Full Coverage: Politics

30.11.2006 Finnish human rights groups say that European Union leaders failed to raise human violations in Russia effectively enough at their meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin here last week.

28.11.2006 Lula foi reeleito presidente do Brasil com 58,29 milhões de votos. Dos 125 milhões de eleitores, numa população de 185 milhões de pessoas, 60,83% decidiram reconduzir à Presidência da República, por mais quatro anos, o líder sindical fundador do Partido dos Trabalhadores (PT).

25.11.2006 It has been almost 13 years since President Bill Clinton played the saxophone given to him by then President of Czechoslovakia Vaclav Havel, at the stage of the Reduta Jazz Club in Prague. The two presidents shared the stage once again last Wednesday, this time at the Alfred Lerner Hall of Columbia University in New York, where they had an hour long public discussion titled Challenges of New Democracies.

24.11.2006 The Parliamentary Sub-Commission for Juveniles and Equal Opportunities in cooperation with the Children's Human Rights Centre of Albania – CRCA, organised on November 21.2006, an open public hearing on children's rights situation in the country. CRCA was supported for this activity by Olof Palme International Center and SIDA Sweden.

20.11.2006 UNITED NATIONS, Nov 20 (OneWorld) - There are signs that key U.S. officials are ready to take on global warming, even as much of the world community failed to show its will to deal with the impending threat at a recent global conference.

17.11.2006 Climate change could get tackled seriously at last. At today's press briefing by the Climate Action Network at the Nairobi Climate Summit, Jeremy Symons reported that three Democratic Chairs of the US Senate have written to President Bush to signal a total reversal of policy on global warming. Hear this historic news yourself by going to OneClimate island's Virtual Nairobi press conference - you can travel there carbon-free, by downloading Second Life.

14.11.2006 SAN FRANCISCO, Nov 14 (OneWorld) - Voters in Michigan gave 58 percent approval to a measure banning Affirmative Action in the public sector last week. It was just one in a series of a measures voters approved nationwide that many activists see as a setback to racial justice.

10.11.2006 Region’s Catholic Church divided over Chávez

07.11.2006 Esta semana os termos dos contratos já começaram a ser discutidos no Congresso Boliviano – que é quem vai aprová-lo - e para os analistas este vai ser o momento de melhor compreender “as letras pequenas”. A novidade é que estes contratos firmados na última segunda-feira não têm cláusulas de confidencialidade como havia nos anteriores.

06.11.2006 WASHINGTON, Nov 6 (OneWorld) - Voters nationwide who confront problems at the polling station Tuesday will have a new way to get help and take part in what many analysts and activists have warned will be a close-fought and tricky election.