This article seeks to explain the process leading to WTO’s Tenth Ministerial Conference (WTO MC10). The next (final article in this series) will focus on the substance of negotiations. Of course, you cannot separate the process from the substance.

As we approach the final lap of the negotiations leading to the MC10 of the WTO, it is time to take stock of the situation. It is time to consider options before Africa and the developing countries as they confront the Empire in the Green Room.

Yves Engler’s latest book, which is entitled ‘Canada in Africa: 300 Years of Aid and Exploitation’, comprehensively details Canada’s role in exploiting Africa.

When I visited China in November 1958 as the guest of the Chinese Writers Union, China was just embarking on its huge programme of industrialisation.

The Government of India has recently come up with a National REDD+ policy. This short article mainly responds to that draft and the accompanying “Reference Document for REDD plus in India” (Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change, August 2013, hereafter RD).

Financialized policy is ubiquitous across a wide range of environmental policy areas, such as carbon trading or biodiversity offsets, but contributes little to averting climate catastrophe.

INTRODUCTION

Tanzania’s general elections were held on 25 October 2015 after about two months of electioneering. The ruling Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) emerged victorious in the Union elections with 58.49% of the presidential vote and a parliamentary majority.

The gruesome terrorist attacks in Paris have left the world shaken. Not only were the attacks carried out with the precision of a surgeon, they occurred in one of the world’s most loved and safest cities.

Elie Wiesel, the Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize laureate said, “There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.” I would add, “There must never be a time when we fail to protest the madness of politician wannabes and