Global IssuesAnnouncement of new and updated content on the globalissues.org web site. GlobalIssues.org is a web site attempting to look at various global issues to show they are inter-related.UN World Summit Outcome- September 18, 2005 Many criticized the final outcome document from the UN World Summit as being watered down and weak. A lot of blame, both in the mainstream media, and from development organizations, has been placed at the United States for having proposed such an aggressive set changes in the first place (such as initially wanting to strike out all mention of the Millennium Development Goals, which was supposed to be the primary focus of the meeting itself!). But other countries also expressed reservations on...http://www.globalissues.org/TradeRelated/Poverty/unworldsummit2005.asp $255 billion is lost each year to governments around the world because of the no or low taxation of funds in offshore centres- September 14, 2005 Offshore tax havens allow multinational companies, rich individuals, corrupt leaders, criminals and terrorists to move or hide money. To put this in perspective, the losses each year are more than the UN Millennium Project goal of reaching $195 billion in aid levels by 2015 to help halve world poverty within a decade and prevent millions of unnecessary deaths in poor countries.http://www.globalissues.org/TradeRelated/Corporations/Evasion.asp Hurricane Katrina- September 13, 2005 The devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina in southern parts of the United States has been immense. Amidst personally moving stories of loss and suffering, of heroic individuals and communities, this tragedy revealed a number of other issues and there has been a lot of criticism at the Bush Administration for not doing enough quickly. The mainstream media itself seems to have become more bold in its criticisms as well, which has been unexpected.http://www.globalissues.org/envissues/disasters/katrina.asp UN Oil for Food Scandal and Myths- September 12, 2005 The United Nations Oil for Food program in Iraq during half the period of crippling sanctions has often made mainstream news in recent months, as reports of corruption and oil smuggling by Saddam Hussein have surfaced. Common themes in the reporting have been to blame the entire UN for policies of the UN Security Council, to blame the Oil for Food program for most of the billions stolen by Saddam Hussein, to blame Kofi Annan for the whole mess, or even point to the programs supposed lack of...http://www.globalissues.org/Geopolitics/MiddleEast/Iraq/Sanctions.asp |