Full coverage: International Cooperation

11.04.2005 To government and business officials from Australia and New Zealand gathered last week to begin to seek slutions to climate change beyond 2012--when the Kyoto Protocol expires--that would involve the U.S. and China, neither of which is currently bound by Kyoto provisions.

10.04.2005 Governments, corporations, and consumers should all be doing more to stop human trafficking, says the Polaris Project.

08.04.2005 Kansalaisjärjestöt arvostelevat jyrkästi ulkomaankauppa- ja kehitysministeri Paula Lehtomäen näkemyksiä Suomen ulko- ja turvallisuuspolitiikasta. Järjestöt ovat saaneet ministerin kirjallisen vastauksen Kimmo Kiljusen (sd) esittämään ja 102 kansanedustajan allekirjoittamaan kysymykseen kehitysyhteistyömäärahojen tasosta.

07.04.2005 For months the world watched as Kofi Annan faced the charge of awarding a contract to a company where his son was employed. An independent investigation cleared Kofi Annan of any wrongdoing; now it is time to focus on what Annan is doing right, rather than on discredited charges that he did something wrong, argues Kenneth H. Bacon, president of Refugees International.

06.04.2005 WASHINGTON, D.C., Apr 6 (OneWorld) - Civil rights and social justice groups are deploying along the U.S.-Mexican border to keep tabs on so-called ''Minuteman'' volunteers on the lookout for undocumented immigrants crossing the desert into the state of Arizona.

06.04.2005 President Bush's nominee for U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations has advocated the military overthrow of Iran, North Korea, and Syria. He has opposed restrictions on the small arms trade, landmines, and biological weapons, and he has stated the U.S. should not be subject to international law. Bolton has a lot of explaining to do if he's to represent the U.S. in the world body, says the international human rights group Madre.

05.04.2005 UNICEF has released an anti-trafficking handbook for parliamentarians and has urged them to protect children from trafficking, exploitation and abuse.

04.04.2005 Alternatives sera bientôt dans votre région pour se présenter à vous, mais aussi pour vous entendre parler des réalités de vos régions : fermetures d’usines ou de mines, épuisement des ressources naturelles, impacts des multinationales sur les commerces locaux, impacts des accords de libre-échange et des règles de l’OMC sur les industries locales.

04.04.2005 L’atmosphère est très tendue, en cette fin d’après-midi, dans un village aux environs de Banda Acheh [dans l’extrême nord de Sumatra]. Le soleil commence à décliner. La température, après avoir atteint les 45 °C à midi, radoucit lentement. Le bruissement des feuilles répond au silence. Un vent frais caresse les dos ruisselants de sueur.

04.04.2005 The outcomes of a high-level meet on the problems of landlocked developing countries will be discussed at UN and other development conferenes to enable the countries to forge global partnerships.

04.04.2005 Indian environment magazine Terragreen demystifies the Kyoto Protocol and provides simple information on how everyone can contribute towards achieving it.

04.04.2005 Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter warns that in the run-up to a major international conference on nuclear weapons, the world's nuclear powers do not seem intent on reducing the global threat posed by these weapons of mass destruction, and the U.S. has been the worst culprit of late.

02.04.2005 WASHINGTON, D.C., Apr 1 (OneWorld) - Paul Wolfowitz, the deputy Pentagon chief and lightning rod for criticism of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, is to head the World Bank. His first task will be to disarm resistance to his tenure.

01.04.2005 For two decades, Canada has fought U.S. trade actions. We have fought them under NAFTA, at the World Trade Organization and at its predecessor, the GATT. If we continue to cave in, the Americans will continue to trample over us whenever they have an important interest to protect. In the softwood lumber dispute, we do have alternatives. Despite the ongoing efforts of our continentalist elites, we still have the capacity to assert ourselves and flourish as an independent nation.

01.04.2005 After the U.S. was assured that none of its soldiers would be indicted, the world's leading political superpower finally agreed Thursday to allow war crimes suspects from the war-ravaged Darfur region of Sudan to be brought before the International Criminal Court in The Hague. More than six months ago, the U.S. called the situation in Darfur "genocide," but little international action has been taken since.

01.04.2005 U najnovijem izveštaju UNICEF-a "Trgovina ljudima u jugoistočnoj Evropi 2004." navodi se da Albanija, BiH, Bugarska, Hrvatska, Makedonija, Moldavija, Rumunija i Srbija i Crna Gora imaju stroge zakone protiv krijumčarenja, ali da ne čine dovoljno kako bi problem sasekle u korenu. Iako UNICEF navodi da je broj žrtava trgovine ljudima u poslednje dve godine u opadanju, beogradska nevladina organizacija ASTRA smatra da je pad tog broja privremen i povezan sa iznenadnim hapšenjima i reorganizacijom struktura koje se bave tim kriminalom.

01.04.2005 The nomination of U.S. Deputy Defence Secretary Paul Wolfowitz to be president of the World Bank was confirmed Thursday. Wolfowitz, said to have a penchant for militarism and strong leanings towards U.S. global hegemony, will take over the reins of the world's top institution serving the poor at the end of May. Much of U.S. and global civil society have expressed strong misgivings about the nomination.

01.04.2005 Eleven years ago the world folded its arms as a genocide unfolded, leaving 800,000 Rwandans dead. Some 400,000 Sudanese are estimated to have died already as a result of what's been described as genocide in Darfur. As Washington, D.C.-based Africa Action prepares for next week's White House vigil--to commemorate Rwanda and call for more intense international action to save Darfur--OneWorld asked the group to explain the past, present, and future for Darfur.

01.04.2005 The story of Finland’s rise from the status of a poor country to an aid donor reads very much like a blue-print from which developing countries could take a leaf. But can it be replicated in the developing countries? Land reforms or conflict resolution are examples of areas where common experiences could be found.