You'd think it was a hoax, but for a modest price a company named LifeGem will make you a real diamond out of the cremated remains of your
Dear Women Making a Difference friends,
I apologise for returning to you a day late with a summary of our discussion to send to the UN and the EU. The
Lawrence Lessig reports that Yahoo launched a Creative Commons search engine last night that allows you to search all the content on the Web that only has "some rights
Inflammatory graffiti has begun to appear on the walls of Baghdad saying, "Arabs out of Iraq" and "We back the government - Arabs go home", The
The issue is no longer whether multiculturalism is a good thing, it seems, but what sort of multiculturalism is best. On the Today programme this morning, Keith Vaz, former Europe
For those of you who missed it in today's Guardian (UK), here is openDemocracy editor-in-chief Anthony Barnett's letter in response to former home secretary David Blunkett&
There's up-to-date information on the unrests in Nepal and Kyrgyzstan on the Asian Centre for Human Rights (ACHR) website. The ACHR weekly Review discusses human rights and the
Personal Democracy Forum has made a list of the top 25 political weblogs (in English) ranked by number of links to them from other blogs. Surprised by any of the
It took half a century for the full story of their friendship to be told. openDemocracy's contributing editor in Chicago, Danny Postel, interviews the author of Camus and
More than 1250 organisations in 68 countries have signed a petition against the nomination of Paul Wolfowitz for president of the World Bank. Eurodad in Brussels, a network of 48
Just as we were wondering "what the hell civil society is" on openDemocracy, access2democracy reports the World Bank-Civil Society Joint Facilitation Committee (JFC) is conducting a survey in
In Kyrgyzstan protestors are so furious, it's the police who are being beaten to death on the streets. Political unrest in this Central Asian country of 5 million
