A new initiative was launched this week to fight human trafficking globally. ”This is the largest initiative ever launched of this sort,” said the executive director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Antonio Maria Costa, in an interview. ”It is meant to create a framework for the other disjointed initiatives which have taken place so far.”
Britain is painting a misleadingly flattering picture of its commitments to do more in the fight against poverty in Africa, a leading development group said on Tuesday. ”The British government is very good at PR, at spinning what really is going on,” said Peter Hardstaff from the World Development Movement.
When rock star Bob Geldof named his new aid concert Live 8, everyone knew who the real audience would be. And when he timed the five simultaneous concerts for July 2, just days before the G8 summit to be held at Gleneagles in Scotland, he removed all doubts that the audience would not be the millions who would attend or watch the concerts, but eight leaders in a Scottish retreat.
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/ 25 November 2003
The Commonwealth hasn’t done badly on human rights — on paper that is. The Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (Chogm) in Abuja will seek to transfer at least some of those rights on to the street where they are needed.