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 [...]
RIGHTS-PERU: Following the Clues in Exhumation of Massacre Victims
July 13, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Milagros Salazar DOCE CORRAL, Peru, Jul 13, 2011 (IPS) – The daylight is fading, but Francisca Huanca’s hopes are growing brighter. "Yes, they’re his sneakers, he liked to play football," she says with tears in her eyes. She has just caught a glimpse of the remains of [...]
ARGENTINA: Shedding Light on Dictatorship’s Sex Crimes
June 28, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Marcela Valente BUENOS AIRES, Jun 28, 2011 (IPS) – It’s been nearly three decades since Argentina’s 1976-1983 military dictatorship came to an end, but the sex crimes committed against political prisoners are just now starting to draw more attention, after being pushed into the background in human [...]
GUATEMALA: Women-Only Buses Against Sexual Harassment
June 24, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Danilo Valladares GUATEMALA CITY, Jun 24, 2011 (IPS) – "We are all safer here; it’s great because this way there are no men groping you," Jaqueline Escobar, a sales executive, told IPS on a bus that is exclusively for women, a service against sexual harassment that is [...]
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 [...]
NEPAL: Women Battle for New Constitution
May 26, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Sudeshna Sarkar KATHMANDU, May 26, 2011 (IPS) – With the May 28 target for a new constitution approaching and Nepal’s coalition government admitting it would not make the deadline, women are pushing for rights they want enshrined in the document. The campaign made them bear the brunt [...]
ZIMBABWE: Rural Women Voting With Their Feet
May 26, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Ignatius Banda BULAWAYO, May 26, 2011 (IPS) – At independence in 1980, Loyce Tshuma (55), a villager in rural Tsholotsho in Matebeleland North, was a loyal believer in politics as a powerful vehicle to change and better lives. Since then she never missed an opportunity to cast [...]
MIDEAST: Israel’s Cornered ‘Slaves’ Speak Out
May 25, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Jillian Kestler-D’Amours JERUSALEM, May 25, 2011 (IPS) – A new Israeli law that would bind migrant workers in nursing or care-giving professions to their employers is raising alarm amidst human rights groups and legal experts, who say that the law infringes upon the workers’ right to dignity [...]
Hotel Maids Say Sexual Harassment Is Part of the Job
May 23, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Aline Cunico NEW YORK, May 23, 2011 (IPS) – With the arrest of the once powerful head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Dominique Strauss-Kahn, following allegations that he raped a maid in his 3,000-dollar-a-night penthouse suite at the Sofitel Hotel, a spotlight has been turned on [...]
