More than 100,000 people in rural India have benefited from an innovative loan scheme that helps families buy home solar power systems, the UN has said.

The $1.5m project, led by the UN Environment Programme (Unep), supports Indian bankers who offer finance to people who want to purchase a unit.

The UK consumes more confectionery than any other country in the world, almost £4 billion (or £63 per year per person). 70% of the cocoa comes from West Africa. However, many West African cocoa growers live in severe poverty, earning less than £170 a year.

OPEN THOSE EYES…
 
IN SKY
IN THE EARTH
IN YOURSELF
IN HISTORY
BUT THAT EYE ON A MICROSCOPE
THEN A TELESCOPE
GO TO HUBBLE TELESCOPE SITE …YES GO!!
                    
THE KNOWLEDGE OF YAKEEN
IS NOT EQUAL
TO THE EYE OF YAKEEN
 

This War is a Fraud

By John Pilger,
November 1, 2001

The war against terrorism is a fraud. After three weeks' bombing, not a single terrorist implicated in the attacks on America has been caught or killed in Afghanistan.

Oh, if a tree could wander
And move with foot and wings!
It would not suffer the axe blows
And not the pain of saws!
For would the sun not wander
Away in every night ?
How could at every morning
The world be lighted up?
And if the ocean’s water
Would not rise to the sky,
How would the plants be quickened

Cholera and the Age of the Water Barons
The explosive growth of three private water utility companies in the last 10 years raises fears that mankind may be losing control of its most vital resource to a handful of monopolistic corporations. In Europe and North America
http://www.publicintegrity.org/water/

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The World Bank is one of the two Bretton Woods Institutions which were created in 1944 to rebuild a war-torn Europe after World War II. Later, largely due to the contributions of the Marshall Plan,

Debt is an efficient tool. It ensures access to other peoples’ raw materials and infrastructure on the cheapest possible terms

Many developing nations are in debt and poverty partly due to the policies of international institutions such as the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank.

United States President Bill Clinton signed the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (‘Rome Statute’) on December 31 December 2000, the last day that the Rome Statute was open for signature. Shortly after the Bush Administration entered office and just before the 1 July 2002 entry into force of the Rome Statute, US President George W.

The global actions of the United States since September 11, 2001, are often seen as constituting a “new militarism” and a “new imperialism.” Yet, neither militarism nor imperialism is new to the United States, which has been an expansionist power—continental, hemispheric, and global—since its inception.

By Marie Woolf
The Independent UK

Colin Powell tells Pakistan's General Musharraf that he will help solve the problem of Kashmir. Tony Blair offers Yasser Arafat the vision of a Palestinian state. But should we take them at their word? History shows that assurances made in wartime aren't always everything they seem
17 October 2001