POLITICS-RWANDA: Woman Vies for Top Job
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Stanley Kwenda
KIGALI, Mar 17 (IPS) – On average women constitute 18.8 percent of representatives in parliaments across the world according to the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU). This gender imbalance has been subject to much feminist criticism and many campaigns for change have been staged to address the status quo. [...]
RIGHTS-BAHRAIN: Weak Laws Let Rapists Off the Hook
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By Suad Hamada
MANAMA, Mar 16 , 2010 (IPS) – Cunning rapists in Bahrain can avoid victimising virgins so they could escape the maximum penalty provided by law, and those who force themselves on young girls can evade punishment by promising to marry their victims.
These are two of [...]
And Yet One In Three Africans Is Chronically Hungry
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By Babukar Kashka
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NAIROBI (IDN) – One in three Africans is chronically hungry despite 3 billion dollars a year that Africa receives in food aid and 33 billion dollars the continent spends annually on food imports. What to do?
The answer seems to be [...]
POLITICS-NIGERIA: In the Shadows of Men: Women’s Political Marginalisation
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Mustapha Muhammad
KANO, Mar 12 (IPS) – Ten years after Nigeria returned to civil rule women still play second fiddle in the male-dominated politics of Africa’s most populous nation, women politicians and activists say.
Since this West African country of 140 million people broke from military rule and embraced [...]
KENYA: Proposed Constitutional Amendment Sets Back Women’s Rights
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Susan Anyangu-Amu
NAIROBI, Mar 11 (IPS) – Lillian Mutuku, a 34-year-old mother of three, describes her home in Katine area, in Kenya’s Eastern province Tala, as a harsh place to live. The soil is poor, she says, the sun beats down mercilessly and vegetation is sparse.
”People here face [...]
IRAQ: Women Miss Saddam
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By Abdu Rahman and Dahr Jamail*
BAGHDAD, Mar 12, 2010 (IPS) – Under Saddam Hussein, women in government got a year’s maternity leave; that is now cut to six months. Under the Personal Status Law in force since Jul. 14, 1958, when Iraqis overthrew the British-installed monarchy, Iraqi women [...]
RIGHTS: Africa’s Success Stories in Gender Empowerment
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Thalif Deen* – IPS/TerraViva
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 10 (IPS) – Whenever gender empowerment is a vibrant topic of discussion internationally, some of the countries in Europe, Asia and Latin America are invariably singled out for their success stories in politics, education, health care or civil liberties even as Africa [...]
Q&A: Qualified Women Have Better Chance in Top Jobs
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Thalif Deen interviews UNESCO Director-General IRINA BOKOVA* – IPS/Terraviva
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 8 (IPS) – Irina Bokova, who was elected director-general of the U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) last September, heads the Paris-based agency at a time when the world body has placed a high priority on [...]
BRAZIL: Ambitious Development Plan to Cut Inequality
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Mario Osava
RIO DE JANEIRO, Mar 8 (IPS) – Brazil will be ”radically less unequal” and less vulnerable to shocks from the outside when it celebrates 200 years of independence from Portugal, if the Strategic Affairs Secretariat’s (SAE) plans for the next 12 years are put into practice, according [...]
EUROPE: Economists Blame Germany for Mediterranean Crisis
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Julio Godoy
BERLIN, Mar 5 (IPS) – Germany’s obsession with maintaining a trade surplus, in line with its mercantilist traditions, is one cause for the severe economic crisis that has gripped several Euro-Mediterranean countries, say economists.
Germany, the largest economy in the European Union (EU), has been for more [...]
Gabor Steingart: The New World Disorder
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This lecture delivered by Gabor Steingart at the Global Policy Institute in 2008 remains is as relevant today as when originally presented.
The 7 Fallacies of the Globalisation Debate: Is it destroying the West? The Flat World. Outsourcing. Free Trade.Each of these phrases is a flashpoint in one of the most [...]
DEVELOPMENT: Hunger Feeds More Hunger
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By Paul Virgo
ROME, Jan 22, 2010 (IPS) – German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche was way off the mark when he wrote the famous line "what does not destroy me, makes me stronger" – at least when it comes to hunger.
Every six seconds a child is killed by hunger [...]
RIGHTS-INDIA: Shelter for the Homeless amid Big Chill
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By Ranjit Devraj
NEW DELHI, Jan 22, 2010 (IPS) – Happiness for Alok and Saddam is the bare canvas tent set up in the middle of a grassy traffic island close to Delhi Gate, the entrance to the old quarter of India’s capital.
"For warmth we have each other," [...]
BOLIVIA: More Women in Parliament, With Their Own Agenda
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Franz Chávez
LA PAZ, Jan 20 (IPS) – An unprecedented 28 percent of seats in Bolivia’s new parliament will soon be occupied by women. Female lawmakers have already launched a battle for women to serve in half the posts in the executive, legislative and judicial branches of government.
One [...]
PERU: Victims of Military Rapists Wait for Justice 25 Years On
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LIMA
Ángel Páez, Jan 20 (IPS) – ”I want justice. That will be a kind of peace,” says Micaela, a 40-year-old woman from the Andean region of Peru who is a survivor of the sexual violence prevalent during the 1980-2000 civil war. Twenty-five years ago, soldiers assaulted her at [...]
