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Forty years ago Richard Nixon declared a war on drugs in a crusade for a drug-free world. But this war has proven to be a dismal failure which has perpetuated the damages caused by drugs to people and to society as a whole. Breaking the Taboo tells that story.
While many countries are slogging through a tough fiscal time, there is some good news, including in the United States where the deficit will be lower this year than previously expected.
We are now in a new phase of the crisis -- the political phase -- and tough political decisions need to be made. Time is of the essence.
LEAP has been invited to partner with Rio schools to tell how providing poor children with access to a great education can help to break the cycle of poverty.
The international community may have begun to recognize that incremental steps in the right direction are better than acrimonious debates over unachievable targets
Carbon pollution from fossil fuel use reached the highest level yet in 2010, according to the International Energy Agency. So should we throw up our hands?
More than empty rhetoric and business as usual, Via Campesina plans to arrive at Rio+20 armed with their grievances as well as solutions.
When Barack Obama was running for president he committed to leading the United Nations and other countries towards a common global goal. Since becoming president, Obama has failed to convince the UN to follow his lead.
The clamor from non-European nations is now for the new IMF managing director to be drawn from an emerging market nation. That's fine, so long as the person is selected for their competence.
Brazil's biofuel drama is a reminder that solutions packaged in green wrappers fail to scale with billions facing starvation in the Americas, Africa and Asia.
It would be a mistake to see this court ruling as a mere victory for a tiny cohort (partnered couples) within a tiny minority (LGBT citizens). Brazil's ruling is important because it declares that rights granted to one citizen cannot be denied to any other.
Perched atop 750-foot Urca Mountain beside Rio's signature granite monolith, Sugarloaf Mountain, Abencoada stocks 50 different kinds of cachaca. Cachaca was once seen as a poor man's beverage. But, no longer.
London. Johannesburg and Nairobi. Fort Worth, St. Louis and San Diego. Tokyo and Manhattan. And Astoria. What do they all have in common? Well, let's see... Matthew Peipert.
The so-called BRIC nations -- Brazil, Russia, India and China -- could be a game changer for how low-income countries build their economic futures.
Can Brazil come into its own as a global power without leaving a trail of destruction, inequality and irreversible environmental damage in its wake? As the world watches, only time will tell.
