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FIFA’s World Cup Having a Ball With Child Labor
by Michelle Chen on June 11 2010, 10:42AM
South Africa is the center of world this week, kicking off the first-ever World Cup Games on the African continent. But as the cameras pan across green fields and lavish festivities, labor activists are keeping their eye on the ball….
Topics: Global Affairs
World Cup Kicks Off, African Coaches Don’t Make Cut
by Jamilah King on June 10 2010, 1:43PM
Here’s what you won’t see when this year’s World Cup kicks off this weekend in Johannesburg, South Africa: Black coaches leading African national teams. Of the six African national teams to make the tournament — more than ever before —…
Topics: Global Affairs
Today in Anti-Muslim Party Politics: Dutch Edition
by Michelle Chen on June 10 2010, 12:15PM
With the Tea Party making inroads in primaries across the country, you might think the rabid outbursts and vapid sloganeering are a peculiarly American phenomenon. But in fact, Thursday’s elections in the Netherlands show that the U.S. has no monopoly…
Topics: Global Affairs, Immigration
Obama and Abbas to Discuss, but Not Deal with Gaza Crisis
by Seth Freed Wessler on June 9 2010, 5:48PM
UPDATE 5:45 PM ET: Pres. Obama pledged $400 million in U.S. aid for the West Bank and Gaza today following a meeting with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. According to the White House, the aid will be used to build housing…
Topics: Global Affairs
Israel Rejects U.N. Inquiry; Four More Killed in Gaza Waters
by Julianne Hing on June 7 2010, 3:38PM
This morning, Israeli forces killed four men who were diving in the waters of the Gaza Strip. A Palestinian militant group claimed the men as its members and Israel Defense Force spokespeople said the four men were “on their way…
Topics: Global Affairs
The Gaza Blockade is the Real Problem
by Hagai El-Ad on June 4 2010, 12:00PM
An Israeli human rights advocate says the flotilla raid is but the latest reason why the siege is as self-defeating as it is inhumane.
Topics: Global Affairs
Images From Behind the Gaza Blockade
by Hatty Lee on June 4 2010, 12:00PM
Almost 1.5 million people struggle for basic necessities.
Topics: Global Affairs
Another Ship Heads to Gaza, Israel Again Vows to Protect Blockade
by Seth Freed Wessler on June 4 2010, 10:00AM
A new ship is headed to Gaza today, and the Israeli government has once again vowed to stop the vessel. The boat, which flies the Irish flag, is named the Rachel Corrie, after the young American student crushed to death…
Topics: Global Affairs
Will American’s Death in Gaza Flotilla Change U.S. Stance on Israel?
by Seth Freed Wessler on June 3 2010, 11:50AM
An American citizen is reported to be among the 9 people killed by Israeli solders aboard a flotilla of ships headed to Gaza on Monday. Turkish investigators have identified one of the bodies flown from Israel to Turkey yesterday as…
Topics: Global Affairs
Israel, Gaza and the ‘Lynching’ of Morality
by Seth Freed Wessler on June 2 2010, 12:00PM
The U.S. conversation about Israeli violence is still bound by false equivalencies and feigned victimhood.
Topics: Global Affairs
American Occupation Casts Long Shadows Over Okinawa
by Michelle Chen on June 1 2010, 9:06AM
On Memorial Day, America honored its war dead. Across the Pacific Ocean, the ghosts of war continue to haunt the coastline of Japan, now awash in political angst over the military base on the island of Okinawa. Last week, the…
Topics: Global Affairs
U.S. Brings Drug War to Jamaica, Death Toll Up to 50
by Julianne Hing on May 26 2010, 10:58AM
Police patrol the streets outside the neighborhood of Tivoli Gardens in Kingston. REUTERS/Andrew P. Smith Efforts to extradite an alleged Jamaican drug lord to the United States have led to a violent standoff between civilians and armed forces in…
Topics: Global Affairs
Aid for Haiti Moving Through Senate In Fits and Starts
by Julianne Hing on May 24 2010, 2:14PM
Four months after the earthquake in Haiti, Congress is still debating best practices for how to help the country recover. Tomorrow, the Senate foreign relations panel will consider a bill by Senators John Kerry and Bob Corker that calls $3.5…
Topics: Global Affairs, Politics
U.S. Drug War Sparks Violence in Jamaica
by Julianne Hing on May 24 2010, 1:57PM
The United States’ efforts to extradite an alleged Jamaican drug lord—said by some to be the most powerful man in the country—has set off a firestorm in the Caribbean. Jamaican Prime Minister Bruce Golding declared a state of emergency yesterday…
Topics: Global Affairs
Lessons from Cochabamba on Borders, Labels and Justice
by Michelle Chen on April 22 2010, 5:50PM
It’s fitting that migration has been a major focus at the World People’s Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth, which brought thousands from all around the world to gather and discuss the racial, socioeconomic and…
Topics: Environment, Global Affairs, Immigration
White House Footage of Michelle Obama in Haiti
by Jorge Rivas on April 19 2010, 7:24PM
Last Tuesday, First Lady Michelle Obama and Dr. Jill Biden met Haiti relief workers and Haitian President Rene Preval to reiterate U.S. support to rebuilding efforts in the country. “I think this is a really good time for us to…
Topics: Global Affairs, Haiti
Abandoning Justice for Power in South Africa
by Michelle Chen on April 19 2010, 8:00AM
South Africa has been struggling for over a decade to overcome the vestiges of apartheid, and to this day is constantly challenged by racial conflict and socioeconomic inequality. And as if there weren’t enough obstacles strewn in the country’s rocky…
Topics: Environment, Global Affairs
Lessons of Rage in South Africa
by Michelle Chen on April 6 2010, 6:16PM
The 69 year-old white supremacist leader Eugene Terre’Blanche, the notorious founder of the ultra-right Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB) of South Africa, recently died a gruesome death. Authorities say the gory beating and hacking, allegedly at the hands of two farmworkers, was…
Topics: Global Affairs, Politics
Activists Call for HIV/AIDS Relief for Haiti
by Jamilah King on April 1 2010, 12:37PM
While over 100 countries and international aid organizations pledged $10 billion to Haitian reconstruction yesterday, New York City religious and health groups teamed up with Haitian AIDS activists to call attention to what they’re calling the “failure” of AIDS…
Topics: Global Affairs, Health
Haiti Promised $10 Billion in Aid. Who’ll Spend It?
by Seth Freed Wessler on April 1 2010, 10:46AM
Yesterday’s UN meeting of governments and international organizations on aid to Haiti ended with a $10 billion pledge. The funds will be committed to development that may dramatically restructure the country’s human geography and physical infrastructure by focusing on urban…
Topics: Global Affairs
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