Full Coverage: Geopolitics

30.03.2006 As the polycentric sixth World Social Forum (WSF) drew to a close in Pakistan's principal port city, on Wednesday, participants were left wondering what kind of impact it would have on the military dictatorship that hosted the five-day event.

30.03.2006 U.S. aid to developing countries leapt to nearly $28 billion last year from under $20 billion in 2004 and barely $11 billion in 2001--a fairly staggering jump. But take Iraq and Afghanistan out of the equation and the story is quite different.

30.03.2006 Despite being the most populous developing country and in the middle of an enormous urbanization process, China contributed very little to the forum billed as the counterbalance to those of the economic elites.

30.03.2006 Nearly three years after declaring the end of the war President Bush is still denying the obvious reality, says Council for a Livable World. So they've assembled a series of quotes from the Iraq War and the Vietnam War for a side by side comparison; check out the similarities and pass them along to a friend!

28.03.2006 23-year-old American peace activist Rachel Corrie was crushed by an Israeli bulldozer aiming for a Palestinian home on March 16, 2003. Her powerful emails and journal entries have been transformed into a one-woman play, but political pressure might keep it from ever reaching a U.S. stage.

28.03.2006 WASHINGTON, D.C., Mar 27 (OneWorld) - Arab leaders must press Sudan's government to let the United Nations take charge of peacekeeping in Darfur, the oil-rich country's war-wrecked western region, Arab and Western human rights advocates said in advance of regional talks starting Tuesday.

28.03.2006 The United States' recent human rights record could make it difficult for the self-styled leader of the free world to get elected by its peers to sit on the new UN Human Rights Council.

27.03.2006 Nigeria has announced that Liberian officials are now "free to take" former warlord-turned-president Charles Taylor, but it's in Sierra Leone that he's really wanted--to face charges of crimes against humanity.

25.03.2006 WASHINGTON, D.C., Mar 24 (OneWorld) - UN peacekeepers serve the national interest at a fraction of the cost of direct U.S. military intervention overseas, according to advocates pressing Congress to fund America's full share of the blue helmets' budget.

24.03.2006 Developing-country negotiators are trying to make sure their people are properly compensated for plants and other natural products taken from their territory by international corporations, but they've largely been stonewalled at a global conference on biodiversity in Brazil this week.

23.03.2006 Best Stories from Visa Queues, a collection of stories published by the Citizens’ Pact for the SEE, will be presented to the Members of the European Parliament. The authors of the stories included in the compilation - Vitomirka Trebovac, Ivan Branisavljevic, Nemanja Kuzmanovski and Barbara Pavljasevic - will read excerpts from their works.

22.03.2006 Most Iranians are hoping that upcoming talks between their government and the U.S. will mark the start of a rapprochement between the two countries. Iranian officials have indicated that they would like to use the meeting to try and find common ground on nuclear issues, reports Eurasianet.

22.03.2006 "A new chapter in the fight against impunity" has begun with the International Criminal Court arrest of Thomas Lubanga Dyilo for war crimes and crimes against humanity in the Democratic Republic of Congo, says Amnesty International.

21.03.2006 Ex-marine Brian Stiedle spent parts of three years in Sudan as ceasefire monitor and peacekeeper--he explains the causes of the conflict, what can be done, and what is being done.

20.03.2006 Kenya and other African countries are beginning to sour on the edicts laid down by their Western allies, looking instead China to help them grow economically and politically, some analysts are saying.

17.03.2006 In an emotional speech interrupted by 12 standing ovations, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf recounted the civil war that decimated her country, thanked Congress for their support in ending the bloody conflict, and appealed to the U.S. to help rebuild Liberia--a country bound to the U.S. by shared history and values.

17.03.2006 An increasingly progressive Latin America is leaving behind the strict prescriptions of the "Washington Consensus" and threatening the global strength of the IMF and U.S. influence in the Southern Hemisphere, says foreign policy analyst Mark Engler.

17.03.2006 As President Bush's anti-Iran rhetoric continues to escalate, Phyllis Bennis considers how real the possibility of a U.S. attack on Iran is and why the best solution to the Iran situation is a nuclear-free Middle East.

17.03.2006 While participants at the official forum and attendees of a parallel civil society meeting may agree that water access is a basic human right, they don't always agree on the best ways to ensure it.

16.03.2006 Representatives of social movements, NGOs, and trade activists from 14 Asian countries gathered recently to develop an action plan to challenge the trading superpowers at the next world trade meetings. If they fail, the 'development' round could conclude with an anti-poor set of agreements, they warn.