We Need Millennium Development RIGHTS – Not Just Goals
Millennium Development Rights would transform the global struggle against poverty and provide accountability for governments, corporations, and others who deny those rights.
Review: ‘The Ultimate Weapon is No Weapon’
Can civilians and the military cooperate on building human security in conflict zones around the world?
Five Years after Katrina
The government’s Katrina response undermined the basic right of every disaster survivor to return home.
Author Event: The Coke Machine: The Dirty Truth Behind America’s Favorite Soft Drink
The Coke Machine takes readers deep inside the Coca-Cola Company and its international franchisees to reveal how they became the number one brand in the world, and just how far they’ll go to stay there.
Ever since its “I’d like to teach the world to sing” commercials from the 1970s, Coca-Cola has billed itself as the world’s beverage, uniting all colors and cultures in a mutual love of its caramel-sweet sugar water. The formula has worked incredibly well-making it one of the most profitable companies on the planet and “Coca-Cola” the world’s second- most recognized word after “hello.” However, as the company expands its reach into both domestic and foreign markets, an increasing number of the world’s citizens are finding the taste of Coke more bitter than sweet.
An Urgent Need to Stabilize Kyrgyzstan
After ethnic rioting erupted in Kyrgyzstan this summer, continued international engagement in the country is crucial to reduce the likelihood that violence will break out again, causing more casualties and unpredictable consequences for regional stability.
A Nation still Divided: Rwanda’s elections provoke fierce debate at Washington briefing
A tense briefing on Rwanda’s August 9 elections demonstrated that politics still evoke a strong emotional response from many Rwandans, 16 years after their devastating genocide.
Annual Letelier-Moffitt Human Rights Awards Ceremony
Join IPS as we honor the National Day Laborer Organization Network (NDLON) and the Honduras Human Rights Platform. There will also be a special recongition award for the Guatemalan Police Archives and our special musical guests will be Sweet Honey In The Rock.
Bringing a Human Focus to the Immigration Debate
What’s missed in discussing immigration reform is the impact current laws have on lives and families.
Conference by the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice
The opening and closing sessions of this conference will explore how new technologies are affecting the way human rights and freedom activists must approach rights and freedoms in the digital age. There will be a will mix in-depth examination of multiple perspectives on human rights issues with workshops on effective approaches to human rights grantmaking.
Congo’s Quest for Liberation Continues
The world still extracts resources from Congo, and the Congolese still don’t get the benefits.
The Lasting Significance of Kwangju
New U.S. documents reveal Washington’s complicity with dictators around the Kwangju uprising of 1980 in South Korea.
Israeli Attack on Palestinian Flotilla
An attack by the Israeli military on a flotilla carrying food and supplies for Palestinians results in 16 deaths.
The Legacy of U.S. Nuclear Testing in the Marshall Islands
The people of the Marshall Islands had their homeland and health sacrificed for U.S. national security interests. The Obama administration and Congress should promptly correct this injustice.
Calderon’s Visit to Washington
U.S.-Mexican relations might look at little different in the age of Obama, but the Bush-era priorities remain the same.
Urging Presidents Obama and Calderon to Address Human and Workers’ Rights Issues
They should seek to strengthen Mexican judicial and civilian institutions while creating jobs and education opportunities for the millions of those without decent jobs.