50 Global Days of Action Against Poverty and Inequality from 1 September to 20 October.

29.08.2008 Trade unions will press the case for "decent work" as a primary benchmark in development aid at a major international conference on the effectiveness of aid, to beheld in Ghana on 2–4 September.

29.08.2008 In a statement marking the 25th anniversary of the International Day of the Disappeared, human rights organisations and family members of missing people from all over the world call on heads of state to ratify the International Convention for the Protection of all Persons from Enforced Disappearances.

29.08.2008 Every now and then you get a small, but significant shift in the battle against climate change and this could be one of those moments.
From: Oil Change

29.08.2008 Colonial powers created African states with arbitrary borders and unsuitable systems of "winner-takes-all" multi-party electoral democracy. As recent elections show, this has been a failure. It is time to develop an African form of democracy, says Richard Dowden.

26.08.2008 Q. "Will the Maoists now formally announce a rejection of violence?"
A. "This is a very difficult question."
An interview with Nepal's new prime minister, the Maoist leader Prachanda.

All the boys in the band want to do is play. Unfortunately, they are Iraqis, so it has proved impossible.

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