Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Edgardo Ayala SAN SALVADOR, Nov 18, 2011 (IPS) – In a country where hard-line policies have failed to make a dent in soaring levels of violent crime, Salesian priest José María Moratalla has produced good results by offering educational and vocational opportunities to juvenile offenders and young [...]
Turning Education From a Privilege into a Right
July 13, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Inaki Borda UNITED NATIONS, Jul 13, 2011 (IPS) – Going to school and receiving an education are opportunities most people usually take for granted. But for 67 million children around the world, such possibilities do not exist. Girls comprise over half of this overwhelming figure. They are [...]
MIDEAST: Palestinians Won’t Learn Israeli Lessons
July 12, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Jillian Kestler-D’Amours EAST JERUSALEM, Jul 12, 2011 (IPS) – Widespread strikes across Palestinian civil society could be in store for East Jerusalem at the start of the next school year, as the municipality moves ahead with its current plan to implement an Israeli curriculum in Palestinian schools. [...]
PAKISTAN: Schools Rise From the Rubble
June 26, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Ashfaq Yusufzai PESHAWAR, Jun 26, 2011 (IPS) – Violence in the tribal areas of northwest Pakistan has kept students away from school, in some areas for at least two years. Now, officials are trying to make up for lost time by holding classes even under tents or [...]
What’s Really Wrong With the Thiel Fellowships
June 20, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy Ian Fletcher In case you missed it, the Thiel Foundation, founded by Peter Thiel of PayPal fame, just announced the first batch of winners for its “20 Under 20” fellowship program to pay students to drop out of college for two years to pursue entrepreneurial ideas. Any number of people [...]
INDIA: Kashmir in Search of Lost Culture
May 29, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Athar Parvaiz SRINAGAR, May 28, 2011 (IPS) – While the conflict in Indian Kashmir and the destruction it has caused often makes the news, its impact on culture has hardly gotten any attention. Although the armed conflict is on the ebb, cultural events have yet to stage [...]
PAKISTAN: Women Lose Livelihood Centres to Militants
May 29, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Ashfaq Yusufzai PESHAWAR, May 28, 2011 (IPS) – Housewife Shahida Jabeen was devastated when she heard the news that she could no longer take sewing and embroidery classes at the local training centre in her hometown in South Waziristan in north-west Pakistan. "It was like a bombshell [...]
BOLIVIA: The Boomerang Effect for Morales
April 27, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Mario Osava GUAYARAMERÍN, Bolivia, Apr 26, 2011 (IPS) – It wasn’t easy to get to the Bolivian city of Riberalta from Brazil. The adventurous journey included potholes on the Brazilian highway, a rickety boat that ferried us across the Mamoré – the border river – and an [...]
ARGENTINA: Banking on Women’s Experience
April 11, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Marcela Valente BUENOS AIRES, Apr 11, 2011 (IPS) – Argentina’s president is a woman, Cristina Fernández, and the country has one of the highest percentages of women lawmakers in the world. But women also have other leadership roles, outside the political system. Natalia Garabano, the coordinator of [...]
New Yorkers Rage Against the Cuts
March 26, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Kanya D’Almeida NEW YORK, Mar 25, 2011 (IPS) – In the shadow of towering colonial-style office buildings of the world’s most powerful financial district, a crowd over 5,000-strong amassed outside Manhattan’s City Hall Thursday, chanting "The people united will never be defeated!" As the contagious effects of [...]
