Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Mario Osava GUAYARAMERÍN, Bolivia, Apr 26, 2011 (IPS) – It wasn’t easy to get to the Bolivian city of Riberalta from Brazil. The adventurous journey included potholes on the Brazilian highway, a rickety boat that ferried us across the Mamoré – the border river – and an [...]
Kenyan Women Pulling Together Against Poverty
April 13, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Isaiah Esipisu KIAMBU DISTRICT, Kenya, Apr 13, 2011 (IPS) – When it works, it’s spectacular: Esther Ngonyo Njuguna’s dairy project stands as testimony to the potential of microcredit schemes to boost rural incomes. Eight years ago, Mama Njoki – "Njoki’s mother" as Njuguna is affectionately called in [...]
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 [...]
ARGENTINA: Banking on Women’s Experience
April 11, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Marcela Valente BUENOS AIRES, Apr 11, 2011 (IPS) – Argentina’s president is a woman, Cristina Fernández, and the country has one of the highest percentages of women lawmakers in the world. But women also have other leadership roles, outside the political system. Natalia Garabano, the coordinator of [...]
In Cambodia, Women Fear Death at Childbirth
April 1, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Marwaan Macan-Markar KRAING KAOK, Cambodia, Apr 2, 2011 (IPS) – Death haunts women in this Cambodian village at a moment of happiness – when they give birth. "Today, nothing frightens Cambodian women more than having to give birth," says Mu Sochuea, former minister of women’s affairs. "It [...]
MALAWI: Putting Knowledge Into Practice in Childbirth
April 1, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Claire Ngozo LILONGWE, Mar 30, 2011 (IPS) – Post-partum haemorrhage is the leading cause of maternal mortality worldwide, according to the World Health Organisation. A decade of applying research to midwifery practice in one Malawi district demonstrates that PPH is quite easy to prevent. One in four [...]
ZIMBABWE: Fears for Next Generation of Women Leaders
April 1, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Ignatius Banda BULAWAYO, Zimbabwe, Mar 31, 2011 (IPS) – Zimbabwe’s veteran women politicians fear there are no younger women coming up through the ranks to replace them. Measures to improve women’s representation have achieved little and young women are absent from the traditional entry points into politics. [...]
EGYPT: Virginity Checks Are Army’s Latest Weapon
March 24, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Cam McGrath CAIRO, Mar 24, 2011 (IPS) – Fresh-faced Salwa El-Hosseiny had joined protesters in Cairo’s Tahrir Square when a plainclothes officer grabbed her and dragged her to army officers stationed in a nearby museum. The veiled 20-year-old claims she was beaten, electrocuted and verbally abused, then [...]
Women in Garment Factories Help Cambodia Out of Poverty
March 24, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Marwaan Macan-Markar PHNOM PENH, Mar 25, 2011 (IPS) – Cambodia’s rise out of poverty continues to depend on the nimble fingers of young women like Khiev Chren. She has spent the last three years in a garment factory on the outskirts of this capital city, churning out [...]
KENYA: Women Hold the Key to Rural Prosperity
March 24, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Isaiah Esipisu KIAMBANI, Kenya, Mar 24, 2011 (IPS) – John Kyalo Mulwa couldn’t support his family from his six hectare farm, so he quit farming to open a bar. But he turned the land – and decision-making on it – over to his wife. Turns out she’s [...]
