INTERNATIONAL CRISIS GROUP Lebanon’s Elections: Avoiding a New Cycle of Confrontation Pour lire ce communiqué de presse en français, cliquez ici. Beirut/Brussels, 4 June 2009: The challenge of Lebanon’s 7 June elections will be to bring winners and losers together to avoid triggering another cycle of violent confrontation. Lebanon’s Elections: Avoiding a New Cycle of Confrontation,* [...]

  Greenpeace calls on world leaders to act on climate change and save the Indian Monsoon   Mumbai, India, 4 June, 2009:  The Indian monsoon – the lifeline of the subcontinent – will be significantly affected by climate change, according to a Greenpeace report released on the eve of World Environment Day. As negotiators in [...]

INTERNATIONAL CRISIS GROUP Pakistan’s IDP Crisis: Challenges and Opportunities Islamabad/Brussels, 3 June 2009: Unless relief, rehabilitation and reconstruction efforts in Pakistan’s Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP) are urgently improved, the army’s offensive against the Taliban risks leaving the extremists the ultimate winners.   Pakistan’s IDP Crisis: Challenges and Opportunities,* the latest International Crisis Group policy briefing, [...]

An Open Letter to President Obama From the Free Gaza Movement 3 June 2009 Dear President Obama, Tomorrow you travel to Egypt to give one of the most important speeches of your presidency. With the words you deliver you have said that you want to “reset” U.S. relations with the Muslim world and create a [...]

INTERNATIONAL CRISIS GROUP U.S.-Iranian Engagement: The View from Tehran Tehran/Brussels, 2 June 2009: Genuinely normal Iran-U.S. relations may be out of reach for now, but the two could achieve a more realistic objective: beginning a long-term dialogue that minimises risks of confrontation while working on areas of mutual interest. U.S.-Iranian Engagement: The View from Tehran,* [...]

For Anti provety supporters and ONE organization members Anti-poverty campaigner and ONE supporter Bob Geldof wants to answer your questions. He has recorded a short video to explain. So go ahead and check out the video and send us your question:     http://www.one.org/international/askbob/?id=980-4001867-AlUm6Rx&t=3

By Philip Weiss (in Gaza) Mondoweiss May 31, 2009   My group is leaving Gaza over the next couple of days. A few of us don’t want to leave. We feel connected to the place, and the people have been universally welcoming. They all say the same thing. They want to be part of the [...]