Full coverage: Politics

28.02.2006 Stop Climate Chaos campaign group will urge the UK Government to take urgent and effective action on climate change when they meet with the Prime Minister, Tony Blair, and an exceptional line-up of other cabinet ministers including the Chancellor, Gordon Brown today.

25.02.2006 Bolivia's new president is pushing for a new body politic that would ensure the representation of the country's two-thirds majority indigenous population. A minimum of one-third of the seats would be held by women too.

25.02.2006 In Europe, Africa, and South America, women have just taken top posts. But the bigger picture is not so rosy for women, which is surprising, because studies show that when women hold power the quality of governance rises, corruption sinks, and citizens are better represented.

24.02.2006 Si las elecciones municipales y legislativas fueran el próximo domingo, el FMLN retendría por cuarto período consecutivo la alcaldía de San Salvador, de acuerdo a la más reciente encuesta del Instituto Universitario de Opinión Pública (IUDOP), de la UCA.

24.02.2006 SAN FRANCISCO, Feb 24 (OneWorld) - Three Nobel laureates are throwing their weight behind an international coalition in demanding the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq and calling on the public to protest the occupation by taking part in nonviolent lawbreaking at U.S. military bases.

22.02.2006 Refugees International is not mincing words. President Bush requested $514 million for peacekeeping and other programs in Sudan and they're calling on Congress to put up the bucks...but they need your help to close the deal.

22.02.2006 SAN FRANCISCO, Feb 21 (OneWorld) - Media reform groups are calling for a deeper investigation of Bush administration advertising and propaganda efforts following the release of a report that concludes the White House has spun a web of public relations (PR) contracts larger than previously thought.

21.02.2006 The UK Government is putting out two White Papers on international development for consultation until 7 April.

21.02.2006 Britain could lose its ability to impose environmental taxes, restrictions and safeguards on airlines under a draft treaty between the EU and US which curtails the power of national governments.

21.02.2006 Entrevista a Humberto Vargas Carbonel, exdiputado y líder de movimientos izquierdistas en Costa Rica, sobre el aparente renacimiento de la izquierda en América Latina, sobre todo en América del Sur.

21.02.2006 NEW YORK, Feb 20 (OneWorld) - Celebrations of Rene Preval's election as Haiti's new president could prove short-lived in the face of political restlessness and doubts about whether the international community will help heal poverty's open sores in the western hemisphere's poorest and most unequal society, analysts have warned.

20.02.2006 Sot në Vjenë të Austrisë kanë filluar bisedimet mbi kompetencat e komunave të reja, që zyrtarisht shënon edhe nisjen e negociatave mbi statusin e ardhshëm të Kosovës.

18.02.2006 Con uno storico voto alla Camera dei deputati, il Belgio è diventato da ieri il primo Paese al mondo ad aver messo al bando le munizioni a grappolo – conosciute anche come cluster – equiparandole, per i loro effetti indiscriminati, alle mine antipersona. “Il voto belga costituisce un primo, fondamentale, passo verso l’eliminazione di queste armi che rischiano di causare una crisi umanitaria ancora più grave di quella dovuta alle mine, anche a causa dell’altissimo numero di submunizioni innescate che lasciano al suolo,” commenta Simona Beltrami, coordinatrice della Campagna Italiana contro le mine. Le organizzazioni umanitarie impegnate in teatri bellici e post-bellici (Iraq, Afghanistan, Eritrea, Kosovo, per citarne solo alcuni) sostengono da anni che le submunizioni rilasciate dalle bombe cluster si trasformano, quando rimangono inesplose sul terreno, in potentissime mine antipersona, con effetti devastanti sulla vita, la salute e la ripresa economica e sociale delle popolazioni colpite.

17.02.2006 La consolidación de varios gobiernos progresistas en latinoamérica y la decadencia del imperio estadounidense, es el tema que predomina en el análisis de la actual coyuntura política y económica de Latinoamérica, que realiza la Comisión Económica del Comité de Partidos Políticos de América Latina y el Caribe (COPPAL).

17.02.2006 Në mënyrë që të krijohet një Kosovë stabile, bashkësia ndërkombëtare duhet të ketë guxim për ta imponuar pavarësinë sesa të tentojë të përdorë finesa në dallimet e Prishtinës dhe Beogradit me një marrëveshje të dykuptimshme dhe të paqëndrueshme, thuhet në raportin e fundit të publikuar nga Grupi Ndërkombëtar i Krizave (GNK) me titull, Kosova: Sfida e Tranzicionit.

17.02.2006 "Don’t complain, get up and change it." Ashtar Theatre director Iman Aoun, otherwise known as the ‘joker’, is inspiring groups in Ramalla and Jerusalem to act out their political views and thoughts, and to come up with alternative laws underlying the issues to submit to the government.

17.02.2006 Nepal’s violent armed conflict between Maoist rebels and the government has been placing the civilian population in grave danger, said a report released on Thursday by the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OCHCR) in Nepal.

16.02.2006 The opposition in Bangladesh has staged a national strike demanding a 24-hour power supply and lower prices for food and fuel. Schools and businesses closed for the day. The authorities deployed thousands of security troops, but there were no serious clashes.

16.02.2006 s we revel in our commitment to free speech, we barely seem to notice the limited range of things we actually discuss with all this free speech.

Take the question: Why are there so many suicide bombers in the Muslim world?

16.02.2006 Costa Rica is a small Central American country of four million people that - unlike its neighbors El Salvador, Guatemala, and Nicaragua during their bloody civil wars - has never attracted much attention in the United States, except as a destination for tourists and retirees. But last Sunday's election there should serve as another wake-up call for Washington.