INTERNATIONAL CRISIS GROUP Haiti: Saving the Environment, Preventing Instability and Conflict Port-au-Prince/Brussels, 28 April 2009: Haiti’s environmental destruction is a time bomb that needs urgent attention if the country is to preserve its social and economic stability. Haiti: Saving the Environment, Preventing Instability and Conflict,* the latest briefing from the International Crisis Group, argues that [...]

Inspiring Action video is part of a recruitment drive to get 3 million more people signed up with Greenpeace as climate activists and taking action in an extremely important year for our climate – at the end of which will be the most important conference this century, the UN Climate Conference in Copenhagen, where deals [...]

INTERNATIONAL CRISIS GROUP Gaza’s Unfinished Business Ramallah/Gaza City/Jerusalem/Brussels, 23 April 2009: If the underlying factors that precipitated the Gaza war are not addressed, Hamas and Israel could soon find themselves on the edge of another explosion. Gaza’s Unfinished Business,* the latest report from the International Crisis Group, argues that the fundamental crisis today is not [...]

Conferences and suggestions about what to do in Afghanistan are chock-a-block, but the reality speaks for itself, says Eric Walberg The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation’s Special Conference on Afghanistan, held in Moscow on 27 March, marks a new stage in the international community’s relations with this beleaguered country. It reflected the growing clout of Russia and [...]

By President Ahmadinejad   This is a rush transcript of the Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s remarks at the United Nations Durban Review Conference on racism in Geneva, Switzerland, on April 20, 2009. Transcribed from the translation given in the U.N. webcast of the speech. Click here to watch video of the speech in English April [...]

INTERNATIONAL CRISIS GROUP Zimbabwe: Engaging the Inclusive Government Harare/Pretoria/Nairobi/Brussels, 20 April 2009: After years of violence, repression and a catastrophic economy, there is optimism Zimbabwe is turning a corner, but the international community must do more to make the process irreversible. Zimbabwe: Engaging the Inclusive Government,* the latest policy briefing from the International Crisis Group, [...]

The following statement was issued by the Board of Trustees of the International Crisis Group meeting over the weekend in Washington, DC: A humanitarian tragedy is unfolding in Sri Lanka involving the possible deaths of tens of thousands of civilians trapped between government and insurgent LTTE (Tamil Tiger) forces in a tiny strip of land [...]