International Political Forum


 
Author Archive
Recent
Most Commented
Random
 

 
Uncategorized

Daily News Roundup – 10 December 2012

  Africa Morsi gives army arrest powers before vote Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi has ordered the military to maintain security and protect state institutions in the run-up to a controversial referendum on a new constituti...
by Richard Scott-Jones
0
Full Story »

 
 
Video & Photography

WATCH: We Need Male Leaders Against Gender Abuse

Jackson Katz PhD is an anti-sexist activist, filmmaker, author and educator. In this TED talk he discusses his “bystander approach” to eradicating sexist abuse, in which witnesses of abuse – and male ones in particular ...
by Richard Scott-Jones
1
Full Story »

 
 
Uncategorized

Daily News Roundup – 14 August

  Europe Breivik could have been stopped sooner, inquiry concludes An independent inquiry into Anders Behring Breivik’s attacks on a Christian youth camp in July 2011, which left 77 people dead and more than 240 wounded,...
by Richard Scott-Jones
0
Full Story »

 

 
Uncategorized

Daily News Roundup – 28 November 2012

  Africa Mursi protests continue in Egypt Egyptian protesters have vowed to continue defying President Mohammed Mursi’s wide-ranging new powers.  Tens of thousands of people demonstrated across the country on Tuesday, in on...
by Richard Scott-Jones
0
Full Story »

 
 
Human Rights

WATCH: Ingenuity, Film and Social Media Combine to Save Lives from Landmines

Massoud Hassani grew up on the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan, near a desert filled with unexploded mines left by foreign armies. As a child he would build cheap wind-powered toys and race them across the desert with his frien...
by Richard Scott-Jones
0
Full Story »

 
 
Uncategorized

Daily News Roundup – 9 January 2013

  Africa Nato forces needed in Mali, says African Union The African Union’s chairman Thomas Boni Yayi has called for Nato to send forces to Mali to help fight militant Islamists who have captured the north.  The Malian conf...
by Richard Scott-Jones
0
Full Story »

 

 
Uncategorized

Daily News Roundup – 17 October 2012

  Europe Radovan Karadzic denies Bosnian war crimes Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, beginning his defence against charges of war crimes in the Hague yesterday, has said he should be rewarded for “reducing su...
by Richard Scott-Jones
0
Full Story »

 
 
Uncategorized

Daily News Roundup – 8 August 2012

  Europe Standard Chartered shares recover Shares in British bank Standard Chartered have rebounded after their steepest one-day decline in decades.  The crash came as New York’s State Department of Financial Services a...
by Richard Scott-Jones
0
Full Story »

 
 
Uncategorized

Daily News Roundup – 4 July 2012

  Europe Barclays boss to appear before MPs Bob Diamond, the former chief executive of Barclays who resigned yesterday after it was revealed that his bank had been involved in manipulating the interbank rate, will appear b...
by Richard Scott-Jones
0
Full Story »