Full Coverage: Politics

31.10.2006 SAN FRANCISCO, Oct 31 (OneWorld) - Workers in this city could become the first in the nation to be guaranteed paid sick leave after voters go to the polls here and across the country next Tuesday.

27.10.2006 from Greenpeace blogs:
If we're not to fall into a childish round of 'I will if you will', then someone needs to take the bull by the horns (or the plane by the tail) and do something.

26.10.2006 UNITED NATIONS, Oct. 25 (OneWorld) - Nobel peace prizewinners have joined hands with major human rights groups in urging nations to back U.N. moves to ink a treaty that would curb the illicit trade in small weapons.

25.10.2006 O apoio dos movimentos sociais à reeleição do presidente Luis Inácio Lula da Silva se intensificam no país faltando poucos dias para a votação do segundo turno, dia 29 de outubro. Na última quinta-feira, 19, milhares de militantes foram às ruas em várias capitais para lançar e distribuir o manifesto "Com Lula, para derrotar a direita nas ruas e nas urnas".

25.10.2006 Le Premier Ministre Jacques Édouard Alexis a condamné, ce mardi 24 octobre 2006, les récents propos en République Dominicaine d’une cadre des Nations Unies, Johanna Mendelson, qualifiant Haïti d’État en faillite.

25.10.2006 from Oil Change blog:
The hypocrisy of Blair’s government on climate change is all too evident again.

24.10.2006 There has been one issue, however, on which the Bush administration has worked diligently: a long and expensive effort to unseat democratically elected Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez.

23.10.2006 The Centre for Free Elections and Democracy (CESID) will follow the turnout and the results of the referendum on the Constitution of Serbia on a representative sample of 600 ballot stations, the voting procedure and any eventual violations of law and proper procedures.

21.10.2006 More than 20 nongovernmental organizations from Serbia signed the open letter to Hans Ola Urstad, Head of OSCE Mission to Serbia, demanding explanation of the view that the coming referendum on the new Constitution is democratic.

16.10.2006 The Director for Public Relations at the Parliament of Albania has notified the editorial offices of the private media that starting on October 11, 2006, there shall be no live broadcasts of the plenary sessions of the Parliament. The reasons for this decision was explained with the need to sign specific contracts with the private TV stations.

13.10.2006 Les élections présidentielles qui se tiendront au Venezuela, le 3 décembre prochain, seront précédées d’une intensification des attaques de la presse « indépendante » contre le président du Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, et contre la révolution vénézuélienne.

12.10.2006 UNITED NATIONS, Oct 12 (OneWorld) - North Korea's nuclear weapon test has spawned widespread denunciation but the fallout also includes divergent positions on how to respond.

10.10.2006 Condemning widespread global violence against women as a human rights violation, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan has called for more political will and financial resources to fight the scourge says Annan.

10.10.2006 SAN FRANCISCO, Oct 9 (OneWorld) - Afghan women's groups are calling for major changes from their government after the murder of a well-known female official in the southern province of Kandahar.

06.10.2006 Despite the difficulties of the U.S. Congress to pass Free Trade Agreements (FTA) due to the November congressional elections, the Bush administration remains firm in its strategy to push them in Latin America.

06.10.2006 President Óscar Arias Sánchez ended his first 100 days in office with almost nothing to show for it. With an attitude which has been called both authoritarian and arrogant, he launched an electoral campaign centered around the idea that Costa Rica was a drifting ship in urgent need of a captain to get it back on course.

05.10.2006 A última semana de campanha política tem pouco de bom a oferecer. No desespero de convencer os eleitores, vale tudo. O tiroteio se generaliza. Para se defender, todos passam a atacar, e já não se distingue a mentira da verdade, os fatos da fantasia

05.10.2006 SAN FRANCISCO, Oct 4 (OneWorld) - The emotional ravages of war are at issue following the surrender to military officials of Specialist Darrell Anderson, a decorated U.S. soldier who fled to Canada rather than return to Iraq.

04.10.2006 WASHINGTON, DC, Oct 3 (OneWorld) - Call them the Religious Left: Church leaders are seeking to rally ''values voters'' ahead of next month's elections in a nationwide crusade to raise the minimum wage.