A commitment to reduce poverty, eliminate extreme poverty, and enhance equity and social integration requires persistent actions to reconcile economic growth, employment generation and an active…

Kevin Rudd, Australian Shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs, Australian Labor Party, was an election observer in the Commonwealth Observer Group during the recent Zimbabwean elections and…

Presidential elections took place in the Republic of Belarus on 9 September 2001. It is impossible to call these elections either fair or democratic. Indeed it is difficult to call them elections…

Voices from the Johannesburg Summit Socialist Affairs selects from the many statements made at the World Summit on Sustainable Development held in Johannesburg from 26 August to 4 September …

Let us face the uncomfortable truth. The model of development we are accustomed to has been fruitful for the few, but flawed for the many. A path to prosperity that ravages the environment and…

Pakistan’s parliamentary elections held this October were part of a military promise to restore democracy in the country. The elections were marred by allegations of widespread rigging. The…

Brazil has voted for change. Hope vanquished fear and the electorate decided to set a new path for the country. We treated the world to a beautiful show of democracy, deciding peacefully and calmly…

P.J Patterson is the Prime Minister of Jamaica. The People’s National Party, which he leads, has just achieved a fourth successive term in office, an event unprecedented in the island’s history.…

Willy Brandt, Mayor of Berlin, Chancellor of Germany and Nobel Peace Prize winner, died in October 1992 having presided over the Socialist International for sixteen very fruitful years. As a…

When Jens Stoltenberg came into the world in 1950 it would have been an easy bet to forecast that he would carve out a political career for himself. His father Thorvald was already well known as…