Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Kanya D’Almeida NEW YORK, Jan 21, 2012 (IPS) – In most mainstream media the words "corruption" and "election fraud" accompany images of makeshift polling stations manned by armed guards in Burma or burning tires beside tattered ballot boxes in South Sudan – the insidiousness of stolen elections [...]
FUTURE OF KASHMIRI PANDITS
January 21, 2012 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy B.RAMAN It is 23 years today since Jammu & Kashmir saw the beginning of the ethnic-cleansing of the Kashmiri Pandits, the original inhabitants of Jammu & Kashmir (J&K), from their homeland at the instigation of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) by a group of Kashmiri jihadi elements trained, armed and motivated [...]
TURKEY: Filtering Out Internet Freedom
January 21, 2012 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS ANKARA, Jan 19, 2012 (IPS) – Fifteen respected academics from different Turkish universities signed a declaration in Ankara last week protesting recent state regulations restricting access to a variety of websites on ‘moral’ and ‘national integrity’ grounds. Simultaneously, thousands of angry netizens held street demonstrations in several major [...]
LATIN AMERICA: Human Rights Agenda Has Expanded
December 7, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Marcela Valente BUENOS AIRES, Dec 7, 2011 (IPS) – Although the public identifies human rights organisations in Latin America with resistance to the dictatorships of the 1970s and 1980s, for years now these groups have broadened their concerns to encompass environmental and other issues. Environmental conflicts over [...]
CHINA: Enforced Disappearances on the Rise
December 5, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Emily-Anne Owen BEIJING, Dec 5, 2011 (IPS) – China is experiencing the worst crackdown since 1989 with a rising number of enforced disappearances of activists, a prominent Chinese dissident now living in exile has stated. Liao Yiwu, a former Chinese political prisoner and eminent author most well [...]
MEXICO: Deadly Cocktail of Sexual Violence and Impunity
November 23, 2011 By
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, [...]
Afghan Women’s Rights ‘Under Threat’
October 4, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Correspondents* DOHA, Qatar, Oct 3, 2011 (IPS/Al Jazeera) – Women’s rights in Afghanistan are once again under threat after 10 years of progress, two leading British aid agencies have said. Oxfam and Action Aid said on Monday many Afghan women were worried that the impending international troop [...]
ARGENTINA: Needs Outstrip Efforts to Build Affordable Housing
August 15, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Marcela Valente BUENOS AIRES, Aug 12, 2011 (IPS) – The Argentine economy has grown steadily since 2003, and hundreds of thousands of social housing units have been built. Nevertheless, the protests and conflicts that periodically break out make it clear that the solutions have failed to keep [...]
