January 11th marked the 100th anniversary of the birth of Pierre Mendes France (1907-1982), a man held in high esteem by the founding editor of Toward Freedom , Bill Lloyd, and Homer Jack who was an early writer for TF and whose TF study on the Bandong Conference was an important contribution to raising awareness of the growing Asian-African movement of decolonization.(1)
Never before has such a small percentage of an estimated 1.6 million Muslims living in the U.K, been seen as the root cause for the failures in integration. Yet, Muslim women wearing the veil, (niqāb), are increasingly blamed for the apparent social dysfunction in society. But is this really about community 'separation'? Is the niqāb responsible for the 'difficulty' in fostering positive community relations? Or is there a real danger for the nation to fall in line with the vision of a secular 'apartheid' Europe?
The police crackdown against peaceful demonstrators on the night of October 23, 2006, shows that there is very little difference between the past and the present.
This month, a highly controversial European law came into effect that raises concerns about our fundamental right to privacy.
The president of Azerbaijan, Ilhan Aliyev, son of the long-time president Heydar Aliyev and Robert Kocharian, president of Armenia, met outside Paris, in Rambouillet February 10-11, 2006 to discuss the stalemated conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh. Rambouillet had also been the scene for the last-chance negotiations on Kosovo just before the NATO bombing of Serbia began in 1999.
As the negative effects of globalization make their impact, many people are questioning the influence of corporations on society. In terms of education, this has become quite a sensitive subject. In many ways, the uneasy relationship between schools and corporations mirrors the larger debate of corporate influence within society as a whole.
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