Hillary Clinton
Marginalised populations still drawing the short straw on HIV
Throughout the course of the last week, I have been learning a lot about HIV in the US and I have to say that I have found some of the statistics really frightening. The US has just over one million people living with HIV – the highest number in the developed world – and according to some sources, an American is infected every 10 minutes.
By Winnie Ssanyu Sseruma | Health, Notebook | Tuesday, 24 July 2012 at 12:07 pm
Better use of technology could lead to more open government
Governments around the world should take a page from online business’s book to provide better access, accountability and services for their citizens.
By Stephen King | Notebook, Science & Technology | Thursday, 3 May 2012 at 10:40 am
Building bonds with fragile states
Global leaders and diplomats, including Ban Ki Moon and Hillary Clinton met last week in Busan, South Korea to discuss the effectiveness of international development aid. The problem is that current aid models- which are largely based on grants and loans to developing country governments- may be well-intentioned, but have often failed to deliver results.
By Blair Glencorse and Isaac Matzner | Eagle Eye, Econoblog | Thursday, 8 December 2011 at 11:30 am
Bill Clinton’s dangerous game
Things are not going well for President Obama. His ratings are low – in fact latest polls show he would lose the next presidential election to a Republican nominee – and the economy is tanking. This week he described himself as “used to being an underdog”.
You’d think he would find some crumbs of comfort from [...]
By Anne Penketh | The Foreign Desk | Wednesday, 5 October 2011 at 12:32 am
What the ambassador forgot
The US is all over the place in its country-by-country response to the Arab Spring. Here support for military action, there a slap across the wrists – and in some cases simply silence.
In Syria, US Ambassador Robert Ford goes to Hama, the centre of the pro-democracy uprising against the brutal Assad. But in Iraq, US [...]
By Lord Corbett | Notebook | Thursday, 14 July 2011 at 2:53 pm
Spinning their wheels or driving change?
The women of Saudi Arabia are again challenging the ban that prevents them from obtaining driver’s license. Over the weekend approximately 50 women around the Gulf nation took to the wheel, some making videos of themselves and posting them on YouTube.
By Caitlin McDonald | The Foreign Desk | Tuesday, 21 June 2011 at 1:08 pm
Liberals should resist the macho politics game
It’s, of course, deeply satisfying to see the disgusting demagogues of the American right lost for words. And it’s, of course, a good thing that a terrorist psycopath like Bin Laden has been taken out of action. But it’s dangerous for liberals to promote the narrative that dispatching bad guys burnishes a leader’s credentials.
“This stuff would be really interesting if …”
As may be apparent from my column in The Independent on Sunday today, Peter Mandelson’s The Third Man was Another Book I Read On My Holidays. It really is very good, and I’ll return to it later (meanwhile, do read Donald Macintyre’s review here).
But I also read Race of a Lifetime: How Obama Won the [...]
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Sunday, 29 August 2010 at 9:17 pm
Harold Wilson’s peace pipe hits South America
Harold Wilson’s skill in fostering the United Kingdom’s early involvement in the European Community as well as his initial attempts to mediate the Vietnam War would have made him a handy man to have around South America at the moment.
One lasting legacy Wilson left us is the immortal words, “a week is a long time [...]
By Tim Sturtridge | The Foreign Desk | Wednesday, 11 August 2010 at 11:13 pm
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