INDIA: Supreme Court Verdict Revives Euthanasia Debate
Sujoy Dhar MUMBAI, May 27 2011 (IPS) – In a secluded hospital bed in this bustling Indian metropolis, a woman who has lain brain dead for 37 years…
HEALTH-UGANDA: Self Medication Blamed for Increased Drug Resistance
Joshua Kyalimpa KAMPALA, Jul 15 2011 (IPS) – In pharmacies in the heart of Kampala men and women line up to buy drugs that you usually need a…
SOUTH SUDAN: Women Hope Independence Means Less Maternal Deaths
Protus Onyango JUBA, Jul 8 2011 (IPS) – Mother of eight, Jessicah Foni, 36, hopes that independence will mean a hospital will soon be built in her village….
Palestinians Prisoners Languish in Administrative Detention
RAMALLAH, Aug 9 2011 (IPS) – I’m sick with worry about my daughter. I’m afraid of what they are doing to her. She has done nothing to deserve…
Global Gold Rush Brings Heightened Scrutiny
TORONTO, Sep 16 2011 (IPS) – Bolstered by gold prices hovering above 1,800 dollars an ounce and a global economy slowly recovering, exploration activity for the precious metal…
MALAWI: No Social Safety Nets for the Poor
Travis Lupick and Archibald Kasakura BLANTYRE, Nov 4 2011 (IPS) – In Mbedza village, a remote rural community in southern Malawi, Fedson Feston beams an infant s awkward…
JAPAN: Mothers Rise Against Nuclear Power
TOKYO, Dec 21 2011 (IPS) – Japan’s nuclear power industry, which once ignored opposition, now finds its existence threatened by women angered by official opaqueness on radiation from…
“A Catastrophic Year” as Hunger Crisis Looms over Sahel
NOUAKCHOTT , Feb 14 2012 (IPS) – Seven out of the eight governments in the Sahel the arid zone between the Sahara desert in North Africa and Sudan…
Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan Take Differing Approaches on Aral Sea
Correspondents* – IPS/EurasiaNet Orphaned ship in the former Aral Sea, near Aral, Kazakhstan. Credit: Public domain TASHKENT, Mar 22 2012 (IPS) – The saga of the Aral Sea…
Chinese Miners Dig Deep for Death
BEIJING, May 2 2012 (IPS) – China is notorious for containing some of the world’s deadliest mines a reputation that has been corroborated in recent months by a…