Fake Aid

Foreign aid money given through the UK's Department for International Development (DfID) is being used to support the self-serving activities of NGOs

The EU's Nasty Bite

Author: Caroline Boin

Publication date:

Thursday, January 8, 2009

This study discusses the potential consequences of new EU regulations that prohibit production of certain chemicals used in the manufacture of pesticides.

What do AIDS activists want more money for?

IPN Opinion article

Author: Roger England

UNAIDS has inflated its HIV/AIDS figures for years and now claims the natural decline of AIDS as a victory (it started before UNAIDS was set up): Bill Clinton at the international AIDS conference in Vienna attacked the waste of money but this analyst says UNAIDS should just be shut down. In fact, AIDS is not even the top killer in Africa, let alone anywhere else.

Wrong Tax, Wrong Disease

IPN Opinion article

Author: Eamonn Butler

Officials and activists (and a slightly equivocal Bill Clinton) at the recent world AIDS conference in Vienna want a "Robin Hood" tax on financial transactions to fund HIV/AIDS relief. This well-published analyst explains why this is a bad and counter-productive idea.