INTERNATIONAL CRISIS GROUP Japan: Back UN Action on Sri Lanka Robust Security Council Measures Urgently Needed to Save Civilian Lives New York, 11 May 2009: Japan needs to “play a more active role” in confronting the worsening humanitarian crisis in Sri Lanka, four international organisations said today in a letter to Prime Minister Taro Aso [...]

  Dear ONE Member, ONE members around the world put forward an exceptional effort trying to convince the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to sell a small amount of their gold reserves to help developing countries hit hard by the financial crisis. Late last week, anti-poverty campaigner Bob Geldof delivered our petition with over 60,000 signatures [...]

INTERNATIONAL CRISIS GROUP Nigeria: Seizing the Moment in the Niger Delta Abuja/Dakar/Brussels, 30 April 2009: The Niger Delta risks sliding deeper into conflict and criminality and spreading instability across the Gulf of Guinea, unless Nigeria’s President Umaru Yar’Adua responds constructively to recommendations of a key committee. Nigeria: Seizing the Moment in the Niger Delta,* the [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]