by Carolyn Tan
This afternoon, I attended an event where Brandt Goldstein talked about his new book Storming the Court: How a Band of Yale Law Students Sued the President
It's hello-time for the 6th World Social Forum. It's being held in three different cities this time, January 2006. Pick a location near you: Caracas
On Saturday I was one of the estimated 100,000 people (or 20 million people if you beleive one protestor to whom I spoke) that converged on Washington, to protest
oD friend, Hossein Derakhshan says in today's Guardian (UK), that the world should worry more about whether Iran has a democratic government than whether it has nuclear weapons.
24 September 2005 was a sunny day – like most have been as we’ve marched on London. It was probably my sixth or seventh Stop the War demonstration.
So why
David Mepham does an excellent job summarising the outcomes of the Summit. Important progress was made on genocide (how to fight it), peace, human rights and democracy. Those are all
The good news is that President Bush has renewed his commitment to the Millennium goals, as Johanna Mendelson-Forman writes in oD today. “We are committed to the Millennium Development
I wasn't able to be here in the morning, and now, on the afternoon of the last day of the Summit the press have begun wheeling their equipment
US ambassador John Bolton looks much taller when he is sitting down. "We cannot allow the reform effort to be derailed," he says. And he's also
I wish I had stuck around for the President of Venezuela yesterday (I had to go). Yesterday, I complained the world leaders were too sterile. Well, Hugo Chavez is completely
In an interesting attempt to try to achieve decent working conditions for the millions of workers around the world who produce goods for Wal-Mart, the International Labour Rights Fund
Grace Mukagabiro from Rwanda works for Oxfam and is writing a daily diary of the Summit for the Globe and Mail newspaper in South Africa. Diary of the UN World
