When Cites sanctioned the last ivory sale in 2007, it was agreed that there would be no more such one-off sales for at least nine years, and Tanzania and Zambia are seen as having reneged on this. Their move has aroused resentment among other African states, which are now trying to protect their threatened and dwindling elephant populations with a motion for next month's meeting calling for a 2...

For all its hard won success, by the beginning of the last decade of the twentieth century, feminism was troubled. Though younger, less visible, and less institutionalized, the lesbian and gay rights movement also had made some great advances over the previous few decades, yet it, too, was fraught. There was the serious, but more obvious problem that many women and gay men and lesbians—persons ...