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Colombia, the United States, and Montesquieu

Tuesday, June 18, 2013

ALFAZ, Spain, Jun 18 (IPS) - The United States and Colombia are the leaders in mental anxiety in the Americas.

Both have good reasons: Colombia has witnessed the longest lasting violence in any contemporary country: from 1949, with some interruptions, then on again from 1964 with the notorious guerilla group, the FARC (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia).

The Taliban Torches a Lifeline

Tuesday, June 18, 2013

PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Jun 18 (IPS) - The United States is laying meticulous plans ahead of its 2014 withdrawal from Afghanistan, but it has clearly overlooked how its continued drones strikes on the tribal areas of neighbouring Pakistan will affect the much-anticipated pullout.

Kurds Advance, Into the Unknown

Tuesday, June 18, 2013

GIRKE LEGE, Syria, Jun 18 (IPS) - A ban on political and even social gatherings, a bar on Kurdish language and culture; uprooting people, forced disappearances and a ‘caste' of hundreds of thousands of local Kurds deprived of citizenship... life for Kurds in pre-war Syria was probably as dire as it is today for their kin in Iran.

Washington Mulls Surprise Rouhani Victory in Iran Vote

Tuesday, June 18, 2013

WASHINGTON, Jun 18 (IPS) - The surprise victory of Hassan Rouhani in Iran's Jun. 14 election has provoked a range of reactions here, ranging from cautious optimism about possible détente between Tehran and Washington to outright rejection of the notion that his presidency will produce any substantive change in policy, foreign or domestic.

Analysts Say Oil Could Help Mend U.S.-Venezuela Relations

Monday, June 17, 2013

No 'Free Pass' for U.S. in Human Rights Film Festival

Monday, June 17, 2013

NEW YORK, Jun 17 (IPS) - Stories of struggle can be found all over the world, from a law classroom in Oklahoma and the brutal borderlands between the United States and Mexico to a Bedouin village in Jordan and wedding parties in Morocco, as the 24th Human Rights Watch Film Festival is showcasing.

Women's Time Has Come

Monday, June 17, 2013

ROME, Jun 17 (IPS) - Closing the gender gap between women and men on agriculture and food security could free over one hundred million people from hunger. 

MDGs Fund Boosts Food Security

Monday, June 17, 2013

ROME, Jun 17 (IPS) - Since its founding in 2007 to help developing nations fight poverty, hunger, illiteracy, disease and gender discrimination, the Millennium Development Goals Achievement Fund (MDG-F) has financed about 130 joint programmes in 50 countries.

OP-ED: Social Protection Can Help Overcome Poverty and Hunger

Monday, June 17, 2013

ROME, Jun 17 (IPS) - The growing consensus, momentum and commitment to eradicate world hunger may seem overly ambitious in view of the slow progress in reducing the number of hungry people in the world in recent decades.

Fatwas Heighten Sectarian Tensions in Syria Conflict

Sunday, June 16, 2013

, Jun 16 (IPS) - Saudi Arabian religious scholars are leading an increasingly vocal chorus of Islamic preachers who are urging Muslims and Arabs to support Syrian rebels against what they say are atrocities at the hands of Iran-backed Shiite forces of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

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