Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Jim Lobe WASHINGTON, Apr 4, 2011 (IPS) – Nearly 60 international civil society organisations urged the executive board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Monday to earmark some 2.8 billion dollars in profits from the agency’s gold sales for cancelling the debts of the world’s poorest nations. [...]
HAITI: Seeding Reconstruction or Destruction?
April 1, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Correspondents* PORT-AU-PRINCE, Apr 1, 2011 (IPS/Haiti Grassroots Watch) – Last year, tens of thousands of tonnes of tools, seeds and plant cuttings were distributed to almost 400,000 Haitian farming families, perhaps one-third to one-half of the country’s farming population. The 20-million-dollar programme – spearheaded by the U.N. [...]
PAKISTAN: Citizens and NGOs Step Forward to End Illiteracy
March 24, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Zofeen Ebrahim KARACHI, Mar 23, 2011 (IPS) – The man known as ‘Master Ayub’ holds classes for free, between three and seven o’clock. His classroom is a public park, and his students are street children six to 16 years of age who otherwise would be picking trash, [...]
Q&A: "Women Must Be Part of the Peace Equation"
March 21, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS Rousbeh Legatis interviews MAVIC CABRERA-BALLEZA, Global Network of Women Peacebuilders UNITED NATIONS, Mar 21, 2011 (IPS) – Eleven years ago, 192 countries – all the United Nations member states – agreed to step up the integration of women in international peacebuilding and security processes, a promise that has [...]
LATIN AMERICA: Fighting Rise in Non-Communicable Diseases
March 9, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Marcela Valente BUENOS AIRES, Mar 9, 2011 (IPS) – Some 50 non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in Latin America have formed a coalition to fight cardiovascular and respiratory diseases, diabetes and cancer, which have become the main causes of death and disability for people in the region. Representatives of [...]
MALAWI: In Praise of Dry Sanitation
March 9, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Claire Ngozo LILONGWE, Mar 9, 2011 (IPS) – At its best it is waterless, odorless, eminently affordable and has a rich fertiliser as byproduct, yet for residents of Malawi’s informal settlements, dry sanitation retains a whiff of the unwanted. As much as two-thirds of Malawi’s two-million strong [...]
WORLD SOCIAL FORUM: Fisheries Need Transparent Regulation
February 11, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Isolda Agazzi DAKAR, Feb 11, 2011 (IPS) – Senegalese fishers participating in the 2011 World Social Forum (WSF) warned governments to "wake up to the ethical and transparent regulation of access to fisheries" to halt the overexploitation of this increasingly scarce resource. Charles Bakundakwita, executive secretary of [...]
Slow Food Picks Up Steadily
October 29, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Claudia Ciobanu TORINO, Italy, Oct 29, 2010 (IPS) – It’s been a steady, even if slow growth for the Slow Food movement around the world. Founded 22 years ago in Italy, the Slow Food movement tackles issues as diverse as basic survival of farmers, land-grabbing, biodiversity protection, [...]
Pan-African Voices Called Pambazuka
October 25, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IDN Pan-African Voices Called Pambazuka By Jutta Wolf IDN-InDepth NewsInterview BERLIN/OXFORD (IDN) – Pambazuka News, symbolizing "the awakening on a new era in which the people of Africa will once again assert their determination to control their own destiny", is proudly celebrating its tenth anniversary, looking forward to new [...]
KENYA: Room to Improve on Governance
October 10, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Isaiah Esipisu NAIROBI, Oct 9, 2010 (IPS) – Kimani Wanyama*, a homosexual man living in Nairobi, knows what human rights violations are all about. His attempts over three years to receive treatment for reoccurring rectal gonorrhoea had resulted in verbal abuse and intense stigmatisation from the very [...]
