« Even now, I can’t find the words to explain the kinds of horrors that are happening », wrote Nurjan Tulegabylova with El Agartuu, a women’s organization based in Kyrgyzstan. « There are burned houses, but the worst is that corpses of people are (…)
The world’s attention has been riveted in 2008 by election crises in Africa, first Kenya, and now Zimbabwe. In both cases, challenges remain in converting electoral victory to political power. Can a victorious opposition come to power in the face (…)
Last month’s conference [December 2007] on climate change in Bali, Indonesia, brought the North-South fault line in climate politics into sharp relief. While U.S. intransigence on the question of mandatory cuts in greenhouse gas emissions took (…)