Opinion and Analysis Archive

26.01.2007 Irene Khan, Amnesty International’s secretary general, has been blogging from the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos. Read it here.
* Meanwhile, at the World Social Forum, Mary Robinson and Patricia Daniel blog from Nairobi.
+ Poor will gain nothing from latest attempt to kick-start Doha trade deal

25.01.2007 Mary Robinson and Patricia Daniel blog from the World Social Forum in Nairobi.

24.01.2007 The spectre of a nuclear war 60 years ago created the "doomsday clock," the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists' cold war chronometer. Today the threat of nuclear conflict remains and a new doomsday force is moving the clock hands: global warming.

22.01.2007 When Tahmima Anam went home to Dhaka to cast her vote in the now-postponed election, she found a nation in chaos, tormented by corruption and brutality. Her father, Mahfuz Anam, says Our independent press is not safe

18.01.2007 While Darfur burns, Sudan's north-south peace agreement is fraying, reports Simon Roughneen.

17.01.2007 UK Chancellor Gordon Brown must put pressure on the Indian Government to do more to end the exploitation of millions of children forced into child labour when he visits the country this week, following his recent comments on the 200th anniversary of the abolition of slavery, says Save the Children.

16.01.2007 Now is the time to rediscover John Maynard Keynes’s revolutionary ideas for an international trade organisation and adapt them to rebalance the world’s economies in the 21st century, argues Susan George.

14.01.2007 In the Darfur region of Sudan, civilians are raped and killed, not for land or goods, but because of who they are. The killing is an end in itself, says Brian Brivati.

14.01.2007 Tony Blair scorns countries which "except in the most exceptional circumstances" have rejected war-fighting and "retreated to peacekeeping alone”. But OneWorld UK's Daniel Nelson says that the option rejected by the Prime Minister sounds like a better policy than a finger constantly on the trigger.

12.01.2007 Zimbabwean writer Stanley Makuwe looks at what it means not to have access to basic services - from the point of view of dead people.

11.01.2007 US air strikes against so-called Islamist fighters in Somalia will do little to bring peace and security to the region, says a leading development group.

10.01.2007 Indian laws, policies and political rhetoric appear to favour the rights of Dalits and other low-caste communities. But do these translate into improvement in their lives? Meenakshi Ganguly reports.

09.01.2007 The world is full of conformism masquerading as profundity, says Fred Halliday, who sets out to explode 12 global falsehoods.

08.01.2007 Sameer Padania looks at how bloggers around the world are debating the death penalty in the wake of the cellphone footage of Saddam Hussein’s execution.

05.01.2007 Body Shop founder Anita Roddick explains why she's standing up against Trident replacement and calling on politicians to find the courage to be counted on an issue that deeply affects all of our futures.

03.01.2007 The first months of 2007 bring an opportunity to open discussion on a subject that Britain's government would prefer to keep closed, says Paul Rogers.

01.01.2007 Simon Maxwell, director of the London-based Overseas Development Institute, was awarded a CBE for "services to international development" in the New Year Honours list. Read his outlook for global development.