New anti-trafficking law reducing paedophile sentences

" Last year’s law reclassifying sexual crimes has ushered in climate of leniency, say rights groups THE lengths of prison sentences given to convicted paedophiles have fallen since the passage of the Kingdom's...

Kosovo Civil Society Protests Increased Serbian Influence

November 24, 2008, Prishtina, Kosovo: Thousands of Kosovar citizens took to the streets of Prishtina last week to protest a United Nations proposal to increase Serbia's influence in Kosovo. The proposal, put...

TI: African Accra Aid Forum Falls Short Anti-Corruption Vow

Transparecy International - an NGO that looks at corruption from the accounts of private sector- expressed disappointment at the conclusion of the High-Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness. It claimed...

UNODC launches 2008 World Drug Report in Brussels

BRUSSELS—The 20th UN World Drug Day was observed in Brussels on Thursday 26 June, at a European workshop on drug prevention for international diplomats and anti-drug professionals, that included the launch of...

DEMOCRACY, ISLAM AND CHRISTIANITY

 Larry Siedentop identifies democracy with Christianity. In so far as he equates civil society with Christianity, he would appear to be right. The conclusion follows that Islam and democracy are totally antithetical - and they are. (This doesn't mean that Muslim...

Reflections on Democracy and Violence

"The irrational individual enjoys complete liberty in a democracy to play out his irrationality; in the Palace polity, a culture of subordination as well as a bureaucratic hierarchy and notions of kingship work to restrain his impulses. It is argued here that the Holocaust,...

THE FREEDOM INDUSTRY AND STUDENT POLITICS IN BANGLADESH

The ‘freedom industry’ comprises a web of benefits distributed by western donors to developing countries in order to spread democracy.  Foreign donors have created a pseudo-civil society of NGOs. The principle function of aid money is to suppress unsavoury analyses and...

BA in Bloggology? University Thesis on Geocentric Blogging

Yes, blogging can too be academic! I am writing an undergraduate thesis on blogs and community building, and I want to know the connection between your life in the blogosphere and your experience of community...

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