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Dr Bertrand Ramcharan
Dr Bertrand Ramcharan

International and national policies on persons of African descent

By Dr Bertrand Ramcharan, Seventh Chancellor of the University of Guyana First Swiss Chair in International Human Rights Law, Geneva Graduate Institute In my offerings in these pages, I have endeavoured to draw attention to international policies and strategies that can contribute to the process of nation-building in a Guyana of diverse ethnicities.

A shared inheritance from natural resources?

By Simon Taylor, co-Founder & Board member of Global Witness, and co-Founder of Publish What You Pay; Saswati Svetlana, National Coordinator, Mineral Inheritors Rights Association, India; Mike McCormack, Director, Policy Forum Guyana; Patrick Bond, Distinguished Professor and Director of the Centre for Social Change, University of Johannesburg; and Rahul Basu, Research Director, Goa Foundation, India.

The collapse

This week during the third session of the Permanent Forum on People of African Descent in Geneva, Switzerland, is when journalist and media personality Wanita Huburn was attacked for sharing her opinion on Facebook about the government taking accountability for the incompetence of the Guyana Power and Light.

The Middle East needs a ceasefire now

By Daoud Kuttab JERUSALEM – It is hard to imagine that anyone in the Levant or the broader Middle East managed to sleep on Saturday night, as Iran launched hundreds of drones and ballistic missiles toward strategic sites in Israel and Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank.

Bullies

Dead children cold in their mothers’ arms. Permanently injured children held by fathers trying to hide their tears.

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