Crossing the street to enter the UN building yesterday, I passed Abdoulaye Wade, the president of Senegal. Honestly, I would never have recognised him if it weren't for
PM Ariel Sharon described his belief in the Jewish right to Jerusalem as the "essence of my Jewish consciousness." He spoke of Israel's "concessions"
On the day of President Bush's speech on the opening day of the Summit, bloggers are much less interested in the words he uttered, than the ones he
"Good deeds start at home," said the prime minister of Denmark referring to the "oil-for-food scandal", "and the UN needs to get its
I am sitting in the General Assembly hall, where the UN has conveniently provided wireless internet. The president of Georgia is speaking and no one is listening (sorry Georgia). Many
See the video of the President's performance today at the UN. Here's a rundown of what he said: He said thanks for help with Katrina: "
From a quick walk around the UN buildings and surronding area, I'd say Solana Larsen is right (see previous post) to say New York is so far underwhelmed
In July this year around 30,000 old police files were discovered in a disused ammunition dump in Guatemala’s capital city. Containing what appears to be a complete record
The 2005 UN Summit in New York starts today, and openDemocracy is co-editing a daily newsletter together with the Stakeholder Forum. It's called Outreach. The first issue
Ever since the dramatic arrest of the former Chilean dictator Auguste Pinochet in London in 1998, at the behest of the Spanish judge Baltasar Garzon, human rights advocates and victims
I am not so ignorant as to believe that this meager webblog could draw significant attention to Akbar Ganji's imprisonment.
Although, I hope it to be a stepping
Rafsanjani and Khatami are surprisingly absent and Khamenei doesn't try to hide it For the first time, Hashemi Rafsanjani has revealed a deepening dissatisfaction with how Khamenei is
