http://uk.oneworld.net/section/uk/opinion en_GB_uk http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/86007 Avoiding failure in Afghanistan means embracing its patronage politics—bribes and all, argues Alex De Waal. http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/86005 Lord Mandelson seems hellbent on stifling online creativity, says Bill Thomspon. http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/86001 Migrants' rights have to be addressed on two fronts, says Walden Bello: end the neoliberal policies that are responsible for creating poverty in their home countries, thus forcing them to emigrate, and demand that they are given full rights in their host countries. http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/85987 Judging by his recent statements, British Justice Secretary Jack Straw seems to expect a “thank you” note from Susan Alexander in the next few days. But Parliament has allowed the principle of open justice to be seriously undermined - which is why Alexander will not be writing a “thank you” note. http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/85980 Kenyans must embrace and own the Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission, argues Dr Godfrey Musila. http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/85978 The theft of West Papua's mineral wealth must end. The province's courageous resistance movement deserves nothing less, says John Pilger. http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/85971 As Index on Censorship and English Pen launch Free Speech is Not For Sale, a damning report on English libel laws, John Kampfner highlights the pressing need for reform. http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/85961 If climate activists were football teams, we'd be Brazil. Climate change activism is more developed in this country than anywhere else in the world, Bibi van der Zee has been told by people from Australia, Germany, Canada, Denmark and the US. Which prompts the question: why? http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/85394 Rwanda's Science and technology Minister, Professor Romain Murenzi, says science and technology will be at the heart of his country's development strategies. http://uk.oneworld.net/article/view/162603/1/9547 By focussing on the performance of Western leaders and on Ms. Obama's and Mme Bruni's fashion-trendsetting dresses, the media has missed the point: the vacuousness of the recent round of global summitry in the face of five major global crises, says Jan Oberg. http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/85011 If any lesson is to come out of the current financial crisis, it is that the pipedream of corporate social responsibility needs to be shelved, argues Marcin Bondarowicz. http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/85010 A mass campaign is needed to convince the Sinhalese majority that devolution and democratisation are in its interest as much as they are in the interest of Sri Lanka’s minorities, says Rohini Hensman. http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/85019 Only four members of the UN voted against the Declaration on Indigenous Rights in 2007 - Canada, New Zealand and the US. Three are members of the Commonwealth. http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/85007 Some of President Barack Obama's decisions on Bagram, the US prison in Afghanistan, have "quietly signaled support for many of Bush's 'war on terror' policies," says Stacy Sullivan. http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/84927 The spate of lese-majesty cases in Thailand is a manifestation of a turn away from the democratic and social developments of the 1990s and back towards the outdated authoritarianism of earlier decades, says an Asian rights group.