Gender inequality in the working world is something that is lamentably deeply rooted in our societies. The global economic crisis is making it worse.
How the global economic crisis is affecting the working woman
The ILO reveals that the number of unemployed women could increase by 22 million in 2009
Posted by Raquel Sánchez Bujaldón, 26th March 2009
The Human Rights situation: a distressing outlook
Without leadership, multilateralism rhetoric goes nowhere
Posted by Ferran Requejo, 5th March 2009
From the latest independent reports regarding human rights emerge the cases of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, with a serious failure to ensure them, and Spain (like other liberal democracies) with specific cases of failure to ensure them.
- Climate Change: A New Source of Armed Conflict
por Mabel González Bustelo
Obama’s ethical warnings
The United States starts to bring back social discourse
Posted by Bernardo Kliksberg, 25th February 2009
It is impossible to understand or act on the intense collapse of the American and global economy without taking the ethical failures into consideration.
Where is the condemnation from the moderate Muslims?
The terrorist massacre in India
Posted by Martin Varsavsky, 19th December 2008
Why can’t the hundreds of millions of moderate Muslims in the world organize a protest against Al Qaeda, against Osama Bin Laden, against what is today in India being falsely carried out in the name of Islam?
How to get over the fear of the future
We can help improve the quality of our world and our lives
Posted by Nelson Pilosof, 19th December 2008
We fear losing what we have, what we have achieved as a personal and familial fulfillment. We fear falling into poverty or destitution, the irruption of an unknown world bereft of any referential precedents, whose sole insinuation becomes unbearable. How can we get over this?
The G-20′s prescription: reform, not a break with the past
Understand the general conclusions of the economic summit in Washington
Posted by José Catalán Deus, 27th November 2008
With the overblown headlines and triumphant images having just faded away, it is necessary to analyze in detail the general strategy and tactical work plan to come out of the global summit held to calm the financial chaos and the global recession.
- Ten key answers, following the Lehman Brothers' bankruptcy
por Diego Fonseca
Obama, caught between promises and reality
What must the president elect of the United States do in order to avoid an economic meltdown?
Posted by José Luis Martínez, 20th November 2008
Obama is banking on dialog and change. There will be reforms, but not those that many are imagining. The permanent and changing reality will impose a pragmatic agenda that will go beyond his good intentions.
The G-20 and the international financial crisis
Have we been sentenced to capitalism, or is this an opportunity for complete change?
Posted by Darío Helman, 20th November 2008
The author says that, while many people are expecting the current world crisis to lead to the sounding of capitalism’s death knoll, others will try to look for new ideas to revive the market pull, improve and innovate, and promote the creation of wealth.
Where will the next conflicts take place?
From the (happy) American unipolarity to a world filled with uncertainties
Posted by Ferran Requejo, 20th November 2008
The twenty first century has brought with it an outlook very different from the one of happy optimism present in the 1990s; we are looking at a new phase of power redistribution, in which there are already points of possible conflict among the hegemonic powers.
