Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Emilio Godoy MEXICO CITY, Nov 23, 2011 (IPS) – Sexual violence against women in Mexico is on the rise, alongside the escalation of violence between police and soldiers and the drug cartels, women’s rights activists warn. "We have seen an increase in sexual harassment, groping, gang rape, [...]
MEXICO-RIGHTS: Activists Tell U.N. High Commissioner They’re in Danger
July 10, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Emilio Godoy MEXICO CITY, Jul 8, 2011 (IPS) – Reports of extrajudicial executions, forced disappearances, kidnappings and assaults are some of the heavy baggage that U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay is taking home from Mexico. Pillay, who ended an official visit here Friday, met [...]
Uphill Battle to Save Australians From Execution
June 23, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Stephen de Tarczynski MELBOURNE, Jun 23, 2011 (IPS) – Any Australian government efforts to have two of its citizens spared from the death penalty in Indonesia have been made more difficult by past refusals to intervene on behalf of three Indonesian Islamists in the lead-up to their [...]
Can Mexico Shed Image as Ground Zero in Narco Wars?
June 6, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Kanya D’Almeida WASHINGTON, Jun 4, 2011 (IPS) – Last year, the online branding company East-West Communications ranked Mexico 191st out of 200 countries on its Brand Perception Index, which is generated by analysing buzzwords in the international media’s quarterly and annual coverage of a certain country. Addressing [...]
Drug-Related Violence Closing in on Mexican Capital
May 2, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Daniela Pastrana CUERNAVACA, Mexico, May 2, 2011 (IPS) – The military offensive waged by the conservative government of President Felipe Calderón against drug cartels in northern Mexico has resulted in an appalling death toll and grief-stricken relatives mourning the victims, many of them civilians caught in the [...]
Haitian Trafficking Victims Discovered in Ecuador
April 14, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Gonzalo Ortiz QUITO, Apr 14, 2011 (IPS) – The four young Haitians told legal authorities that they were offered complete scholarships to the university, but that once they reached Ecuador they were locked up in a house and made to pay 150 dollars a month for rent [...]
Social Networking Sites Mobilise Mexicans Fed Up with Violence
April 8, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Daniela Pastrana MEXICO CITY, Apr 7, 2011 (IPS) – Thousands of people took to the streets in 20 cities across Mexico Wednesday to protest the wave of drug-related killings, in demonstrations triggered by the murder of the son of poet Javier Sicilia, in another show of the [...]
AFGHANISTAN: A New Therapy Battles Soaring Drug Addiction
April 5, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Pavol Stracansky BEIRUT, Apr 5, 2011 (IPS) – A pioneering drug substitution programme in conflict-wracked Afghanistan has been hailed a resounding success as local doctors and international health organisations battle soaring heroin addiction rates and an HIV/AIDS epidemic. Doctors on the programme, which gives patients controlled doses [...]
Death Sentence Looms for Filipino Drug Mules in China
March 29, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Kara Santos MANILA, Mar 28, 2011 (IPS) – Time is running short for three Filipino workers in China. Ramon Credo, Elizabeth Batain and Sally Villanueva – who were convicted of smuggling heroin in 2008 – are set to be executed by lethal injection Mar. 30. The Department [...]
