Suchergebnisse

Die momentane Fixierung auf Berühmtheiten ist dabei, die Trapos zu verdrängen, die immer noch gesund und munter sind.

Menschen überall auf der Welt haben 1986 die »Rosenkranzrevolution« bewundert; Millionen Filipinos und Filipinas — von katholischen Nonnen angeführt, die bloß mit Blumen und Gebeten bewaffnet waren — haben die Soldaten der Marcos-Diktatur niedergerungen. Das wohl spektakulärste politische Märchen der achtziger Jahre.

A wide range of groups attempted to force President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo out of power in 2006 but failed. The attempt prompted the declaration of a state of emergency and plunged the country deeper into crisis. The year was marked by internecine rivalries among the country's elites, restiveness in the armed forces, and a renewed campaign against communists. But the economy seemed insulated from political uncertainty, posting high growth because of rising export receipts, more foreign investments, and record remittances from overseas workers.

Southeast Asia is arguably the region where the most interesting developments in the field of freedom of expression have taken place over the past 15-20 years. This article takes the reader on a trip around the region, concentrating particularly on the dramatic events in Indonesia, the Philippines, & Thailand. She deals with the media's disclosure of mismanagement by governments & the latter's attempts to hit back at the press; the dangerous situations this creates for journalists; the buying-off of the free press by powerful commercial groups with political interests; & the responsibility of the press in helping to build up stronger & uncorrupt government institutions. The article gives a panorama of the press situation in the region. Adapted from the source document.

The first article in this volume delineates the broad social & political backdrop to the What Next project by surveying some major contemporary problems & challenges & by tracing the development debate over the last thirty years. Coronel & Dixit start from a snapshot from the Philippine island Siargao that dramatises both global disparities & the utterly bleak conditions under which many people live today. With no other way to survive, some farmers & fisherfolk on Siargao are driven to sell their kidneys to rich buyers, exemplifying current trends toward commodification, whether of nature, the human body or genetic material. Cases such as that of Siargao, Coronel & Dixit write, are part of a wider movement of marketisation, privatisation & neoliberal globalisation, now being promoted as a 'single formula for all'. The world at the outset of the 21st century, they state, is marked by a paradox: 'despite increasing levels of global wealth & giant leaps in technological development, global poverty & inequity are at higher levels now than 30 years ago'. Moving back to the 1970s, when the Dag Hammarskjold Foundation's report What Now: Another Development (1975) was published, the article also describes how the development debate was then framed. Development was seen by many as a fairly straightforward process through which Southern countries should strive to replicate the economic structures of the North. Yet at the same time, Coronel & Dixit note, this conception was being questioned. Among the early attempts to envision another view of development was the What Now report, which stressed the need for pluralism, self-reliance & holism as well as ecological concern. With the benefit of thirty years of hindsight, Coronel & Dixit's article revisits the principles of What Now & weighs them against the development thinking of today, epitomised by the UN Millennium Development Goals. Adapted from the source document.