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…
Retraining Rwanda’s Traditional Birth Attendants
Aimable Twahirwa KIGALI, Sep 30 2010 (IPS) – Two years spent training traditional birth attendants in remote rural areas has allowed Rwanda to reduce the country s maternal…
U.S.: Planting Oases in a Land of Burgers and Fries
Matthew O. Berger WASHINGTON, Oct 27 2010 (IPS) – Though close to a billion people remain undernourished worldwide, one in three U.S. children are overweight a problem that…
Slowly Winning Fight Against FGM in Northern Senegal
PODOR, Senegal, Nov 29 2010 (IPS) – The harm done by female genital mutilation is still enormous in Podor, a city in the north of Senegal, say officials…