Reporting Dangerously From Somalia
When journalist Mohamed Ibrahim Rageh was shot by unknown assailants outside his home in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Apr. 22, his name was added to a list of four journalists who have been killed...
View ArticleBedouin Resist Israeli Shove
Dozens of metal and wooden tents cling to the rocky hillside, just outside of Jerusalem along the road leading to the Dead Sea, while the unmistakable red roofs of Israeli settlements peak out from...
View ArticlePost-Conflict Trauma Haunts Solomon Islands
After ten years of working towards peace and reconciliation in the Solomon Islands in the South Pacific, following a five-year civil conflict known as the ‘Tensions’ (1998-2003) which left 30,000...
View ArticleIvorians Snub Government
Last week’s local elections in Côte d’Ivoire were supposed to be a contest between members of the current governing coalition. But in municipal races, independent candidates claimed more seats than...
View ArticleActivists Fight U.S. Aid to Develop El Salvador’s Pacific Coastline
Community leaders in El Salvador are opposed to the government’s plans to use U.S. aid funds to develop the country’s Pacific coastline, on the grounds that it would threaten the environment in a vast...
View ArticleOP-ED: How Bin Ladin’s Jihadist Message Continues to Lure the Vulnerable
The surviving Boston Marathon bomber reportedly told authorities the U.S. “war on Islam” drove him and his brother to commit their terrorist act. Their linking the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan with a...
View ArticleSyria Says PM Escapes Car Bomb Attack
Syrian Prime Minister Wael al-Halqi has survived a bomb attack that targeted his convoy in central Damascus, Syrian state media report. “The terrorist explosion in al-Mazzeh was an attempt to target...
View ArticleCyber Bill Fails in U.S. Senate, but Online Privacy Concerns Live On
For the second year in a row, activists have successfully defeated a proposal to allow Internet companies to provide customers’ private information to government agencies and each other without risking...
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Over 100 Million Women Lead Migrant Workers Worldwide
The face of migration is changing dramatically as women and girls now represent about half of the over 214 million migrants worldwide. Bolivian migrant in the airport in El Alto, next to La Paz....
View ArticleSome Hear Death Knell for a Two-State Solution
Despite indications that U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is committing a substantial amount of time and effort to revive the long-stalled Israel-Palestinian “peace process”, a growing number of...
View ArticleBolivian Entrepreneur Helps Quinoa Shine in U.S.
Ana Chipana, from Bolivia, did not like eating quinoa when she was a girl. But this grain-like crop native to the Andes was her ticket to becoming a successful entrepreneur who has visited NASA and the...
View ArticleMonetising Human Waste and 101 (Slightly) Crazy Other Ideas
One, two or more of the 102 newly launched out-of-the box ideas to improve global health could be world-changing breakthroughs. It might be someone’s idea to create a test strip you touch with your...
View ArticleOpinions Deeply Divided Over Fracking in Argentina
The enthusiasm of the government and oil and gas companies over Argentina’s unconventional fuel potential has come up against fierce opposition from communities living near the country’s shale gas...
View ArticleUnearthing Trinidad’s Carib Ancestry
Ricardo Bharath-Hernandez, like most citizens of Trinidad and Tobago, has probably lost count of the millions of dollars being spent to renovate the Greek revival style “Red House” that serves as the...
View ArticleQ&A: Schools Need “Transliteracy”
A new social contract is needed in education, that would fully incorporate informatics and the 21st century conception of human rights, French professor Divina Frau-Meigs says in this interview with...
View ArticleAiming to Conserve Energy, Antigua Turns to Its Residents
In drought-plagued Antigua, where water and energy top the list of most precious resources, one campaign is encouraging islanders to conserve both of these commodities. The campaign, Green Antigua, of...
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In U.S.-Mexico Relations, a Shift from Security to Economy
Ahead of President Barack Obama’s trip to Mexico and Costa Rica, experts here are expecting that security will take a back seat to issues of economic cooperation between the U.S. and Mexico. Mexican...
View ArticleWTO, Dubious Prize for a Latin American?
The complicated challenge of invigorating the debilitated World Trade Organisation (WTO) and the multilateral trade system that it governs will fall, for the next four years and for the first time...
View ArticleWomen Forge a Space for Themselves in Latin American Labour Movement
Misogyny is the word on the lips of women trade unionists in Latin America when asked what they have had to fight against to win spaces in the leadership bodies of labour unions in the region. “The...
View ArticleMyanmar Report on Anti-Rohingya Violence Skewed Toward Security
A long-awaited official report on last year’s sectarian violence in western Myanmar is being heavily disparaged by human rights and advocacy groups here, who say a government-backed commission has...
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