http://blogs.independent.co.uk| Blogs from the Independent newspaper - news, views and features from the world's most free-thinking newspaper| Tue, 21 May 2013 15:25:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2| en hourly 1 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/07/02/adopting-an-effective-arms-trade-treaty-a-humanitarian-imperative/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/07/02/adopting-an-effective-arms-trade-treaty-a-humanitarian-imperative/#comments Mon, 02 Jul 2012 03:00:03 +0000 Sir Nicholas Young http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=25822 In many parts of the world, weapons are easy to obtain and armed violence is pervasive as a result of the poorly regulated international trade in conventional arms]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/07/02/adopting-an-effective-arms-trade-treaty-a-humanitarian-imperative/feed/ 2 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/06/26/not-another-live-aid/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/06/26/not-another-live-aid/#comments Mon, 25 Jun 2012 23:00:52 +0000 Sarah Mulley http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=25643 Next year will be crucial for the UK’s international development policy. With the UK in the G8 chair and David Cameron co-chairing a UN committee that will oversee the setting of new global development goals, the UK once again has an opportunity to shape international action against poverty.]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/06/26/not-another-live-aid/feed/ 3 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/06/19/women-under-siege-the-use-of-rape-as-a-weapon-of-war-in-syria/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/06/19/women-under-siege-the-use-of-rape-as-a-weapon-of-war-in-syria/#comments Tue, 19 Jun 2012 16:30:46 +0000 Dr Sima Barmania http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=25466 One organisation is working to document, highlight and publicise sexualised violence in Syria.]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/06/19/women-under-siege-the-use-of-rape-as-a-weapon-of-war-in-syria/feed/ 64 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/06/11/obamas-legacy-doesnt-live-up-to-the-terms-of-his-nobel-prize/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/06/11/obamas-legacy-doesnt-live-up-to-the-terms-of-his-nobel-prize/#comments Mon, 11 Jun 2012 03:03:44 +0000 Chris Pleasance http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=25023 As Obama nears the end of his first term as President, Chris Pleasance says he has done little to live up to the terms of the Nobel Peace Prize. Instead, his is a legacy of continued war, questionable drone strikes and pandering to hawkish neocons.]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/06/11/obamas-legacy-doesnt-live-up-to-the-terms-of-his-nobel-prize/feed/ 99 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/06/08/syria-why-is-the-world-just-watching/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/06/08/syria-why-is-the-world-just-watching/#comments Fri, 08 Jun 2012 16:56:03 +0000 Dr Sima Barmania http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=25068 We are sitting around watching the Syrian crisis, while evil is allowed to flourish. Dr. Sima Barmania tells us why this is unacceptable, and has a conversation with one of Assad's old teachers, Dr. Mousa Al Kurdi.]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/06/08/syria-why-is-the-world-just-watching/feed/ 208 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/05/17/the-dark-side-of-the-olympics-orbit/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/05/17/the-dark-side-of-the-olympics-orbit/#comments Thu, 17 May 2012 03:00:24 +0000 Refik Hodzic http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=24269 AreclorMittal, the sponsors of Anish Kapoor's "Orbit" at the London 2012 Olympic Games, has been accused of not letting the survivors of Bosnia's Omarska death camp, now a mine, memorialise their dead. In doing so, they are playing into the hands of nationalists who deny or manipulate the past.]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/05/17/the-dark-side-of-the-olympics-orbit/feed/ 56 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/03/22/child-brides-let-down-by-the-un-commission/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/03/22/child-brides-let-down-by-the-un-commission/#comments Thu, 22 Mar 2012 17:30:15 +0000 Allyson McKinney and Adam Short http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=22565 Every three seconds around the world, a girl under the age of 18 is forced into marriage. ]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/03/22/child-brides-let-down-by-the-un-commission/feed/ 1 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/02/22/odd-futures-true-legacy/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/02/22/odd-futures-true-legacy/#comments Wed, 22 Feb 2012 10:29:28 +0000 Musa Okwonga http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=21730 Odd Future have done me a favour. I was watching "Rella", the new video by the Californian rap outfit, and there it was, at 1:22: a smack delivered to a woman's face so hard that her head snapped to one side.]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/02/22/odd-futures-true-legacy/feed/ 9 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2011/11/02/palestine-joins-the-us-withdraws-funding/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2011/11/02/palestine-joins-the-us-withdraws-funding/#comments Wed, 02 Nov 2011 16:46:20 +0000 Richard Sudan http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=18211 In a move indicative of the US’s unwavering support for Israeli policy, the Obama administration has announced that US funding will be withdrawn from USECO the cultural and educational agency of the UN (United Nations) following the Palestinians’ successful bid to join the branch of the UN.]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2011/11/02/palestine-joins-the-us-withdraws-funding/feed/ 241 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2011/03/22/war-is-peace-a-reply/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2011/03/22/war-is-peace-a-reply/#comments Tue, 22 Mar 2011 10:40:54 +0000 Oliver Duggan http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=10257 Here we go again. As military operations wind down in Iraq and the consistent trickle of casualties in Afghanistan are over-shadowed by the thousands drowned in Japan and the hundreds battered in Northern Africa,  the anti-war protesters need a new hook from which to hang their banner. So, in the name of shouting loudest, reasoned [...]]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2011/03/22/war-is-peace-a-reply/feed/ 47 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2010/09/12/too-beautiful-to-help-the-poor/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2010/09/12/too-beautiful-to-help-the-poor/#comments Sun, 12 Sep 2010 18:22:37 +0000 Ilona Burton http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=4204 Angelina Jolie - love her or hate her - has been splashed across headlines again, pictured wearing a dark veil on her recent visit to Pakistan to meet with the president and view for herself the widespread devastation caused by floods.]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2010/09/12/too-beautiful-to-help-the-poor/feed/ 7 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2010/06/16/ronson-bp-mcsweeneys-and-more/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2010/06/16/ronson-bp-mcsweeneys-and-more/#comments Tue, 15 Jun 2010 23:00:23 +0000 Rob Sharp http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=1438 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2010/06/16/ronson-bp-mcsweeneys-and-more/feed/ 0