Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Edgardo Ayala SAN SALVADOR, Nov 18, 2011 (IPS) – In a country where hard-line policies have failed to make a dent in soaring levels of violent crime, Salesian priest José María Moratalla has produced good results by offering educational and vocational opportunities to juvenile offenders and young [...]
CUBA: Today’s Youth, As Diverse As the Times
April 13, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Dalia Acosta HAVANA, Apr 13, 2011 (IPS) – Mariana García is a child of the 1990s, when Cuba was in the grip of the severe crisis that hit the island after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the East European socialist bloc. She grew up bombarded [...]
ZAMBIA: Young Voters Push Grassroots Issues to the Fore
March 22, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Lewis Mwanangombe Lusaka, Mar 22, 2011 (IPS) – Concina Haajila was only a year old in 1991 when Zambia turned from 27 years of autocracy and dictatorship to political pluralism and democratic governance. During the past 20 years she and millions of her peers have grown to [...]
EGYPT: Revolutionary Youth Gives Clinton The Cold Shoulder
March 21, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Adam Morrow and Khaled Moussa al-Omrani CAIRO, Mar 21, 2011 (IPS) – U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton last week paid a highly-publicised visit to Cairo’s Tahrir Square, the epicentre of Egypt’s recent popular uprising. But young leaders of the revolution declined an invitation to meet with [...]
MIDEAST: Gaza Protesters Prepare for March 15
February 27, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Pam Bailey GAZA CITY, Feb 27, 2011 (IPS) – A look at the Tunisian and Egyptian uprisings that succeeded in ousting long- entrenched dictators confirms a universal truth: it is the youth who are leading the way in forcing reform in the Middle East. In the Occupied [...]
CHINA: WILL IT CROSS THE RUBICON OF ITS HISTORY?
February 26, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy B.RAMAN The seriousness with which China has been viewing the dangers of a new revolution in China inspired by the people’s uprising in Egypt would be evident from the number of high-level meetings—some of them attended by President Hu Jintao himself— that have been held in Beijing under the auspices [...]
Arab Uprisings Are Not Exciting Asian Youth
February 24, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IDN By Kalinga Seneviratne IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis SINGAPORE (IDN) – Two issues that have been attracting headlines recently, one in Indonesia and another in the Philippines, perhaps explain why Asian youth are not all that excited about the youth uprisings and their dramatic success in the Middle East. Both [...]
POLITICS: Huge Youth Turnout in Elections
October 28, 2009 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Zenaida Machado MAPUTO, Oct 28 (IPS) – Mozambicans voted today in elections reported to have had a massive youth turnout. The polls opened at 7 am with some people lining up in long queues even hours before the voting process started. In the capital city of Maputo lines at [...]
CAMBODIA: Global Crisis Mostly Bypassing the Young – For Now
October 28, 2009 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Robert Carmichael* PHNOM PENH, Oct 28 (IPS) – Mey Chamnan has learned the hard way about the global economic crisis. Both she and her husband were fired from their 50 U.S.-dollar a month jobs in a local garment factory after declining overseas orders caused huge job losses across Cambodia’s [...]
Q&A: Invest in Young People in Latin America
October 12, 2009 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Daniela Estrada interviews MARCELA SUAZO, regional director of UNFPA SANTIAGO, Oct 12 (IPS) – To fight inequality, Latin American countries must double the financial commitment they made at the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development in Cairo, Marcela Suazo, the regional director for the United Nations Population Fund [...]
