NOVANEWS ICIJ Rajesh Makwana Establishing a globally agreed tax body under the auspices of the United Nations and putting an end to dubious tax avoidance activities would bolster government revenues and help finance the provision […]
NOVANEWS By: Richard Seymour The website of the Mossack Fonseca law firm is pictured through a large format lens in Bad Honnef, Germany | Photo: Reuters. Tax resistance on the part of the rich, a […]
NOVANEWS by Dr: Richard Falk “I solemnly swear to exercise in all loyalty, discretion and conscience the functions entrusted to me as Secretary-General of the United Nations, to discharge these functions and regulate my conduct with […]
NOVANEWS By Sajjad Shaukat Although rampant corruption in Pakistan has continued by damaging the social and institutional fabric of the country, yet it has again come into limelight, after the massive leak of secret documents from Panama-based […]
NOVANEWS By John Chuckman In truth, there is no such thing as a right. The last three centuries or so of European history developed the concept and fixed it in our minds as something real […]
NOVANEWS MNT Judy Gitau In almost every nation, punitive drug policies have the greatest impact on women who are already coping with poverty and social neglect, histories of physical and sexual violence, and marginalization. The […]
Anthony Banbury In the run-up to the election of a new secretary general this year, it is essential that governments think carefully about what they want out of the United Nations. The organization is a […]
NOVANEWS Frank Watkins There is no question whether the Bank’s institutionalized, widespread and sustained racial discrimination and systemic denial of due process against an entire group of people is a crime. Whether it is a […]
NOVANEWS by : PATRICK HENNINGSEN Human rights in the West: does the reality live up to the rhetoric? On the surface, the cultural narrative seems innocent enough: billionaire philanthropists, political luminaries and transnational corporations, along with […]
NOVANEWS John Pilger This U.S. Navy handout image shows Baker, the second of the two atomic bomb tests, in which a 63-kiloton warhead was exploded 90 feet under water as part of Operation Crossroads, conducted […]