Full Coverage: Politics

28.02.2006 Stop Climate Chaos campaign group will urge the UK Government to take urgent and effective action on climate change when they meet with the Prime Minister, Tony Blair, and an exceptional line-up of other cabinet ministers including the Chancellor, Gordon Brown today.

24.02.2006 Bolivia's new president is pushing for a new body politic that would ensure the representation of the country's two-thirds majority indigenous population. A minimum of one-third of the seats would be held by women too.

24.02.2006 In Europe, Africa, and South America, women have just taken top posts. But the bigger picture is not so rosy for women, which is surprising, because studies show that when women hold power the quality of governance rises, corruption sinks, and citizens are better represented.

24.02.2006 SAN FRANCISCO, Feb 24 (OneWorld) - Three Nobel laureates are throwing their weight behind an international coalition in demanding the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq and calling on the public to protest the occupation by taking part in nonviolent lawbreaking at U.S. military bases.

22.02.2006 Refugees International is not mincing words. President Bush requested $514 million for peacekeeping and other programs in Sudan and they're calling on Congress to put up the bucks...but they need your help to close the deal.

21.02.2006 SAN FRANCISCO, Feb 21 (OneWorld) - Media reform groups are calling for a deeper investigation of Bush administration advertising and propaganda efforts following the release of a report that concludes the White House has spun a web of public relations (PR) contracts larger than previously thought.

21.02.2006 The UK Government is putting out two White Papers on international development for consultation until 7 April.

21.02.2006 Britain could lose its ability to impose environmental taxes, restrictions and safeguards on airlines under a draft treaty between the EU and US which curtails the power of national governments.

20.02.2006 NEW YORK, Feb 20 (OneWorld) - Celebrations of Rene Preval's election as Haiti's new president could prove short-lived in the face of political restlessness and doubts about whether the international community will help heal poverty's open sores in the western hemisphere's poorest and most unequal society, analysts have warned.

17.02.2006 "Don’t complain, get up and change it." Ashtar Theatre director Iman Aoun, otherwise known as the ‘joker’, is inspiring groups in Ramalla and Jerusalem to act out their political views and thoughts, and to come up with alternative laws underlying the issues to submit to the government.

17.02.2006 Nepal’s violent armed conflict between Maoist rebels and the government has been placing the civilian population in grave danger, said a report released on Thursday by the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OCHCR) in Nepal.

16.02.2006 The opposition in Bangladesh has staged a national strike demanding a 24-hour power supply and lower prices for food and fuel. Schools and businesses closed for the day. The authorities deployed thousands of security troops, but there were no serious clashes.

15.02.2006 Costa Rica is a small Central American country of four million people that - unlike its neighbors El Salvador, Guatemala, and Nicaragua during their bloody civil wars - has never attracted much attention in the United States, except as a destination for tourists and retirees. But last Sunday's election there should serve as another wake-up call for Washington.

15.02.2006 China, Nepal and India must increase efforts to break the smuggling networks involved in the international illegal trade of tiger and leopard skins says leading members of the European Parliament.

15.02.2006 New legislation is said to "transcend political differences by offering a sound approach to reducing the number of unintended pregnancies and abortions among women in the developing world," and has drawn the support of a leading advocacy group.

15.02.2006 Governments are failing to take the necessary action to ensure delivery of the Kyoto Protocol one year after the global treaty came into force to cut greenhouse gas emissions.

14.02.2006 WASHINGTON, D.C., Feb 14 (OneWorld) - They went to sleep as Syrians and woke up stripped of their citizenship and their rights to study, work, or marry as they wish.

14.02.2006 Le Conseil des Canadiens exhorte le gouvernement fédéral à prendre des mesures pour permettre aux opposant(e)s américains à la guerre de demeurer au Canada. Le Conseil des Canadiens organise aussi un événement public pour le 2 février prochain, en collaboration avec le Congrès du Travail du Canada et la Campagne d’appui aux objecteurs de conscience afin de sensibiliser le public canadien à cette question.

14.02.2006 The Iraqi government called for an immediate investigation by the British Ministry of Defence following the release of video footage on Sunday showing UK soldiers beating Iraqi teenagers.

14.02.2006 Without a dramatic change, energy scarcity—with its wars and high prices—will define the coming era, says Michael T. Klare.