Guest editorials

24.10.2003 October 13, 2003
Survival International Director Stephen Corry argues for full recognition of the rights of southern Africa’s “first peoples”, currently under threat from a combination of diamond exploration and anthropologists’ sophistry.

24.10.2003 October 6, 2003
Rebecca Yeo of Action on Disability and Development highlights the unintentional discrimination against people with disabilities within development organisations and urges the need for awareness and inclusion.

24.10.2003 September 29, 2003
Troy Davis, President/CEO of the World Citizen Foundation, argues for a step-by-step, participatory approach to building democracy, peace, security and freedom in Iraq.

24.10.2003 September 22, 2003
Florencia Copley of Fundacion Pacificar, Costa Rica, fears that the proposed new International Law Enforcement Academy to be built in the Central American country could imperil human rights and will reinforce US hemispheric dominance.

24.10.2003 September 15, 2003
Following the collapse of the WTO talks, Alex Lockwood highlights the devastation of West African livelihoods resulting from EU and US cotton subsidies. GM cotton, he argues, is not the answer.

24.10.2003 September 8, 2003
Authors Fatoumata Jawara and Aileen Kwa reveal what went on at Doha and in the run-up to Cancun, and predict more plundering of the South as a result of the WTO ministerial talks this week.

24.10.2003 Following the failure of the six-nation talks in Beijing, James Reilly and Wu Na, East Asia Quaker International Affairs Representatives with the American Friends Service Committee, advise the U.S. Government to offer meaningful concessions to North Korea in exchange for an end to its nuclear program. August 29, 2003

24.10.2003 Steady progress worldwide towards equal per capita rights to burn fossil fuels and emit greenhouse gases is the only real alternative to the nightmare of total climate destabilization, says Aubrey Meyer of the Global Commons Institute. August 21, 2003

03.09.2003 Simon Burall, Director of the One World Trust, highlights the importance of accountability and transparency for NGOs, both to enhance global democracy and to forestall attacks from partisan interests. August 11, 2003

24.10.2003 Izzat Abdel Hadi of the Bisan Center for Research and Development argues that Palestinian national liberation depends on the democratic transformation of Palestinian official institutions, and the current “Road Map” offers real opportunities for both. July 29, 2003