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The exercise of grassroots democracy, however, need not focus on the state and its formal institutions. The role of the state is not intrinsic to the practice of grassroots democracy.

Scarcity of fuel in several departments - Ill-treatment of Haitians in the DR - 22 women murdered by gangs - $20 million for the fight against cholera - Minister Manigats tour...

Haitian organizations organized a rally at the Brazilian embassy to declare their support for the progressive candidate Lula da Silva in the upcoming elections

Raise Tobacco Tax To Deter Children, Youth From Smoking - VALD

The Vision for Alternative Development (VALD), a civil society organisation has called for a review of the Ghana’s current tobacco control laws to a comprehensive Smoke-free law by eliminating the designated smoking areas from the regulations. It also urged for the review of the present tax regime from Ad-valerom to…

The Ghanaian government has been urged to implement a tobacco tax as part of measures to reduce the rate of crime associated with the trade and excessive use of tobacco while boosting revenue for health and development. The current survey conducted by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) indicates that…

The Women’s Institute for Alternative Development (WINAD) describes the unfolding debacle of former attorney general Faris Al-Rawi making deals with a criminal as “most vexing” and an affront to the constitution.

New Age, a Dhaka-based leading English language daily newspaper, is a major source of news of Bangladesh and international affairs

Gélin Buteau (Haiti), Guede with Drum, ca. 1995. At the United Nations General Assembly on 24 September 2022, Haiti’s Foreign Minister Jean Victor Geneus admitted that his country faces a serious crisis, which he said ‘can only be solved with the effective support of our partners’. To many close observers of the situation unfolding in

Prime Minister Henrys official request to his international partners to immediately deploy a specialized armed force aimed at « [...] stopping, throughout the territory, the humanitarian crisis caused, among other things, by insecurity...