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. [...]
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 [...]
BRAZIL: Sugarcane Alcohol Tarnished by U.S. Maize Ethanol
May 9, 2008 By
Global News Blog / IPSFriday May 9, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Mario Osava RIO DE JANEIRO, May 9 (IPS) – Recent efforts by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva to clearly mark the difference between Brazilian ethanol and the agrofuels produced by the United States are an admission that [...]
EAST TIMOR: No Solution In Sight For Army Deserters
May 4, 2008 By
Global News Blog / IPS Sunday, May 04, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Setyo Budi DILI, May 5 (IPS) – While Gastao Salsinha — leader of the group of renegades accused of attempting to assassinate President Jose Ramos-Horta on Feb. 11 — has surrendered, there is little sign of amicable [...]
RIGHTS: In South Africa, Zimbabwean Refugees Find Sanctuary and Contempt
May 4, 2008 By
Global News Blog / IPS Sunday, May 04, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Michael Deibert JOHANNESBURG, May 4 (IPS) – As the autumn sun sets over South Africa’s most populous city, the halls of downtown Johannesburg’s Central Methodist Mission fill with weary figures, many far from home, seeking solace within [...]
Q&A: ”We Mustn’t Think as South Africans That We Have Won the Day”
May 4, 2008 By
Global News Blog / IPS Sunday, May 04, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Interview with Paul Verryn JOHANNESBURG, May 4 (IPS) – Bishop Paul Verryn, who directs the Central Methodist Mission in Johannesburg, South Africa, has long been on the frontlines of the country’s political struggles. Born in 1952 in [...]
BANGLADESH: Amnesty for Tainted Tycoons as Economy Flags
May 2, 2008 By
Global News Blog / IPS Friday, May 02, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Farid Ahmed DHAKA, May 2 (IPS) – Bangladesh’s military-backed interim government hopes that a ‘truth commission’ it plans to set up will give tainted businessmen an opportunity to revive their businesses and help put a badly flagging [...]
RIGHTS: Renditions Ruin the EU Case
May 2, 2008 By
Global News Blog / IPS Friday, May 02, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. By David Cronin BRUSSELS, May 2 (IPS) – Collusion between European Union governments and a secret U.S. torture and kidnapping programme has damaged the EU’s efforts to promote human rights throughout the world, an internal paper drawn [...]
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 [...]