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...there can be little doubt the Arab world is in need of modernization. As the UN??s 2002 Arab Human Development Report (AHDR) notes, the region is plagued by high unemployment, low growth, pervasive illiteracy and a dearth of opportunity for women. The GME initiative challenges the G8 countries to fund programs that would address these gaps...
...Un?? altra Europa è possibile was the banner under which half-a-million people occupied the piazzas of Florence last month. The march capped a five day conference of intellectuals, trade-unionists and activists assembled as the European Social Forum. Events sparkled with gaiety and giddy energy, contrasting sharply with fresh memories of the 2001 Genoa G8 summit street-battle that resulted in hundreds of hospitalizations and one demonstrator shot dead by the Italian military police. The Forum marked the arrival of a new European left...
...World Social Forum in Brazil. The expectation of violence lay in the mischaracterization of the gathering as a “no-global” action. The people were the same. So were the slogans. But the purpose at hand was new: craft a positive vision. Un?? altra Europa è possibile, but what does it look like, and how do we get there? Florence was the logical culmination of the battles in Seattle and Genoa, but it demonstrated a different sort of political willpower. The new European left showed itself capable of sustaining political energy...
...Filtering is seemingly inconsistent with the UN??s Universal Declaration of Human Rights,” he said. “It also [indicates] that the Internet may be an instrument of censorship, political restrictions, discipline or other state control. In this context, carefully documenting the specific details of the changes is arguably helpful to those who seek to study, analyze, and debate such policies...
...Just in the last year, however, there is hope: by August, the cost of AIDS treatment in developing countries had dropped to $250 per year; countries across Africa and around the world have begun to shake off their apathy and denial and plan serious national AIDS programs; and the UN??s Special Session on AIDS in June led to $1.4 billion in contributions to a newly-created Global Fund for AIDS and Health. This isn’t enough—about $7-10 billion annually will be needed for a serious global response to AIDS?...