Senior Vice-President and Representative to the United Nations, Geneva, Association of World Citizens and editor of the online journal of world politics www.transnational-perspectives.org
The United Nations General Assembly, in Resolution 61/203 ; has proclaimed 2010 as the International Year of Biodiversity. Listen for whispers from the woods, and wisdom will come. The resolution, marking the UN Convention on Biodiversity was passed prior to the holding of the December 2009 (…)
dimanche 17 janvier 2010
In an article “Guinea : A Wave of Horror But No UN Action” I wrote that the main UN human rights body, the Human Rights Council, had taken no real action on the news of the September 28 shootings of unarmed participants in Conakry, Guinea. The Human Rights Council was in the last days of its (…)
lundi 4 janvier 2010
“Accountability for breaches of international humanitarian law and for human rights violations, as well as respect for human rights, are not obstacles to peace, but rather the preconditions on which trust and, ultimately, a durable peace can be built.” Shortly after a Special Session of the (…)
lundi 7 décembre 2009
There is a certain irony in the fact that when the UN system with the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in the lead holds a major conference on food issues, political matters are never clearly discussed. This was true of the recent 16-18 November 2009 World Food Security Summit held at the (…)
vendredi 27 novembre 2009
A wave of horror spread among the assembled delegates at the UN Human Rights Council meeting in Geneva as news of the 28 September shootings of unarmed participants in a political meeting in Conakry was known. It was the last days of the Council session which was then in its final stage of (…)
jeudi 22 octobre 2009
’Only very rarely has a person to the same extent as Obama captured the world’s attention and given its people hope for a better future. His diplomacy is founded in the concept that those who are to lead the world must do so on the basis of values and attitudes that are shared by the majority of (…)
mercredi 21 octobre 2009
16 October is the UN-designated World Food Day, the date chosen being the anniversary of the creation of the FAO in 1945 with the aim, as stated in its Constitution of “contributing towards an expanding world economy and ensuring humanity’s freedom from hunger.” Freedom from hunger is not simply (…)
vendredi 16 octobre 2009
The Myanmar military dictatorship currently speaks of “Myanmar’s Road to Democracy.” This is not unlike the earlier slogan of General Ne Win and his Burma Socialist Programme Party’s “Burmese Road to Socialism.” That Road led a relatively prosperous, rice-exporting country to one that is on the (…)
samedi 15 août 2009
The abrupt departure of the Chinese President, Hu Jintao, from the G8 Summit in Italy is a sign that the Chinese leadership considers the unrest in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region to be such that a collective decision of the ruling circle was necessary. The first decision was the classic (…)
mercredi 22 juillet 2009
With the military defeat of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelan (LTTE) in mid-May 2009, their proposal of a ‘two-State solution’ for the island is probably dead forever. The idea of creating a Tamil State from the north and part of the east of Sri Lanka was unrealistic from the start as Tamils (…)
jeudi 18 juin 2009
With the campaign for the 7 June elections for the European Parliament starting, it is useful to look at the ways political parties structure themselves for pan-European elections. Basically, most political forces remain national, although they are grouped under broad ideological divisions (…)
lundi 13 avril 2009
After a through examination of the evidence presented by the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) Luis Moreno-Ocampo, a panel of three judges has issued an arrest warrant against President Omar Hassan al-Bashir of Sudan. There are seven charges against al-Bashir (…)
lundi 30 mars 2009
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