Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By José Adán Silva MANAGUA, Nov 5, 2010 (IPS) – Nicaragua has made some progress promoting gender equity and the empowerment of women, but it will have to step up efforts and overcome a number of hurdles if it is to eliminate inequalities between the sexes at all [...]
NICARAGUA: Machismo Just Isn’t Cool
October 23, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By José Adán Silva MANAGUA, Oct 23, 2010 (IPS) – As he left a workshop in the Nicaraguan capital about gender equality, Alejandro Silva was forced to confront a show of machismo, ironically, with his fists. He was attacked by classmates who taunted him that he was gay. [...]
NICARAGUA: Land Titles Liberate Women Farmers
June 1, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS José Adán Silva MANAGUA, Jun 1 (IPS) – Josefina Rodríguez very nearly lost her life trying to protect the small plot of farmland in rural Nicaragua that allows her to support her family. Twelve years ago her husband wanted to sell the land, and when she stood up [...]
NICARAGUA: Controversy Over Pregnancy-Related Death Toll
April 21, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS José Adán Silva MANAGUA, Apr 21 (IPS) – Non-governmental organisations in Nicaragua are questioning data on the maternal mortality rate released by the government, which is claiming a historic decline in the indicator, and they warn that the reduction target that the country has committed itself to by 2015 [...]
NICARAGUA: Despite Efforts, Corruption Still a Problem
November 19, 2009 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS José Adán Silva MANAGUA, Nov 19 (IPS) – Two national surveys and the latest report on perceptions of corruption by Transparency International support the view that a culture of graft continues to undermine the foundations of Nicaraguan society, in spite of efforts to fight the problem in the last [...]
RIGHTS-NICARAGUA: Mudslinging Match Between Gov’t, Activists
November 6, 2009 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS José Adán Silva MANAGUA, Nov 6 (IPS) – Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega has been accused before the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights of responsibility for a series of violent incidents, which in the view of some analysts and civil society organisations have harmed democracy in the country. The government, [...]
NICARAGUA: Young People Exiled by Poverty
October 19, 2009 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS José Adán Silva MANAGUA, Oct 19 (IPS) – If they could, about 60 percent of Nicaraguans under 30 would go to live abroad, according to studies on migration, which find that the country’s chronic poverty is the main reason for wanting to migrate. Between 1990 and 2005, more than [...]
NICARAGUA: Building Solidarity Through Blood Donations
October 17, 2009 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS José Adán Silva MANAGUA, Oct 17 (IPS) – The Nicaraguan Red Cross is conducting an awareness-raising campaign to increase voluntary blood donations and meet hospital demand, in order to compensate for changes in blood collection practices and address a severe health crisis caused by outbreaks of dengue fever, pneumonia [...]
POLITICS: Firebrand Priest Leaves Mark at U.N.
September 16, 2009 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Haider Rizvi UNITED NATIONS, Sep 16 (IPS) – Few critics of the United Nations’ often skewed balance of power have matched the outspoken fury of the revolutionary priest who led the world body’s principal organ until Monday. ”Certain member states think that they can act according to the law [...]
