Reduce Poverty in Africa – Educate a Girl
While in the last decade an additional 52 million of sub-Saharan Africa’s children enrolled in primary schools, with girl’s enrolment increasing from 54 percent to 74 percent, a large majority of girls...
View ArticleProgress in Reducing Hunger ‘Tragically Slow’
WASHINGTON, October 11, 2012 (IPS) – At least 20 countries are currently at either “alarming” or “extremely alarming” levels of hunger, according to new research released here on Thursday. World hunger...
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Groups Rewarded in Their Fight for Fair Food
The Korean Women’s Peasant Association won the 2012 Food Sovereignty Prize for its efforts on behalf of the survival of small-scale and ecologically sustainable farming in South Korea. The announcement...
View ArticleU.N. Launches Global Campaign to Abolish Child Marriages
The United Nations has launched a global campaign to abolish an anachronistic social practice still prevalent in some communities around the world: child marriages. “International conventions declare...
View ArticleNew Threats, Same Old U.S. Hegemony
Although it admits that it cannot be a long-term solution, Washington insists on strengthening the armed forces in Latin America, to confront “new threats,” including citizen insecurity. But activists...
View ArticleWhere Drugs Abound – and Syringes to Fight AIDS Are Scarce
In northern Mexico, one of the areas in the country hit hardest by drug trafficking, there are not enough syringes to protect intravenous drug users from HIV/AIDS and hepatitis. “It is a serious public...
View ArticleOil Industry Moves to Block New U.S. Transparency Rules
Lobby groups representing the oil industry filed a lawsuit in Washington court on Wednesday that seeks to halt the implementation of a new set of rules requiring U.S.-registered extractives companies...
View ArticleReport Accuses China of Mass Forced Evictions
Wang Jiazheng’s family was sleeping at home when the bulldozers, along with security officers, entered their village at dawn. While the demolition team was approaching their house, Wang climbed onto...
View ArticleU.S.: Pushback Against Growing Islamophobia
Faced with a rise in anti-Muslim sentiment and a well-funded campaign to promote Islamophobia, a coalition of faith and religious freedom groups Thursday said it will circulate a new pamphlet on...
View ArticleGirls Determined to Fight Guns With Books
Shazia Begum, one of three girls injured in the attack on the Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai says the Taliban had sought to silence a very influential schoolgirl. “Malala is a source of...
View ArticleIsrael Gives U.S. Election Company
The timing of Benjamin Netanyahu’s call for early elections is no coincidence. The incumbent Prime Minister’s strategy is to receive the Israeli public’s renewed confidence as a new U.S. president...
View ArticleIndia Ignoring Coastal Biodiversity – NGOs
Indian civil society organisations see in the 11th United Nations Conference of the Parties (COP11) to the Convention on Biodiversity (CBD), underway in this south Indian city, a rare opportunity to...
View ArticleCooperatives Summit Celebrates Power in Diversity
The migratory seeds of cooperatives were sown and first thrived in Europe, but have since adapted to the climate of nations worldwide. Faces from as far as Kenya and the Philippines and as close as the...
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Rural Women in Peru Cope “Where Life Is Very Sad”
When the crops in her rural highlands community in southern Peru were covered with a thick layer of ice one night, Felícitas Quispe, 43, organised her neighbours to make an effort to keep people from...
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Brazil’s Gender Quota Law Off to Underwhelming Start
Brazil’s new law requiring that 30 percent of candidates must be women made a less than impressive debut in Sunday’s municipal elections, although female candidates for mayor made better headway than...
View ArticleExperts Urge Focus on Microeconomics in Maghreb
A failure to focus on small-scale economics could be the most significant obstacle to stability in North Africa in the aftermath of the Arab Spring, economists, diplomats and development workers warned...
View ArticleWomen Are the New ‘Emerging Market’
Empowering women in the business world is not only a smart political decision, but also makes good economic sense. This sentiment was heard loud and clear inside the Tokyo International Forum, where...
View ArticleIn 2012, Swaziland’s King Faces People Power
Swaziland’s King Mswati III is under immense pressure following the constitutional crisis that has resulted from his cabinet’s refusal to resign after the House of Assembly passed a vote of no...
View ArticleSouth African Truckers Lose Despite Wage Agreement
The signing of a wage agreement between transport workers’ unions and employers on Friday, Oct. 12 may have brought a three-week long truck driver’s strike to an end but analysts say the effects are...
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Malawi’s Heroines of the Floods
For many women in Malawi’s disaster-prone southern district of Nsanje, resilience is essential to survive the cyclical flooding. Twenty-four-year-old Chrissie Davie, a mother of four, saved two of her...
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