A report published in the summer of 2011 by the United Nations Office on Drug and Crime asserts that somewhere between 24% to 39% of illicit amphetamine-type stimulants (ATS) worldwide are consumed in East and Southeast Asia, where in particular are “now ranked among the top-three drugs of use in every single one of the [...]
Yu David Liu, a computer scientist from Binghamton University in Binghamton New York, has ideas for developing more energy-efficient software in today’s modern technology. Liu received an award from the National Science Foundation’s Faculty Early Career Development Program, and a five year grant for nearly half a million dollars to further his investigation in energy [...]
In May 2010, six months after an earthquake destroyed Haiti, the American multinational Monsanto donated the country 60 tons of corn and vegetable hybrid seed. The United States International Development Agency (USAID) took charge of the seed distribution. A month later, the 4th of June of 2010, around 10,000 Haitian farmers demonstrated against Monsanto’s donation. [...]
People’s Permanent Tribunal condemns the actions of these multinationals Dozens of NGOs and organizations defending the rights of indigenous people have accused three big oil companies of disregarding the rights of the indigenous peoples of the North of the Peruvian Amazon. The explorations and projects that these companies are carrying out in the so-called Blocks [...]
The delegate of the Basque Government in Chile and Peru, Ana Urchueguía, owns at least five properties in the Nicaraguan Department of Madriz, whose capital is Somoto. The properties acquired by Urchueguía while she was Mayor of the Basque town of Lasarte-Oria, include a country house of nearly one million square meters which she bought [...]
According to a report from The Insight Center for Community Economic Development, women of color possess a wealth of approximately $100 compared to white men and women with over $40,000. The situation is direr for single women of color, of whom almost half have no or negative wealth. Tim Grant of The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette—the only [...]
Last month Supachai Panitchpakdi, The Secretary General of the UN Conference on Trade and Development reported that Global poverty had doubled since 1970 and that the amount of people living in extreme poverty “increased by three million people per year during the boom years of 2002 and 2007,” which makes a total of 421 million [...]
Clinton promised $6 million of investment in Angolan agriculture through a partnership with USAID and Chevron, the second-largest US oil company. Despite billions of dollars in oil wealth, Angola ranks among the worlds lowest in terms of development indicators. The corruption watchdog group Global Witness revealed Angolan state oil company had given permission to bid for oil and gas licenses to [...]
Senator David Vitter is standing in the way of Obama’s nomination of Paul Anastas to be initiated into the EPA’s office of Research and Development. Anastas’ specialty rests in researching the design of safer chemicals and chemical processes to replace hazardous substances. The formaldehyde industry is placed under extreme risk with his nomination. Senator David Vitter’s position on this issue [...]
