IDN InDepthNews informs on topics related to globalization, global governance and international cooperation http://indepthnews.net/area2.php?key=LA Wed, 28 Jul 2010 22:45:29 +0100 http://indepthnews.net/images/rechts.jpg http://indepthnews.net/area2.php?key=LA 292 117 IDN InDepthNews | Analysis That Matters de-de rjaura@globalommedia.com(Ramesh Jaura) jbusse@globalommedia.com(Joerg-Werner Busse) 60 http://indepthnews.net/news/news.php?key1=2010-07-28%2022:45:29&key2=1 By Martin Khor* IDN-InDepth NewsViewpoint GENEVA (IDN) - The 20 billion U.S. dollar put aside by BP to pay for the effects of the Gulf oil spill contrasts with the lack of accountability of big firms that cause environmental harm in developing countries. In a widely publicised move in June, the United States President Barrack Obama succeeded in getting the oil company BP to set aside $20 billion into a fund to meet claims for compensating losses arising from the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. http://indepthnews.net/news/news.php?key1=2010-07-28%2022:45:29&key2=1 http://indepthnews.net/news/news.php?key1=2010-07-23%2009:02:54&key2=1 By J. Chandler IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis TORONTO (IDN) - In run-up to the presidential elections next October in Brazil, in which Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is out of the contest due to constitutional law that allows presidents to run only two terms in a row, a new report praises achievements of South America's largest country, but also cautions. http://indepthnews.net/news/news.php?key1=2010-07-23%2009:02:54&key2=1 http://indepthnews.net/news/news.php?key1=2010-05-14%2010:33:51&key2=1 By Christine Hackenesch* IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis BONN (IDN) - Global changes are felt at country level. The necessity to enlarge the G-8 to a G-20 while trying to address the global economic and financial crisis illustrated clearly the increasingly important position of emerging powers in the global economy. Debates about the implications of these power shifts for global governance structures often overshadow that the diversification http://indepthnews.net/news/news.php?key1=2010-05-14%2010:33:51&key2=1 http://indepthnews.net/news/news.php?key1=2010-04-16%2002:35:55&key2=1 By Jaspal Singh IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis BRASILIA (IDN) - The two important events for the 'Global South' - the India-Brazil-SouthAfrica (IBSA) and the Brazil-Russia-India-China (BRIC) summits - will have great resonance for the future shape of South-South cooperation, says Rathin Roy, director of the International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth (IPC-IG), based in Brasilia. http://indepthnews.net/news/news.php?key1=2010-04-16%2002:35:55&key2=1 http://indepthnews.net/news/news.php?key1=2010-04-10%2000:32:18&key2=1 By Jaya Ramachandran IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis LUXEMBOURG (IDN) - Leading multilateral development banks have taken a major step in the global fight against fraud and corruption and signed an agreement to debar firms and individuals found to have engaged in wrongdoing in development projects funded by them. Transparency International, the global civil society organisation leading the fight against corruption, hailed the agreement http://indepthnews.net/news/news.php?key1=2010-04-10%2000:32:18&key2=1 http://indepthnews.net/news/news.php?key1=2010-03-24%2019:26:53&key2=1 By Julio Godoy IDN-InDepth NewsViewpoint BERLIN (IDN) - The International Commission against the Impunity in Guatemala - a supranational prosecution office installed almost two years ago by the United Nations to fight organised crime in the Central American country - presented on January 12 the results of its inquiry into one of the numerous assassinations perpetrated last year. The CICIG, as the commission is known after its Spanish name, made public its conclusions on the violent death of Rodrigo Rosenberg, a lawyer with business and familiar links deep into the Guatemalan oligarchy. He was assassinated in the country's capital on May 10, 2009. http://indepthnews.net/news/news.php?key1=2010-03-24%2019:26:53&key2=1 http://indepthnews.net/news/news.php?key1=2010-03-19%2001:10:56&key2=1 By Ronald Joshua IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis BERLIN/PARIS (IDN) - Though developed and developing countries decided about one-and-a-half years ago to take bold steps to reform the way aid is given and spent, the agreement has yet to be put into practice. Now fresh impulses for more effective co-operation architecture are anticipated from the High Level Event on South-South Cooperation and Capacity Development to be hosted in Bogotá by the Government of Colombia March 24-26, 2010. http://indepthnews.net/news/news.php?key1=2010-03-19%2001:10:56&key2=1 http://indepthnews.net/news/news.php?key1=2010-03-15%2021:14:47&key2=1 By Ashley Smith* IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis BURLINGTON (IDN) - The world's tectonic plates are always in motion, but in the past two months, they seem to have struck more dramatically than usual. On January 12, a 7.0-magnitude earthquake devastated Haiti, killing as many as 300,000 people and leaving more than 1.5 million people homeless. Then, on February 27, another quake hit south-western Chile, killing hundreds and leaving more than 2 million people homeless. http://indepthnews.net/news/news.php?key1=2010-03-15%2021:14:47&key2=1 http://indepthnews.net/news/news.php?key1=2010-02-17%2000:47:33&key2=1 By Ernest Corea IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis WASHINGTON DC (IDN) - Religious ceremonies held one month after Haiti's earthquake of January 12, 2010 saw a remarkable coherence among usually competing religious groups when priests representing voodoo beliefs, Roman Catholics, and evangelicals all worshiped together; seeking solace and holding fast to hopes of a future less harsh than the past. http://indepthnews.net/news/news.php?key1=2010-02-17%2000:47:33&key2=1 http://indepthnews.net/news/news.php?key1=2010-02-12%2023:31:34&key2=1 By Gertrud Lapola IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis ROME (IDN) - "In Haiti, there is anguish that seems too much to bear; A land so used to sorrow now knows even more despair." One month after a severe earthquake devastated the impoverished Caribbean island nation on January 12, the first verse from a lyric written shortly after the catastrophe echoes the persistent agony of the Haitians. http://indepthnews.net/news/news.php?key1=2010-02-12%2023:31:34&key2=1