The World Today

HEADNOTE Ten years ago, as the international community debated how to respond to Kofi Annan's call for a...

HEADNOTE The only safe prediction about Burma's future is that any prediction will probably be incorrect. fOR DECADES,...

HEADNOTE On December 5, foreign ministers from some ninety countries will converge on the Rhineland city of Bonn...

DEC 5 Seeking True Democracy: The Challenge and Promise of Full Equality for Women Democracy and Human Rights...

HUMANITARIAN NEGOTIATIONS REVEALED: THE MSF EXPERIENCE 'Humanitarian Negotiations Revealed - The MSF Experience' takes its title from its...

HEADNOTE When Indian and Brazilian citizens took to the streets this year in anti-corruption demonstrations, they were seeking...

HEADNOTE The Gleneagles summit of 2005 now seems a world away. Those proud calls to Make Poverty History...

HEADNOTE "Starting from scratch" - a term used widely over the summer to describe the challenges faced by...

HEADNOTE This time exactly ten years ago, in December 2001, the hunt for Osama bin Laden was on...

HEADNOTE Less than three years ago, Iraq occupied the attention of the world. With the sectarian conflict ending...