Just today another deadly car bomb was set off at a marketplace in the suburbs of Baghdad, demonstrating the extremely difficult obstacles affecting the reconstruction of Iraq and its economy. Last...
Some stories cry out to be told, even if they may not be told fully. Imagine sitting in a cell, shackled by a totalitarian regime because your political beliefs are...
To continue on the topic of the previous post, Reporters Without Borders published a handbook for bloggers and cyber-dissidents. The handbook, for example, has a story from Nepal to illustrate the...
In recent weeks, the Nepalese government has stepped up attacks on free media, targeting those who have openly criticized the actions of the King and the security forces. Usually, shutting...
After much fanfare that a clean election had taken place in Haiti last weekend, social turmoil ensued as presidential aspirant, Rene Preval, appeared unable to win the election in the...
Today, the Russian parliament – the State Duma – ratified the U.N. Convention Against Corruption. It took just over 2 years for Russia to ratify the Convention, which the country signed in...
The Institute of Public Policy Analysis in Nigeria is soon to release a report on corruption (in its February Newsletter), which suggests that foreign aid contributes to the problem as...
Language is the most fundamental unit in information gathering. Without it, human beings would have a limited capacity to communicate. Language has often been the cause of miscommunication and misunderstanding,...
The passing of the Russian law on NGOs [see my earlier post on this] has stirred up a lot of controversy over the past several months. But, did the international development...
When the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention was drafted in 1997 and entered into force in 1999, it was a significant step forward, to say the least, for efforts to combat bribery...
