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By James Lazou, researcher on health for Unite the Union for Open Democracy A Commonwealth Fund survey found the UK health system topped the poll on just about every criteria – so why are the Tories wrecking it? After all…

By Milagros Salazar JEPELACIO, Peru, Jul 2 2014 (IPS) – He may look like a rapper, but 33-year-old José Antonio Bardález is the mayor of Jepelacio, in the Peruvian Amazon. His ingenious innovations in the municipality include transforming waste management…

By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan VISBY, Sweden—Sixty miles off the coast of Sweden, in the Baltic Sea, sits the island of Gotland. Every summer, for one week, tens of thousands flock here to participate in a unique public event…

Aiming to stem the tide of violent attacks and recrimination against Sri Lanka’s Muslim and Christian communities, a group of United Nations human rights experts on 2 July 2014 called on the Government to adopt urgent measures to stop the promotion of…

The tentacles of Spain’s Telefonica Movistar spread far and wide. I refer not only to the interests of their shareholders, such as banks BBVA and La Caixa, or close links with political power, and their “representatives” on the board, but…

Today the Global Media Forum organised by Deutsche Welle was inaugurated in the German city of Bonn, and Pressenza participated with a panel in which examples of social mobilisations, unfolding thanks to the creation of consciousness through new media in such…

Malabo, Jun 27 (Prensa Latina) A project to create an African Monetary Fund is among the proposals being presented by regional leaders attending the 23rd Summit of the African Union (AU), which concludes its sessions in Equatorial Guinea”s capital today.…

There were an estimated 50,000 people who made the march today [June 21, 2014], starting from Portland Place, The BBC headquarters, but nothing was known whether the BBC News would deign to report upon the demonstration against the ConDem [Coalition…

Buenos Aires, Jun 26 (Prensa Latina) The head of the Argentinian Cabinet, Jorge Capitanich, today thanked the international community for its increasing clear, strong, and longstanding support in his country´s fight against vulture funds. Capitanich highlighted the recent support given…

Even though the elections in the Solomon Islands of 2010 were relatively violence free, the scars of the riots of 2006 are still fresh. Now with new elections expected to take place in October or November of this year, there…