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Issue No. 300 (August 2015)
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COVER:
The Third International Conference on Financing for Development: A retrogressive
and disappointing outcome
Financing
for Development and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development: Synergetic
but distinct
At the Third International Conference on Financing for Development,
the rich countries, in their desperate attempts to evade their financial
commitments, sought to denude and ultimately destroy the integrity of
the whole process.
By Ranja
Sengupta
Failing
to finance development?
The outcome of the Addis Ababa conference constitutes a retrogression
from the progress made in financing development in the two earlier UN
FfD conferences.
By Bhumika
Muchhala
Addis
Ababa Action Agenda adopted amidst widespread disappointment
The Addis Ababa conference saw the US, the EU and Japan exerting intense
pressure on developing countries to accept an outcome document which
was unsatisfactory and deficient in many respects.
By Ranja Sengupta
The
debate on the role of foreign investment in financing development
While the considerable debate on the role of foreign investment was
nothing new, at Addis Ababa, there was a definite push for a greater
reliance on foreign investment.
By Aldo Caliari
Why
a UN tax body will benefit everyone
The failure of the Addis Ababa conference to agree on the establishment
of a UN-based global tax body was a major shortcoming. Its importance
is explained in the following briefing.
HEALTH & SAFETY
A
summing up: Health effects of the Fukushima nuclear disaster
Despite the heavy toll from the 2011 Fukushima disaster and the lingering
ill-effects, and against strong public opposition, in August, the Japanese
authorities restarted one of the country's nuclear power reactors after
a two-year suspension.
By Ian Fairlie
ECONOMICS
UN
adopts sovereign debt restructuring principles
The UN General Assembly has in a resolution adopted a set of nine principles
for sovereign debt restructuring. This article written earlier explains
these principles and the significance of the whole move.
By Adriano
Jose Timossi and Manuel F. Montes
Turbulence
and stability in financial markets: China in recent times
Since June, financial markets in China have experienced an unprecedented
degree of turbulence and this has given rise to worldwide concerns.
By Sunanda Sen
SPECIAL FEATURE - The Migrant Crisis
On
the continental shelf: Europe's migrant crisis
The writer comments on the migrant crisis which is now convulsing Europe.
By Jeremy Seabrook
Misreading
the refugee crisis
War begets war refugees, and Europe, which directly or indirectly instigated
or contributed to conflicts in the Middle East, must feel a sense of
moral responsibility for the refugees now streaming into the continent.
By Ramzy Baroud
The
refugee crisis in context
When viewed in the larger global context, it is apparent that the refugee
is neoliberalism's refuse.
By Matt Reichel
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WORLD AFFAIRS
Even
after the Cuba deal, Latin America is still leery of Obama
Despite progress with Cuba, the Obama administration has done little
to dispel doubts about Washington's intentions towards its neighbours
to the south.
By Rohan Chatterjee
How
the US backed Pinochet's henchman Manuel Contreras
A look back at the bloody legacy of Manuel Contreras, who enforced
the brutal repression under Chilean General Augusto Pinochet, and
the role played by the US in the terror he unleashed.
By Nick MacWilliam
Humanitarian
occupation in Haiti
A century after the US military invasion of Haiti in 1915, a UN 'stabilisation
mission' continues to compromise the nation's political and economic
sovereignty.
By Mark
Schuller
HUMAN RIGHTS
US
provides cover for use of banned weapons in Yemen
A coalition of Arab countries led by Saudi Arabia has been waging
a ruthless air campaign against Yemen. Cluster bombs - banned by
an international convention - have been used, supplied by the US.
By Thalif Deen
WOMEN
'Legal
friends' fight gender violence in rural India
A rural women's group in India which evolved from a self-help group
focused on women's economic empowerment to one helping victims of
domestic violence provides an inspiring case study of how community
justice can often be more effective than the centralised state legal
system.
By Stella
Paul
The
case of the Japanese military 'comfort women'
The world recently commemorated the 70th anniversary of the end of
the Second World War. Regrettably, Japan has still to meet the longstanding
demands of the Asian women who were sexually exploited by its troops.
TRIBUTE
Tribute
to a visionary friend of the South
The death in August of Marc Nerfin has robbed the South of a true
friend who championed its cause and articulated its concerns.
By Chakravarthi
Raghavan
POETRY
Liberty
Born in Dahomey (now known as Benin) in June 1935 and a former director
of Radio Dahomey, Emile Ologoudou was also a teacher and journalist.
He has produced several books of poems.
By Ologoudou
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