International Affairs & Diplomacy

Parce que reguler la finance contribue a une planete en meilleure etat sur de mulitples plans : social, environement, pauvrete, justice. 

"All that remains of nine-year-old Fawaz al-Husn's left leg is a tightly bandaged stump that ends somewhere above where his knee once was. His right leg was also crushed in the blast, which erupted when he stepped on an anti-personnel landmine near his home in al-Khabsha village, less than 20 miles north of the Yemeni capital, Sanaa."

La veille, dans la nuit, l'une des ambulances qui tentait d'évacuer des hommes gazés a été touchée par les tirs d'un sniper. Le chauffeur a été blessé. Le lendemain matin, les ambulanciers sont parvenus à passer la route à vitesse maximale, sous le tir d'un tank, et ont atteint cette zone du front, où une nouvelle nappe de produits chimiques venait d'être répandue."Lorsqu'on est arrivés, on a trouvé tout le monde par terre", témoigne un infirmier d'un autre centre hospitalier de Kaffer Batna, qui ne peut donner son nom de peur des représailles contre sa famille installée en zone gouvernementale.

It is increasingly likely that hundreds of millions of people will be displaced from their homelands in the near future as a result of global warming.

Food for thoughts on what can the EU and the US could actually do in Syria

„I don‘t see how one can explain to other parts of the world that we would provide less money for these policies….It‘s simple because they are not sitting here right in front of us - the 24,000 children who die every day from starvation are not sitting in the room where we conduct negotiations.“

The administration has now lost all credibility on this issue. Mr. Obama is proving the truism that the executive branch will use any power it is given and very likely abuse it. That is one reason we have long argued that the Patriot Act, enacted in the heat of fear after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks by members of Congress who mostly had not even read it, was reckless in its assignment of unnecessary and overbroad surveillance powers. [...] Stunning use of the act shows, once again, why it needs to be sharply curtailed if not repealed.

"Si l'on veut maintenir des taux de croissance élevés, la priorité doit aller à l'établissement de politiques inclusives qui garantissent le caractère durable et équitable de la croissance. Il faut injecter une part autrement plus importante des revenus générés par le boom des ressources naturelles directement dans l'éducation, la santé et la nutrition. Sinon, nous risquons de saper les efforts visant à stimuler la croissance économique de manière durable".

The primary beneficiaries of the efforts have been Afghan women and children, whose access to basic health care has been transformed.

Beautiful yet tragic and horrific photos from Afghanistan and the impact of the war (and landmines in particular) on the civilian population. 

Spot News, 1st prize singles, Paul Hansen

Gaza City, Palestinian Territories

Two-year-old Suhaib Hijazi and his older brother Muhammad were killed when their house was destroyed by an Israeli missile strike. Their father Fouad was also killed and their mother was put in intensive care. Fouad’s brothers carry his children to the mosque for the burial ceremony as his body is carried behind on a stretcher.

If polio eradication comes unstuck, the CIA will be held by many to blame. The disastrous decision to use a child immunisation programme as cover for a Pakistani doctor working for the US to spy on the house of Osama bin Laden cemented the suspicions lurking in the minds of certain Islamic clerics. [...] But once the US used vaccination as a tool in its war on terrorism, the way was opened for the Taliban to grasp it also for its own ends.