GENDER-AFRICA: Some Progress Amidst Continuing Challenges
Madi Ceesay BANJUL, Nov 21 2009 (IPS) – The Beijing Platform for Action in 1995 set out an agenda to address gender equality in priority areas, including poverty,…
Q&A: South Is No Longer a Peripheral Actor
IPS interviews AMBASSADOR NASSIR ABDULAZIZ AL-NASSER of Qatar WASHINGTON, Dec 15 2009 (IPS) – There are broad prospects for developing countries to build on complementarities and leverage South-South…
INDIA: Mobilised by Old Clothes, Poor Folk Stand Up, Take Action
Neeta Lal NEW DELHI, Jan 29 2010 (IPS) – Salidhana village, a mere blip on the vast and arid landscape of India s central state of Madhya Pradesh,…
HEALTH: Potato Drags GM Food Into Europe
David Cronin BRUSSELS, Mar 5 2010 (IPS) – Genetically modified (GM) foods appear to be back on the European Union s political menu thanks to a potato. Manufactured…
Q&A: Equality for Women – “The Core of the Problem is Care”
Daniela Estrada interviews SONIA MONTAÑO, head of ECLAC’s gender unit SANTIAGO, Apr 12 2010 (IPS) – Women help to reduce poverty and raise family incomes, but they pay…
MEXICO: “They’re Killing Us Anyway”
Emilio Godoy APAXCO, Mexico, May 11 2010 (IPS) – Fuera Ecoltec! (Get out Ecoltec!) protesters chanted in a demonstration Sunday in the Mexican town of Apaxco, one year…
U.S.: Youth on Frontlines of Green Justice Struggles
Bankole Thompson DETROIT, Jun 24 2010 (IPS) – The committed determination of young people in the environmental justice movement is emerging as a highlight of the 2010 U.S….
HEALTH: East African Laws Confuse Fake and Generic Drugs – WHO
Isolda Agazzi GENEVA, Jul 19 2010 (IPS) – The World Health Organisation (WHO) agrees that the anti-counterfeit legislation that has been adopted or that is under consideration in…
SOUTH AFRICA: “Children are Dying Needlessly”
CAPE TOWN, Aug 11 2010 (IPS) – By the time Thandi Khumalo* brought her seven-month-old daughter to the Red Cross Children’s Hospital in Cape Town, help came too…
HEALTH: H1N1 Pandemic Is Over, But Vigilance Needed – WHO
Marwaan Macan-Markar BANGKOK, Sep 7 2010 (IPS) – The World Health Organisation (WHO) is urging countries in Asia to remain vigilant about the spread of the H1N1 influenza…