Marching Toward a Third Uprising?
While the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip hasn’t been so quiet for the past two decades, it’s now the turn of the occupied West Bank to show signs of eruption. As Hamas tries to export its resistance to the...
View ArticleColombian Landowners, Peasants Listen to Each Other
Colombia’s large-scale agricultural producers and peasant farmers managed to listen to each other for the first time about the core cause of the decades-long armed conflict: the concentration of rural...
View ArticleInternal Audit Warns of IMF Politicisation by the U.S.
The International Monetary Fund (IMF)’s internal auditor has criticised the Fund’s recent policy on foreign currency reserves, and has offered an implicit warning that the United States’ outsized...
View ArticleAnti-Prostitution Campaign Picks Up Speed
In a small dingy room on the edge of a brothel in west Kolkata, capital of the eastern Indian state of West Bengal, a 42-year-old former sex worker is trying to eke out a living selling cooked food in...
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Forests, Fruit and Fish Could Save Coastal Communities
Scientists predict that in the coming years, Bangladesh will be battered by even more climate disasters than it has already endured. Global warming has caused devastating damage in this lower Himalayan...
View ArticleThe Race for a Peaceful Election
Runners Hosea Nailel and Julius Muriuki, who are from Kenya’s rival ethnic Kalenjin and Kikuyu communities respectively, met during a half marathon when they broke away from the pack and remained in...
View ArticleThe Politics of Polio in Pakistan
The murder of nine health workers vaccinating children against polio in Pakistan’s northwest cities of Peshawar and Charsadda in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province, and its southern port city...
View ArticleNew Patient Profile and Treatment for Chagas Disease
Chagas disease, the third most serious infectious disease in Latin America, is developing a “new face” and moving into urban areas, while a new treatment may offer hope for millions of sufferers. The...
View ArticleSalvaging Waste Food for the Hungry in Spain
A recurring question in crisis-stricken Spain is how to ensure that surplus agricultural products reach those most in need. One response is citizen initiatives to protest the waste of food and to...
View ArticleLatin America Hosts Artists-in-Residence
Artists-in-residence, once found only in the industrialised North, can now be found throughout Latin America, which is hosting artists from different parts of the world to produce and exhibit their...
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Q&A: “It’s Time to Wage War on Homophobia”
For more than two decades, the internationally beloved singer and human rights activist Yvonne Chaka Chaka has been at the forefront of the South African pop music scene. Yvonne Chaka Chaka. Credit: UN...
View ArticleSen. John Kerry Chosen for U.S. Secretary of State
U.S. President Barack Obama nominated Massachusetts Senator John Kerry on Friday to succeed Hillary Clinton as secretary of state, calling him “the perfect choice to guide American diplomacy in the...
View ArticleAfrica’s Mobile Health Revolution
A nurse working in a remote clinic in Mueda, a small town in northern Mozambique’s Makonde Plateau, receives a shipment of vaccines from the national health department. Using special software on her...
View ArticleBedouin Seek Democracy in Israel
As campaign posters pop up around Israel ahead of the country’s upcoming parliamentary elections, Bedouin citizens of the state are still reeling after being denied the chance to elect their own local...
View ArticleIndia Looks to Diverse Strategy on Disability
Twenty-year-old Reshma, hailing from the village of Aryanad in the Thiruvananthapuram district of the South Indian state of Kerala, was forced to drop out of school early as a result of...
View ArticleFunding Shortage Thwarts Reconstruction Efforts
The landscape in northern Sri Lanka’s former war zone can change abruptly from the ordinary to the surreal. Areas that lie on the main highways, or major towns like Kilinochchi, Paranthan and...
View ArticleThousands Orphaned by Poverty in Kashmir
Seventeen-year-old Afzal is an unusual orphan. Though his father died many years ago, his mother is still alive and living with Afzal’s grandparents and younger siblings in a house not far from the...
View ArticleThe Industrialisation of Africa’s Smallholder Agriculture
Africa’s smallholder farmers, who contribute 80 percent of food and agricultural production in sub-Saharan Africa and much of the world’s food supply, are being encouraged by big business, governments...
View ArticleAfrica Cashes in on Mineral Wealth
Many of the fastest-growing countries in the world are in Africa, the poorest continent on the planet, but the potential for recently-discovered resources to generate broad-based inclusive development...
View ArticleQ&A: Will the BRICS Bury IBSA?
China’s presence in the leading developing nations alliance of Brazil, Russia, India and China has given the bloc an advantage that another developing nations club, India, Brazil and South Africa, has...
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