JAMAICA: New Technologies Extend Life and "Mobility" of Radio
In the last 25 years, there has been an explosion of commercial radio stations in what Jamaican broadcast professionals describe as "a revolution" that has extended the "mobility of radio".
View ArticleLittle Money to Promote Gender Equality in Eastern Europe
Despite pushes from international bodies such as the United Nations (UN) or the European Union (EU) to promote gender equality in Central and Eastern Europe, access to funding for such initiatives...
View ArticlePakistan's Hospitals That Come Home
With no money to see a doctor, Gul Lakhta,50, had resigned himself to blindness when a ‘mobile hospital' drove into his village in the Bajaur Agency of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA),...
View ArticleArab Women Bring Spring to the Screen
Women have been at the forefront of each uprising in the Arab world. Last week, the ‘8 Arab Women Filmmakers' festival offered a platform to Arab women directors to give their perspectives on the...
View ArticleNo Red Lines, But No Red Light Either
Intense consultations at the highest level between the U.S. and Israel on how to coordinate their respective strategies vis-à-vis Iran indicate that a strike on the Islamic Republic's nuclear sites,...
View ArticleEgyptian Ties with US on Civil Society Rocks
Egypt's legal campaign against a handful of foreign NGOs reached a crescendo last week with the repatriation of several U.S. nationals indicted on charges of engaging in unauthorised civil society...
View ArticleThai Province Shows the Green Way
As fingers of morning light slip through the mango and banana orchards of his village, Suchin Utanarat heads out in a boat to net a fresh catch from the nearby canals teeming with shrimp.
View ArticleCHILE: Promoting Women's Empowerment on Two Wheels
What does riding a bike have to do with women's rights? According to the Chilean feminist group Macleta, which promotes cycling and a gender perspective on public transport, a bicycle is a powerful...
View ArticleSyria's Chemical Weapons Trigger New Threats in War Zone
As the besieged government of President Bashar al-Assad continues to violently suppress the warring political opposition in Syria, the United Nations has expressed "concern" over reports "on the...
View ArticleOP-ED: To Break the Bonds of Injustice
Forty-six years ago, at a Senate subcommittee hearing on migratory labour, U.S. Senator Robert Kennedy listened in disgust as California's Kern County Sheriff explained the arrests of peaceful...
View ArticlePHILIPPINES: Women Weather Climate Change
As the world commemorates International Women's Day today, women around the globe are speaking out on various issues that affect them. In light of recent natural disasters and calamities in the...
View ArticleU.N. Special Envoy on Iran Details Pattern of Rights Abuses
A United Nations envoy has called on the Iranian government to release all political prisoners and prisoners of conscience, and to conduct an extensive, impartial and independent investigation into...
View ArticleQ&A: How to Analyse a Budget's Impact on Female Empowerment
Tools such as "gender markers", which screen budgets and resources dedicated to promoting gender equality, are proving critical to improving the effectiveness of monetary support that seeks to empower...
View ArticleBrazilian Women Are the World's Happiest
Money may not buy happiness – but it has helped make women in Brazil become the happiest, most optimistic women in the world, according to a study.
View ArticleAcid Survivors Fight Back: A Story of Hope Amidst Despair
When the Oscar-nominated film "Saving Face" won an Academy Award in Hollywood for Best Documentary (Short Subject), it was the triumph of several "firsts": the first time ever that a Pakistani...
View ArticleU.N. Aims at Major Global Conference on Women in 2015
As the race towards gender equality moves at an exceedingly slow pace, the United Nations is calling for a major international conference on women in 2015 - 20 years after a landmark meeting in...
View ArticleWashington Struggles to Find a Path Forward on Syria
As the Syrian army has stepped up its attacks against opposition strongholds in Homs and elsewhere, the U.S. and its allies have achieved little consensus in choosing a course of action to oust...
View ArticleU.S.: Bomb-Iran Week Turns Syrious
This week was supposed to be all about Iran – at least, that's how Israel and its powerful U.S. lobby, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), had planned it - and why the U.S. should...
View ArticleU.S.: More Bad News on the Afghan Front
While U.S. officials insisted their counterinsurgency strategy is still working, Sunday's pre-dawn massacre by a U.S. staff sergeant of 16 people, including nine children, in their homes in Kandahar...
View ArticleOceans Will Not Survive ‘Business as Usual'
Our oceans face a grim outlook in the coming decades. Ocean acidification, loss of marine biodiversity, climate change, pollution and over-exploitation of resources all point to the urgent need for a...
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