Archive for the ‘World current affairs’ Category
Which UK government department blogs the most?
December 6th, 2010 by Roger Darlington
The answer might surprise you. It’s the Foreign & Commonwealth Office which has more than 50 bloggers from all corners of the globe. Good for them.
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Forgotten World (226): Hungary
December 6th, 2010 by Roger Darlington
It’s one of the regular weeks of postings in my long-running series called Forgotten World – a look at parts of the world that too rarely feature in our media or thoughts. You can check the previous 225 entries here. Perhaps the reason why Hungary – a nation of 10 million – is not so […]
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My favourite quote from the week of WikiLeaks
December 4th, 2010 by Roger Darlington
“We don’t think this information was leaked. We think it was organised to be released on a regular basis and they are pursuing political goals.” Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, President of Iran
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Combating child slavery
December 3rd, 2010 by Roger Darlington
The numbers around child slavery and exploitation are simply staggering and there aren’t enough people fighting back. More than 150 million children younger than 14 years-old are child labourers – one in six children in the world. Those children do hazardous work in mines or on farms, often handling chemicals and pesticides or working near […]
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The hidden side of China’s economic boom
November 25th, 2010 by Roger Darlington
This is an extract from the latest edition of the “China Labour Bulletin”: “The Chinese government last week announced a series of measures to stabilize rapidly increasing food prices. The new measures, which include boosting supplies of staples from government stockpiles, providing additional subsidies to needy families, and cracking down on speculators, clearly indicate the […]
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What is happening on the Korean peninsula?
November 24th, 2010 by Roger Darlington
As anyone who studies international relations will appreciate (I’m still doing a Wednesday evening class in the subject at the City Literary Institute in London), things are always more complicated than they seem at first sight. North Korea’s attack on the island of Yeonpyeong is provocative and unjustified. It is arguably the most serious incident […]
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Happy birthday UNESCO
November 16th, 2010 by Roger Darlington
UNESCO is the acronym for United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization. It was established 65 years ago today as a special agency within the United Nations that would work to further peace and security through educational, scientific and cultural collaboration among countries. A UNESCO intergovernmental committee is meeting in Nairobi, Kenya from 15-19 November […]
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Releases in Asia and Africa
November 14th, 2010 by Roger Darlington
It’s wonderful news that Nobel prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi has been released from many years of house arrest in Burma and that the British couple Paul & Rachel Chandler have been released from a year as hostages in Somalia. It must be everyone’s nightmare to be detained against one’s will for an indeterminate […]
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The state of human development worldwide
November 5th, 2010 by Roger Darlington
The publication by the United Nations of the 20th annual edition of its human development report provides a wealth of fascinating data. The report ranks 169 countries by how developed they are as measured by a combination of measures covering education, health and inequality. You will find the basic rankings in Table 1 here. The […]
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My International Relations course (4)
October 28th, 2010 by Roger Darlington
It’s week 6 on my course at the City Lit in central London entitled “International Relations And World Conflict”. This week, we discussed the situation in the Middle East. In one and a half hours, we didn’t solve the problem of the Arab-Israeli conflict but it was a very interesting discussion. There was strong support […]
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