| Global Issues |
This page provides links to news and key writings by individuals that highlight international issues and promote action for equality and social justice. The articles selected are those that provide a wider view of the issues they address, and/or are illuminating for readers new to these perspectives.
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The environment
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| Oil spills by Shell in the Niger delta will take 30 years to clean up, says UN - Shell and other oil firms systematically contaminated a 1,000 sq km (386 sq mile) area of Ogoniland. |
| British firms lead rush in Africa on land for bio-fuels - Controversial fuel crops linked to rising food prices and hunger, as well as increased greenhouse gas emissions. |
| Water use in UK deepens global food crisis |
| E-waste trade is the unacceptable face of recycling- read about how computer waste ends up in giant trash piles in Africa, India and China |
| World's poor overwhelmed by rubbish - a series of photographs that show how developing countries bare the brunt of waste and pollution |
| The world's rubbish dump: a garbage tip that stretches from Hawaii to Japan
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| Wangari Maathai: The first African woman Noble peace prize laureate |
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The global economy
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| Global poverty rate falling, says UN - Annual progress report on the millennium development goals shows the world is on track to end extreme poverty, but hunger target is proving more difficult to achieve. |
| To make the IMF relevant will take more than a new leader - Jayati Ghosh, Professor of Economics at Jawaharlal Nehru University, explains how the IMF has consistently failed to do its job. Whether or not Gordon Brown takes over, it needs major reform. |
The Mauritius Miracle - If tiny Mauritius has successfully built a social welfare state then why can't we? - Joseph Stiglitz |
| How food and water are driving a 21st-century African land grab |
| Top ten reasons to oppose the IMF
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Trade |
| West's billions in subsidy shut out African cotton growers - Cotton farmers in west Africa are losing out on vital income because of subsidies paid to rival growers in the EU and the US. |
| EU tramples on India's poor - The EU is pushing an unsavoury free trade deal that would force India to give up control of its banking sector and drugs industry. |
| George Monbiot - Rich countries once used gunboats to seize food. Now they use trade deals. |
| Help ourselves by helping others - Joseph Stiglitz and Andrew Charlton provide startling facts on how European subsidies and tarrifs strangle trade with poor countries |
Palestine and the Middle East
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| How Israel takes its revenge on boys who throw stones - about the brutal interrogation of young Palestinians |
| Israeli academic claims Israeli school textbooks turn children against Palestinians |
| BBC: Q&A on the Palestinian bid for statehood at the UN |
| Robert Fisk: Why bombing Ashkelon is the most tragic irony - on the history of Gaza |
| Seamus Milne: Expulsion and dispossession can't be cause for celebration -The demand to make Palestinian rights a reality is no longer simply a matter of justice but also of self-interest |
| John Pilger: On Iraq and Terrorism - Watch this excerpt from an interview with John Pilger, the distinguished campaigning journalist, for the Media Workers Against the War Conference 'THE FIRST CASUALTY? War, Truth, & the Media Today', at the London School of Economics on November 17th, 2007. |
| Rachel Corrie - In March 2003, a 23-year-old American peace activist, Rachel Corrie, was crushed to death by an Israeli bulldozer in Gaza. Read this remarkable series of emails that she wrote to her family - email dated Feburary 27th is a must read. |
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