A quick visit to the Kolubara mining basin reveals that the resettlement there looks nothing like the presentation from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development that financed the project to which it is related. posted on the Bankwatch blog by Nikola Perusic, Campaigner in Serbian Bankwatch member group CEKOR During a recent visit to… » read more
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A new report takes a critical look at the engagement of European development banks in Egypt after the popular uprisings in the Middle East and North African region. This article appeared originally on the Counter Balance blog and has been shortened and slightly edited. posted on the Bankwatch blog by Berber Verpoest, Media officer for… » read more
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The 57th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) took place at United Nations Headquarters in New York from 4 to 15 March. This year, the priority theme was the ‘Elimination and Prevention of All forms of Violence Against Women and Girls’. Leaders from all over the world worked very hard to… » read more
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Development Policy, English, EU Citizens and Media, EU Priorities 2020 |
Reflections on World Malaria Day 2013: Who Actually Cares?
April 25, 2013
World Malaria Day 2013 came and went … and nobody cared. Greenpeace did not accept responsibility for the tens of millions of needless deaths, choosing rather to celebrate Cute Penguin Day instead. The Risk-Monger is ready to give up on evidence-based policy making. var addthis_config = {“data_track_clickback”:false,”data_track_addressbar”:false,”data_track_textcopy”:false,”ui_atversion”:”300″}; var addthis_product = ‘wpp-3.0.5’;
By David Zaruk April 25 was World Malaria Day 2013. It is marked in my calendar as a black day to commemorate the thousands who die every day from malaria. As these are mostly infants and mostly in Africa, they have no voices in Brussels or Washington, where erroneous decisions were made decades ago to… » read more
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Development Policy, English, Health & Consumers, Science & Policymaking, Sustainable Dev. |
25 April 2013 BRUSSELS – A roundtable discussion, hosted and moderated this morning in the European Parliament by MEP Ricardo Cortés Lastra, urged international food assistance agencies and the EU to work together more closely to address the recurrent food and nutrition crises affecting the world’s most vulnerable populations. The roundtable included speakers from the… » read more
We invite you to read a guest entry by our friend Anar Gasimli, who is an Azerbaijani lawyer, on the role and situation of advocates who defend human rights activists in Azerbaijan. “Every time after the detention of activists, some free spirit youths, human rights defenders, or political party members call to invite me to… » read more
by Arlene McCarthy MEP (@EuroMP_ArleneMc) Following months of tough negotiations, the European Parliament has secured a deal on new disclosure requirements for the extractive and logging industries. But why do we need these rules and what difference will they make to people in the developing world? In May 2012, documents came to light detailing how… » read more
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Les franchissements irréguliers des frontières extérieures de l’UE ont été divisés par deux en 2012 grâce aux renforcements des contrôles aux frontières. Le renforcement des contrôles à la frontière entre la Grèce et la Turquie a considérablement fait baisser l’afflux des migrants. L’on assiste aussi à un déplacement des flux migratoires Le nombre de franchissements… » read more
Climate Change and Food Security
April 12, 2013
By Brian Gardner Whatever governments may or may not agree on GHG emissions, the one thing that is likely is that average global temperatures will continue to rise. What is also likely is that the world’s food production capacity will be affected by the change that temperature rises will create. There is however no consensus… » read more
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This month, a WFP-EU photo exhibition on ‘Building Resilience’ is on show at Dublin Airport. The focus of this exhibition is the link between climate change, nutrition and hunger. These photos tell the stories of the challenges faced by some of the world’s most vulnerable people as they struggle to feed their families while adapting… » read more
European promises to poor nations crumbling
April 4, 2013
By Oxfam EU Aid builds hospitals, pays doctors’ salaries and buys textbooks and medical equipment. It isn’t charity; it’s a tiny but crucial investment to build a better, safer world. New figures from the OECD, released today, show that aid from EU-15 has fallen for the second year in a row, with a €10 billion… » read more
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By the World Food Programme BRUSSELS – A contribution of €10 million, announced today, from the European Commission’s Directorate for Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection (ECHO), has been welcomed by the United Nations World Food Programme, and brings the Commission’s total assistance to WFP for its Syria operations to almost €42 million since the crisis… » read more
By Michaël Privot 21 March is International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. Yet discrimination continues to affect the lives of many ethnic and religious minorities throughout Europe in access to education, employment, housing, goods and services as well as in how they are treated by the police and criminal justice system. This is… » read more
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Children first and foremost – Tackling child poverty of undocumented children is vital for Europe
March 21, 2013
By Michele LeVoy Tackling poverty and social exclusion is now one of the core objectives of the EU’s Europe 2020 Strategy with the aim of reducing poverty and social exclusion across the EU by at least 20 million by 2020. To reach this goal, the EU needs to act quickly as the number of children… » read more
The rights of disabled prisoners – D.G. against Poland
March 19, 2013
In the case D.G. against Poland (application no. 45705/07), the applicant alleged that the conditions of his detention had been incompatible with his disability. In February 2013, the European Court of Human Rights decided that Poland violated Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights. The outcome of the D.G. case will likely have… » read more
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A Conference with Mali’s Foreign Minister
February 9, 2013
This week I attended a conference and Q&A with Tièman Hubert Coulibaly, Foreign Minister for Mali’s interim government, which was both a privilege and a remarkable coincidence given the subject of my latest post. Mr. Coulibaly was in Europe to attend emergency meetings with both French and EU officials. Concerning the latter, a ministerial meeting… » read more
Comment on African Jihadism
January 30, 2013
The richest, the most beautiful and resourceful continent of the World, Africa, is steadily plunged into a wide area of civil conflict and massacres, with major demand the rise into power for jihadists. The continent that has been for centuries the center of atrocities and expoitation by the European colonialism has never achieved to provide… » read more
Aid must be protected from hard bargaining on the EU budget
January 29, 2013
In this age of austerity, the forces of frugality are powerful; so is the temptation to defend national self-interest. The negotiations on the next 7-year budget of the EU are a case in point. And the biggest casualty of EU financial squabbles may well be humanitarian and development aid. Given the existing divergence of views… » read more
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Development Policy, English, EU Institutions, EU Priorities 2020 |
Azerbaijan authorities arrest prominent HR activists
January 26, 2013
A growth of political and social tension in Azerbaijan has been observed in recent days. On Wednesday 23 January 2013 the town of Ismayilli was shaken with protests and on Saturday 26 January hundreds of people demonstrated in Azerbaijan’s capital to express solidarity with recent protests across the country. The social unrest was triggered by… » read more