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WATCH OUT, CNN? On July 2, Iran launched Press TV, an international satellite-news channel in English. The station will present newscasts--with an Iranian spin, no doubt--and reports from its 26 correspondents in cities like Beirut and Gaza City as well as New York, Washington and London. Newcomers to the 24-hour English-language news market since 2005 include Russia Today, France 24 and al-Jazeera International...
Powerlessness and poverty go hand in hand, yet neither is inevitable. As co-chairs of the Commission on Legal Empowerment of the Poor, we believe there is a better way. The commission, a U.N.-affiliated initiative made up of some two dozen past and present world leaders, is exploring ideas to extend enforceable and fungible legal rights to impoverished people in societies across the globe. Our goal is to bring about a consensus on what needs to be done and find incentives for national and local leaders...
...organization is visiting settlements around the world to map out practical paths for change. We are also working with partners like Sheela Patel of Slum Dwellers International, who is helping to relocate more than 23,000 households in Mumbai by organizing communities to present their demands directly to state and municipal governments. The challenge is to replicate that experience globally--to give the poor a platform for demanding legal rights and hold political leaders accountable for responding. The commission is also partnering with CIVICUS, an international alliance dedicated to strengthening citizen action, to put this vital issue on the agenda...
...rather they didn’t just choose to accept one part of me and turn a blind eye to the others. In conversations with Mongolians about my national and ethnic backgrounds, I reaffirm all their positive sentiments about Americans and try to present a different point of view on their southern neighbors by convincing them myself that others with Chinese blood can be good people, as well. There are so many similarities between the two cultures and so many ways in which all three countries and their people can help each other that it cannot be difficult to find...
...After a four-hour tour of several painfully evocative war monuments, holding those cheerful postcards from soldiers between my fingers made the Great War of nearly 100 years ago seem most present and terrifying...