Why 1979 Was the Year That Truly Changed the World. 5 raisons pour l'échec de COP15. Les chefs d’Etat intervenant au somment de Copenhague (Reuters) L’échec du sommet de Copenhague est ressenti d’autant plus fortement que l’optimisme prévalait avant la conférence, débutée le 15 décembre.
Cependant, il est apparu assez vite qu’un accord contraignant serait difficile à trouver. Plusieurs facteurs expliquent l’échec de la conférence, qui a péniblement accouché d’une déclaration politique non contraignante. L’affrontement entre pays émergents et pays occidentaux. Ten years that shook, rattled, rolled and helped repair the worl. If, toward the end of 1999, you had wanted a vision of the decade ahead, you would have been advised to visit a place called Jardim Angela, a ramshackle slum of Sao Paulo, Brazil.
A United Nations agency had just declared it the single most violent place on Earth. It seemed to be buffeted by all the trends that the decade was said to promise -rampaging teenaged gangs armed with assault rifles, high rates of AIDS, religious intolerance, battles over scarce fuel and water, an alarmingly fast-growing population, and a near absence of anything resembling government or civil society. 1 "Everything here was falling apart, becoming violent, and there was nothing safe for my sons - no country to help me any more," Rosa Maria dos Santos Souza, a 63-year-old mother of four, told me. He was far from alone: Entire shelves creaked with volumes anticipating the disaster that would be this decade - the coming bad times.
But there has been another, perhaps more important decade. Ms. What had happened? OSC Translates the 2009 Fatah Charter. Last year, the Palestinian National Liberation Movement (Fatah in the Arabic acronym) led by Palestinian National Authority president Mahmoud Abbas gathered in Bethlehem and approved a revision of its charter for the first time since the 1960s.
That revised charter (pdf) has recently been translated into English by the DNI Open Source Center. The document is not particularly conciliatory in tone or content. It is a call to revolution, confrontation with the enemy, and the liberation of Palestine, “free and Arab.” Interestingly, it stresses the role of women in the movement. “The leading bodies will work to arrive at 20 percent participation for women, provided this does not conflict with organizational standards or the Internal Charter.”
But what is perhaps most significant is what is not in the document. The English translation of the new Charter, which does not seem to be available elsewhere, has not been approved for public release by the DNI Open Source Center.