While reading an insightful piece published in the Botswana Gazette and republished from the non-profit Arcadia Foundation’s website, on the‘Global Erosion of Freedom’, it dawned on me that many of our readers, aspiring political scientists, and indeed the general populous might not be aware of not just how but why human rights policy has been pushed to [...]
The trial of the internationally renowned dissident Liu Xiaobo is set to start tomorrow in Bejing. Although he was promised an open trial, European and U.S. diplomats have been refused access to the hearing. Chinese reform activists and his wife say they have been warned not to attend the trial. Chinese court officials called Liu’s attorneys last [...]
Rory Carrol, journalist for The Guardian, below covers the story of Eligio Cedeño’s release and the subsequent jailing of the judge who issued the order, the latest chapter in an intriguing case of corrupt leaders using corruption itself as a scapegoat for stifling political will. International attorney Robert Amsterdam is interviewed below on the arrest and [...]
“Be wary of China, for when she wakes, she will shake the world”. – Napoleon Bonaparte The United States have long exerted themselves moral leaders in the geopolitical community. Their bilateral relations with China however, especially given the new economic playing field in the wake of the international economic recession, has left U.S. President Barack [...]
Corporate strategies often lack integrity, primarily in the infrastructure of strategy and occasionally in moral wherewithal. Tonight, the Global Business Coalition will recognize the profound efforts of an organization that looked beyond publicity, beyond even bureaucracy to improve not only the health and lifestyle of their employees but the lives of thousands, perhaps millions of [...]
Oil company Royal Dutch Shell will pay $15.5 million to settle a lawsuit against its Nigerian subsidiary by the family of executed Nigerian environmental activist Ken Saro-Wiwa and other dissidents, the plaintiffs announced yesterday. The lawsuit accused Shell of complicity in the 1995 hanging of Saro-Wiwa and the murders or persecution of other environmental activists [...]
The New York Times has reported that yesterday in Zimbabwe, a court dismissed charges against a leading human rights lawyer accused of obstructing justice. The lawyer, Alec Muchadehama, was part of a legal team representing political activists who later faced charges of ‘plotting to overthrow’ Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe. Mr. Muchadehama himself was arrested last month and accused [...]
Foreign Policy magazine has recently published an advertising supplement which I’ve found to be fairly factual amidst the odd tidbit of propaganda. I’ve decided to omit the portions I felt weren’t entirely factual, but include the majority of the piece, as I truly believe Angola will be a developing nation to watch, given the overwhelming [...]
Africa is the world’s second largest and second most populous continent after Asia, covering 20% of the world’s total land area, and home to 14% of the world’s human population, yet remains the world’s poorest and most underdeveloped continent. Innovative investment has not only attempted to curb this situation, but has bore fruit for those [...]
President Kibaki, speaking Tuesday at Kenyatta International Conference Centre when he officially launched the Women Enterprise Fund, stated the Kenyan government intends to allocate more resources for onward lending to women. “In this regard an additional 500 million shillings will be allocated in the coming financial year, to boost the Women Enterprise Fund,” he said. [...]
