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Lobbyists at risk of UN AIDS syndrome
IPN Opinion article
Copenhagen should not produce a UN climate change agency - the history of UNAIDS shows why.
UN Disarms Weapon of Malarial Destruction
IPN Opinion article
DDT is much-demonised by superstitious Westerners but it has saved millions of lives all over the world (including the USA and Europe) and continues to save lives in Africa. But not for much longer: the WHO's reluctant acceptance of DDT in 2006 has been reversed in favour of a range of human experiments using poor people as guinea-pigs.
Blame bad rules, not bad capitalism
IPN Opinion article
Everyone has something to say about the credit crunch but very few can explain simply what it's all about and where to go next: this well-published economist does that.
Malaria - Killing With Kindness
IPN Opinion article
Following the failure of the UN's Roll Back Malaria programme, the name has changed and more billions have been promised this week in the hope of eradicating the disease by 2015. But Band-Aid measures cannot make any sustainable change until African governments allow their people to improve their own lot, by lifting the economic (and political) repression that keeps them poor.
Mugabe overstretches voters' patience
IPN Opinion article
The 18th of April is Zimbabwe's Day of Independence but, after throwing off white rule, we have still not overthrown one-man rule.
Lessons from Kenya's stolen election
IPN Opinion article
Amid the reams of reporting and speculation about the Kenyan elections, this Zimbabwean opposition figure shows how his party's experience can be used in a practical way to avoid violence and to shame and pressure governments which have manipulated elections. Outsiders and even Africans are often prone to despair about Africa's future, but David Coltart points to progress in peaceful regime change in a number of countries.
