Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Sujoy Dhar BHUBANESWAR, India, Jun 24, 2011 (IPS) – Fourteen-year-old Satikanta Sahu loves going to school, but these days, he would rather spend his time manning the barricade and facing down policemen in the sandy coastal village of Govindpur in India’s eastern state of Orissa. While his [...]
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 [...]
OP-ED: Drilling Deep Mistakes in the Arctic
June 20, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Kumi Naidoo* THE INSTITUTION PRISON, NUUK, Greenland, Jun 20, 2011 (IPS) – Nuuk is a long way from my hometown of Durban, and the Arctic is a long way for an African to come to campaign about climate change. Yet, here I sit, in a jail cell, [...]
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 [...]
CHILE: Dictatorship-Era Law Used to Squelch Activism
May 26, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Pamela Sepúlveda SANTIAGO, May 25, 2011 (IPS) – "What is happening in Chile isn’t justice; it’s a pantomime, because under the anti-terrorism law, there is absolutely no way justice can be done," José Venturelli, spokesman for the European Secretariat of the Ethics Commission against Torture, said on [...]
SRI LANKA: War Long Over, Media Still Muzzled
May 2, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Amantha Perera COLOMBO, May 2, 2011 (IPS) – It has been two years since the end of Sri Lanka’s decades long war, and life in general has begun to slowly edge back towards normalcy here. Not so for the country’s besieged media community, according to observers and [...]
Mexican Women March for Rights, Mourn Slain Activists
April 12, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Daniela Pastrana MEXICO CITY, Apr 12, 2011 (IPS) – For the first time, Mexico has a female attorney general – the highest post ever reached by a woman in this country. But elation at this achievement is overshadowed by grief over the brutal murders of women police [...]
AN ANTI-CORRUPTION AYATOLLAH
April 8, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy B.RAMAN One has reasons to be gratified and at the same time concerned over the direction the national anti-corruption movement led and galvanised by social activist Anna Hazare has been taking since it was launched three days ago from Jantar Mantar in New Delhi. 2. It has shaken up the [...]
CORRUPTION-INDIA: Gandhian Movement Pushes Ombudsman Law
April 8, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Ranjit Devraj NEW DELHI, Apr 7, 2011 (IPS) – Seeing the bespectacled old man fasting in protest against corruption in the bustling heart of the Indian capital, many are reminded of Mahatma Gandhi, the man who used ‘moral power’ to lead India to independence from British colonial [...]
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 [...]
