Sorcery-Related Violence on the Rise in Papua New Guinea
An increase in sorcery-related violence and fatalities over the last decade in Papua New Guinea is generating awareness about the lack of development, economic opportunities, inequality and...
View ArticleGunfire from Syria Hits Border Camp in Turkey
Gunfire from the Syrian side of the border has hit a refugee camp inside Turkey, wounding at least three people.
View ArticleAusterity Plan Decapitates Greek Cultural Heritage
The broken display cases at Greece's Museum of Olympia, the site where the first Olympic Games were held thousand of years ago, have stunned members of the Archaeological Service who have been...
View ArticleInstitutionalised Homophobia Encourages Hate Crimes
Agnes Torres, a transsexual psychologist and gay rights activist, left her home in the central Mexican state of Puebla on her way to a party. The next day, her body was found in a gully, naked from...
View ArticleBrazil, U.S. Deepen Ties Ahead of Obama's Latin America Week
Kicking off what some here have called President Barack Obama's "Latin America Week", the president and his Brazilian counterpart, Dilma Rousseff, touted a deepening of bilateral ties in her first...
View ArticleCubans Meditate for a Culture of Peace
In response to the pressures of everyday life, some people in Cuba are promoting meditation as a way to protect the mind and body and foster a culture of peace.
View ArticleU.S. Still Importing Illegal Timber
Since 2008, over 20 U.S. companies have imported illegally logged timber worth millions from the Peruvian Amazon, charged a multi-year investigative report released Tuesday by the Environmental...
View ArticleProtests Over Property Rise Across China
Zhang Haxia and her husband received a knock on the door in the middle of one night last December. They were dragged from their home in south-west China and forced into a van. When they returned...
View ArticleAnnan: Iran Can Be Part of Syria "Solution"
Kofi Annan, the joint United Nations-Arab League envoy on Syria, has welcomed Iranian support for his efforts to secure peace in the country, telling Tehran that it can be "part of the solution".
View ArticleBringing the Lost Cheetah Back to India – But at What Cost?
On Monday, the Indian Supreme Court declined to call a scheduled hearing of the Federal Ministry of Environment and Forests regarding plans to reintroduce African cheetahs, which were declared extinct...
View ArticleWho Will Deal with the Thousands of Abandoned Oil Wells in Peru?
Peru has thousands of abandoned oil wells that continue to pollute their surroundings, with 269 considered to pose a serious hazard. But the government has yet to carry out an inventory in order to...
View ArticleSea Change in Climate Adaptation Planning in Cuba
One of the major challenges facing Cuba as it designs climate change adaptation policies is the preservation of its coastal ecosystems against the predicted rise in sea level and increasingly...
View ArticleGreen Economy or Clean Energy With Equity for Latin America
Latin America and the Caribbean have the potential to uncouple regional economic growth from fossil fuel consumption and develop a "green economy" based on cleaner energy sources, while at the same...
View ArticleOld Tsunami Nightmares, New Warning Systems in Sri Lanka
The fear was palpable for Mohideen Ajeemal when he heard the news of an 8.6 magnitude earthquake off the coast of Indonesia on Apr. 11. The last time an earthquake of similar magnitude hit the same...
View ArticleOP-ED: Getting the Market to Tell the Truth
Moving the global economy off its current decline-and-collapse path depends on reaching four goals: stabilising climate, stabilising population, eradicating poverty, and restoring the economy's...
View ArticleHIV Compounds Poverty in Nepal
Life, already hard in Nepal's remote western region, is getting worse thanks to HIV infection brought back by men who go to neighbouring India for seasonal work.
View ArticleThe Business of South Africa's Garbage
Nokwanda Sotyantya sits among heaps of garbage and patiently sorts through it, separating cardboard, plastic, glass, paper and metal, piece by piece. The recycled piles of trash are then weighed and...
View ArticleU.S., Latin America Growing More Distant, Warns Think Tank
Relations between the United States and Latin America have "grown more distant" in importance part due to the latter's persistent disagreement with U.S. policies on immigration, drugs, and Cuba,...
View ArticleRising Inequality Could be Asia's Undoing
While developing Asian countries have experienced robust growth – lifting living standards and reducing poverty – increasing wealth is fuelling income disparities and inequality, posing a major threat...
View ArticleImmigrants in Chile File Complaint against Mass Expulsions
The Committee of Peruvian Refugees in Chile has filed a complaint with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, alleging that this country carries out mass expulsions of immigrants.
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