The YouTube video on Indonesia sent out by Wendy Lee is further confirmation of the extent of the contribution of human action to global warming. The atmospheric pollution, so graphically shown in the video, is an indication of the future to which we might be condemned if we continue to dither on taking effective action to promote alternative development policies which could mitigate or halt environmental degradation…
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Overseas Territories Review has recently completed its analysis of the vote in the United Nations Special Political and Decolonisation Committee (Fourth Committee) which adopted its 2009 resolutions on the remaining 16 non self-governing territories last month. Whilst a number of the resolutions were approved by consensus, the usual vote was required on others, as several of the countries which administer or occupy territories, or those which have sovereignty disputes over territories, vote against or abstain from specific resolutions…
The Second International Decade of Decolonization is ending soon in 2010. The main conclusion is that two decades were not enough to resolve all decolonization issues, in contrary the process of self-determination leading to decolonization has become increasingly complex. Third and even more International Decades will be needed before all Non-Self-Governing Territories have attained self-determination…
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This section of the toolkit provides a basic guide to the meaning of some key terms and practical examples of what they involve…
Traditionally trade means the movement of goods across borders. Free trade rules focused on government measures that restrict the international flow of goods, mainly by taxes (tariffs) at the border, import licenses, quotas, etc…
The following step-by-step guide is intended to assist people to interpret a country’s trade in services commitments as set out in schedules of commitments to the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) at the WTO and under the CARIFORUM-EC EPA..
ACP Secretariat Communique, November 23, 2009
At a time when European leaders are gathering to welcome the dawn of a new era with the coming into force of the Lisbon Treaty, this change may well prove to be more extensive than anticipated. The coming days could spell the end of the era when Europe considered the fight against poverty a priority. ..
The text of the EU Lisbon Treaty omits the reference to the historic relationship and responsibilties of the European Union to the ACP countries that was contained in the previous EU/EC Treaties that it replaces; a development with far-reaching implications for the future relationship between Europe and the ACP.
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‘Miss Lou’ The Hon. Louise Bennett-Coverley, O.M., O.J., M.B.E., Hon D. Litt., is for me the essence of the Caribbean Spirit and Culture. Her life’s work is a celebration of the True Self. From humble beginnings, as a child she thrived on the stories that “country people” shared in her mothers dressmaking parlour, recognising very early, the power of storytelling…
She has bequeathed to us an invaluable collective memory of our culture, and it is up to us… the inheritors of this Brilliant and Triumphant legacy to ensure that it… ‘Endures’ and continues to be ‘Bountiful’…
A small group of rich people who own most of Honduras and its politicians enlist the military to kidnap the elected president at gunpoint and take him into exile. They then arrest thousands of people opposed to the coup, shut down and intimidate independent media, shoot and kill some demonstrators, torture and beat many others. This goes on for more than four months, including more than two of the three months legally designated for electoral campaigning. Then the dictatorship holds an “election.”…
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The United Nations Development Program’s Human Development Report 2009 was released on October 5. It again highlighted some of Cuba’s extraordinary achievements…
