Global News Blog – Global Analyst / IPS By Fatima Asmal DURBAN, Oct 26, 2010 (IPS) – Gender training for peacekeeping operations "is not something you do for two weeks before you go for deployment," says Florence Butegwa, UNIFEM representative to the African Union (AU) and U.N. Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA). The growing international [...]
BURMA: Public Health Ailing Even Before Cyclone Struck
May 19, 2008 By
Global News Blog / IPSMonday, May 19, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Marwaan Macan-Markar BANGKOK, May 19 (IPS) – Even before Cyclone Nargis tore through Burma’s populous Irrawaddy Delta, the country’s public health system was ailing. It struggled to survive on a slow drip of funds from the state’s coffers. [...]
BRAZIL: Leading Agroscience Has Few Links to Small Farmers
May 19, 2008 By
Global News Blog / IPSMonday, May 19, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Mario Osava* – Tierramérica RIO DE JANEIRO, May 19 (IPS) – Brazil has the most advanced agricultural science and technology system of the world’s tropical countries, with an array of environmental and high-production solutions, but which rarely reach [...]
CAMBODIA: Sees Opportunity in Rising Food Prices
May 18, 2008 By
Global News Blog / IPSSunday, May 18, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Andrew Nette PHNOM PENH, May 19 (IPS) – Cambodian government sees opportunity for this impoverished country in the global rise in food prices that could help turn the fortunes for its agrarian economy. But, while Khmer and foreign [...]
TRADE-AFRICA: EPA Threatens to Tear Apart Oldest Customs Union
May 17, 2008 By
Global News Blog / IPSSaturday, May 17, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Aileen Kwa* GENEVA, May 17 (IPS) – The fate of the world’s oldest customs union, the Southern African Customs Union (SACU), is hanging in the balance as a result of the economic partnership agreements that most SACU countries [...]
MIDEAST: Amid Rocket Attacks, Israel Ponders Peace
May 16, 2008 By
Global News Blog / IPSFriday, May 16, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Peter Hirschberg JERUSALEM, May 16 (IPS) – A rocket attack on the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon this week has again ignited calls in Israel for an invasion of Gaza, but Prime Minister Ehud Olmert still seems more [...]
IRAQ: Nature Adds to Occupation Blows
May 14, 2008 By
Global News Blog / IPSWednesday May 14, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Ahmed Ali and Dahr Jamail* BAQUBA, May 15 (IPS) – Farmers in the Diyala province in Iraq have been hit by just about every crisis possible. First the security disaster dried up supplies and markets, then lack of [...]
CHINA: Temblor – Test of Openness
May 13, 2008 By
Global News Blog / IPSTuesday, May 13, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Antoaneta Bezlova BEIJING, May 13 (IPS) – As the death toll from a devastating earthquake in south-western China continues to climb, the disaster is proving a credibility test for the government, whose mandate is derived from maintaining stability [...]
POLITICS: Gulf Seen Between Democracy in Theory and Practice
May 12, 2008 By
Global News Blog / IPSMonday, May 12, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. JimLobe WASHINGTON, May12 (IPS) – The basic democratic principle that ”the will of the people should be the basis for the authority of government” is supported by overwhelming majorities throughout the world, according to a major new survey [...]
MIDEAST: The Anniversary Is Over, the Agony Is Not
Global News Blog / IPSMonday, May 19, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Mohammed Omer RAFAH REFUGEE CAMP, Gaza, May 19 (IPS) – Holding up an old copper key, Yousef al-Hums settles down to retell the story of his eviction from what was once his home, and now is Israel. Because [...]