Ingrida Kerusauskaite reports from the inaugural ‘One Young World’ summit on how young activists, with the guidance Kofi Annan and Desmond Tutu among others, plan on “changing the world”. They call themselves the ‘leaders of tomorrow’. 88 percent of over 500 ‘One Young World’ (OYW) delegates declared that they will change the world. ‘One Young... »

B.V. Dlamini, Deputy Secretary General of the Swaziland Federation of Trade Unions speaks to Ingrida Kerusauskaite about the way forward for Swaziland. What is the political situation in Swaziland? What does that mean to the citizens?The country is ruled under a dictatorship, where there is no separation of power: the judiciary, legislative and executive powers... »

My political involvement In March of 1988 I was involved in a protest march on Rangoon University campus, which ended with the arrest of many students, including myself. During the week of interrogation I was badly beaten and tortured, before being transferred to Insein jail for a month of incarceration. Upon my release, I joined the... »

At the Millennium Summit of the United Nations in September 2000, all 189 member states unanimously adopted the Millennium Declaration. They agreed upon a series of quantified and time-bound goals to reduce extreme poverty, disease and deprivation; the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). However, despite progress in some areas, it now seems unlikely that these... »

In September, twenty- thousand people in Sudan went out on the streets and walked barefoot, in silence, to raise awareness about the atrocities committed by the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) in Central Africa. A month later, International Refugee Trust (IRT) organized a replication of the demonstration in Central London. A petition for the protection of... »