News headlines for “Democracy”, page 388
Annan Victim of One of the Greatest Fake News Concoctions in History
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Aug 27 (IPS) - Ian Williams is a former President of the UN Correspondents' Association (UNCA) and author of UNtold: The Real Story of the United Nations in Peace and War.
Looking at the deserved outpouring of eulogies over Kofi Annan I could not help remembering the advice of the old Latin saying, "Say nothing about the dead unless it's good."
Shared Humanity our Only Hope Against Hatred
- Inter Press Service
NAIROBI, Aug 26 (IPS) - Siddharth Chatterjee is the United Nations Resident Coordinator to Kenya and was born in the city that was Mother Teresa's home- Calcutta, India.
"If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other." This profound statement was made by the late Nobel Peace Prize winner Mother Teresa, who was born on this day, August 26, 1910. An icon of love, tolerance, generosity and tremendous integrity and spirituality.
Lee, Journalist Banned from UN for Misconduct, Plans to Fight Back
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Aug 24 (IPS) - The United Nation's Department of Public Information (DPI) last week withdrew UN press credentials from Matthew Lee, a longstanding journalist who reported for his blog, Inner City Press (ICP).
When Being ‘Offensive’ or ‘Morally Improper’ Online Carries an Indeterminate Jail Sentence in East Africa
- Inter Press Service
DAR ES SALAAM, Aug 24 (IPS) - JamiiForums was Tanzania's largest whistleblowing online platform, with one million visitors each day. But now some 90 percent of staff has been retrenched and the owners are considering shutting down their offices since the June implementation of the country's online content communication law.
The Fight for the Right to Abortion Spreads in Latin America Despite Politicians
- Inter Press Service
BUENOS AIRES, Aug 23 (IPS) - The Argentine Senate's rejection of a bill to legalise abortion did not stop a Latin American movement, which is on the streets and is expanding in an increasingly coordinated manner among women's organisations in the region with the most restrictive laws and policies against pregnant women's right to choose.
Q&A: Comoros Power Grab Rejected by Opposition, Amid Pleas for International Intervention
- Inter Press Service
BULAWAYO, Zimbabwe, Aug 23 (IPS) - President Azali Assoumani of the Comoros Islands is tightening his grip on power. First, he insisted on holding a referendum allowing him to extend his term of office and abolish the country's constitutional court. Which he won. And now, the lawyer of former President Ahmed Abdallah Sambi has said that his client has been charged Tuesday with corruption and the misappropriation of public funds in a passport fraud.
Rohingya Refugees Left in Limbo One Year On
- Inter Press Service
OSLO, Aug 22 (IPS) - Jan Egeland is Secretary General of the Norwegian Refugee Council.
Aid funding for refugee relief is running out while conditions are still not in place for the safe return of over 700,000 people forced to flee Myanmar to neighbouring Bangladesh after violence broke out one year ago.
Accessible Public Transportation and Housing, a Need for People with Disabilities in Major Cities
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Aug 22 (IPS) - This article is part of a series of stories on disability inclusion.
Even though over six billion people—nearly one billion of whom will have disabilities— are expected to live in urban centres by 2050, many of the world's major urban cities have a long way to go before their infrastructure becomes inclusive for people with disabilities.
An Appreciation - Kofi Annan: A Great Man of Peace & Multilateralism has Left Us
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Aug 20 (IPS) - I woke up on Saturday morning with the heart-breaking news that our dear Kofi is no more. The peoples of the world are unequivocal in expressing their feelings of the love, respect and recognition that they have for his qualities of head and heart.
Annan Denounced Iraqi Invasion as “Illegal” & Criticized Military Leaders Addressing UN
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Aug 20 (IPS) - The Secretary-General of the United Nations, who is a creature of member states, rarely challenges or defies his creators. But Kofi Annan, who died last week at the age of 80, did both. Surprisingly, he lived to tell the tale-- but paid an unfairly heavy price after being hounded by the United States.
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