Women Make Flowers Pay
In Honiara, capital of the Solomon Islands in the South Pacific, women are taking the lead in developing a burgeoning floriculture industry. At the same time, their enterprise is contributing to...
View ArticleThe Siege Is Rubbish
“For the past five years we’ve collected garbage by traditional means: donkey and cart,” says Abdel Rahem Abulkumboz, director of health and environment at the Municipality of Gaza. The municipality of...
View ArticleAcid Victims Have a Lot to Undo
Her face covered with a maroon scarf and with large old -fashioned goggles hiding her eyes, Sonali Mukherjee lived one of the most cherished moments of her life when she earned a jackpot on a show...
View ArticleRefugees of Libyan War Protest at World Social Forum
“We need a solution. The U.N. has created the problem, and they should do their work and fix it,” says Bright, a young Nigerian stuck in the Choucha refugee camp in Tunisia, a few kilometres from the...
View ArticleYemen Struggles With Past Crimes
Yemen has launched its six-month National Dialogue but creating a just law is proving a formidable task. The debate is being conducted through a conference that finally kicked off in the capital on...
View ArticleBorder Control by Another Name
Crossing the Belgian-German border in the heart of Europe should be a smooth experience, with no border controls, since the Schengen free movement area came into existence. Yet identity checks at this...
View ArticleLebanon in a ‘Civil War’ Over Wages
The surprise resignation of Lebanon’s Prime Minister Nijab Mikati eclipsed his last major manoeuvre, which was to refer to parliament a highly contentious wage scale hike for the public sector....
View ArticleIndia’s Top Court Dismisses Drug Patent Case
India’s highest court has dismissed Swiss drug maker Novartis AG’s petition seeking patent protection for a cancer drug, a serious blow to Western pharmaceutical firms which are increasingly focusing...
View ArticleEurope’s Invisible Children
Twenty-two-year-old Dario (not his real name) came to Belgium from Brazil in 2005. Just a teenager at the time, he told IPS he “came to escape the economic, social and political conditions in Brazil...
View ArticleMining Investment Won’t Switch from Chile to Peru
The Chilean government has warned of the potential flight of mining and energy investments to Peru because of court rulings that have paralysed large-scale mining projects in the north of the country....
View ArticleU.N. Goes Global to Set Post-2015 Agenda
The United Nations apparently lacked the online resources of the fast-growing digital age when it created its highly-touted Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in 2001, with a targeted deadline of...
View ArticleTo Boycott or Not to Boycott the Gambia’s Elections
When Gambians go to the polls for the country’s local government elections on Thursday Apr. 4, they will have fewer candidates to choose from as six of the country’s seven opposition parties are...
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World Bank Aims to End Extreme Poverty by 2030
World Bank President Jim Kim has unveiled a series of new institutional goals aimed at ending extreme poverty by 2030 and focusing on the promotion of “shared prosperity” – increasing the incomes of...
View ArticleIsrael Criticised for Harsh Treatment of Palestinian Children
In most countries, children are treated more gently by law enforcement than adults, with the right to have a parent present during questioning, for example. The situation is different in the Occupied...
View ArticleU.N. Greenlights Long-Awaited Arms Trade Treaty
For many in the international community, the iconic sculpture outside the U.N. Visitors’ Centre appears more prominent today, as the majority of member states tightened its knot by adopting the first...
View ArticleChinese Investment Tests Limits of Georgian Hospitality
A 150-million-dollar-plus Chinese real estate and tourism deal that is slated for a suburb of Georgia’s capital, Tbilisi, is creating a quandary for many Georgians. The project is feeding a...
View ArticleVenezuela’s Elections Crucial to Latin American Left
The São Paulo Forum, which groups leftist political parties and organisations of Latin America and the Caribbean, sees a victory by Venezuela’s acting President Nicolás Maduro in the Apr. 14 elections...
View ArticleEscalating Korea Crisis Dims Hopes for Denuclearisation
With all sides seeming to climb further up the escalatory ladder over the last several days, defusing the ongoing crisis on the Korean Peninsula — let alone persuading Pyongyang to give up its nuclear...
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Falcons Love the Taliban
While the Taliban’s military activities continue to plague Pakistan’s northern Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA), the incessant violence has been a blessing in disguise for one creature: the...
View ArticleBuilding a Better Somali Region
For over two decades Somali Region, in eastern Ethiopia, has been devastated by a grueling insurgency. Trapped in a time warp, it has been forgotten and underdeveloped. But in the last few years,...
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