The fall of the Berlin Wall kick-started the return of rogue economics. This is not a new phenomenon; on the contrary, it is part of our history. It is a force constantly lurking in the background of progress.

We live in the era of the global commons, but very few have actually met their neighbors – except as subalterns: household maids, hotel service-workers, nannies, most likely college-educated women from the Philippines.

The report also charts the significant international and national progress in reducing and preventing forced labor, but warns of the possible negative impacts of the global economic and jobs crisis on efforts to eliminate it.

Because of climate change, within the lifetime of children alive today it’s entirely possible that Australia’s wonderful beaches and the lower lying areas of our coastal cities will have disappeared beneath rising sea levels, and the Great Barrier Reef will be a vast, lifeless and eroding ruin.

JOHANNESBURG, 8 May 2009 (PlusNews) – At a time when many Americans are preoccupied with the economic crisis on their doorsteps, President Barack Obama has asked Congress to approve US$63 billion for global health over the next six years.

HAVANA, Cuba, May 9 (acn) Cuba and Vietnam signed in this capital an agreement that allows the Caribbean nation to acquire 5,120,000 polypropylene bags to pack sugar.

HAVANA, Cuba, May 5 (acn) Alejandro Moreno, Cuba’s Ambassador to the United Nations, said that the Non Aligned Movement (NAM) believes the opportunity to achieve nuclear disarmament is within sight, after the issue was ignored for a long time by some of the most important countries.

WASHINGTON, April 22 (Xinhua) -- The International Monetary Fund on Wednesday warned that the global economy was in "a severe recession" and the world output is projected to decline 1.3 percent this year, the deepest global recession since the Great Depression in 1930s.

A major United Nations anti-racism conference opened Monday in Geneva despite a boycott from the United States and several western countries owing to concern over a possible criticism on Israel.

RIO DE JANEIRO, 20 April 2009 (PlusNews) - Men don't cry. Men take risks. Men don't ask for help. Men are strong. Men have many sexual partners. These stereotypes of masculinity are contributing to the spread of HIV throughout the world, experts warned at a recent symposium on men and boys.

In a report presented last February in Geneva by former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Mary Robinson, the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) called upon President Barack Obama to put an end to the violations of human rights that have been a part of United States policy since the September 11, 2001 attacks.

A 2007 assessment by the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) predicts that orangutans will be virtually eliminated in the wild within two decades if current deforestation trends continue.

In April 2007, South Korea and the US reached a controversial free trade arrangement after fourteen months of negotiations. Unions and other organizations representing South Korean workers and farmers, supported by the local social democrats, consider the deal a threat to South Korean jobs, and their industries as a whole.

At the first round of climate change talks in Bonn, Germany, a delegate from the Philippines noted that the Christmas bonus of a Wall Street banker was higher than the amount of money allocated to the Least Developed Countries Fund (LDCF).

The monthly anti-nuclear weapons action on April 6 was special as it took place immediately after U.S. President Barack Obama's statement that "the United States has a moral responsibility" to work for the abolition of nuclear weapons.

As President Obama begins his first European tour this week, starting with the G20 economic summit, he's finding that much of the rest of the world has suddenly become quite uppity.

An unchecked race to militarize space is underway that is “increasing the risk of an accidental nuclear war while shortening the time for sanity and diplomacy to come into play to halt crises,” an authority on space warfare says.

Because of the election of Barack Obama, the American people in their great majority have a leg up, but there is still a long way to go. To his credit, the new president is off to a quick start. In less than three months in office he has...

Leaders of G-20 countries will meet in London on April 2 to discuss ways to respond to the global financial and economic crises. At issue is how to strengthen international oversight and regulation of financial institutions.

The oldest and most prevalent source of renewable energy known to man, biomass is already a mainstay of energy production in the United States and elsewhere. Since such a wide variety of biomass resources is available biomass promises to play a continuing role in providing power and heat for millions of people around the world.