran's oil money to the poor, end corruption, return to the roots of the 1979 Islamic revolution, and push Iran's nuclear-energy plans. He's been called Iran's Robin Hood by some, but critics portend a Talibanesque regime now that hard-line conservatives hold power throughout the government.

24.06.2005 African and international NGOs have issued a joint appeal to the UN and the African Union (AU) to put the crisis in Zimbabwe on the agenda of the upcoming AU Assembly, scheduled to take place in Libya July 4-5. Since last month, Zimbabwe's government has engaged in the ruthless destruction of homes and businesses in the capital, Harare, that has left at least 200,000 without shelter.

24.06.2005 The PATRIOT Act became law a month after 9/11, giving the government sweeping surveillance powers and largely disregarding many civil liberties previously taken for granted. Repeatedly challenged as unconstitutional, several provisions are set to expire this year, but Congress may reauthorize and even expand the PATRIOT Act.

24.06.2005 In the United States on July 4th, Americans celebrate independence from King George's imperialistic British rule. This year, Code Pink asks you to observe your spirit of patriotism in a different way--wave your flag for liberty and freedom from "George W's empire-building that drags us into imperial wars, wreaks havoc on foreign lands, callously takes the lives of our soldiers, and treats the prisoners of these wars as subhumans."

23.06.2005 OTTAWA — L’Institut Nord-Sud et la Fédération mondiale des associations pour les Nations Unies (FMANU) ont publié aujourd’hui le 4e rapport annuel sur l’engagement de la société civile en faveur des Objectifs de développement du millénaire. L’Institut se joint ainsi aux nombreux participants du Canada et de par le monde qui répondent à l’appel lancé pour lutter contre la pauvreté.

23.06.2005 Organisée par Solidarité sans frontières, un réseau montréalais de comités autonomes de migrant-es, de réfugié-es, d’immigrant-es et d'allié-es, la marche Personne n'est illégal! sur Ottawa a lieu du du 19 au 25 juin 2005.

23.06.2005 A Senate Republican report calls on President Bush to reassess financial support for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), alleging the funds are used to lobby against U.S. interests. ICRC's president said the senators simply want to discredit the organization after the Red Cross exposed widespread prisoner abuse.