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. [...]
RIGHTS: In South Africa, Zimbabwean Refugees Find Sanctuary and Contempt
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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 [...]
RIGHTS-BOLIVIA: Guaraní Families in Forced Servitude
May 2, 2008 By
Global News Blog / IPS Friday, May 02, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. By Bernarda Claure LA PAZ, May 2 (IPS) – Efforts by Bolivia’s land reform authorities to free 167 Guaraní families living in servitude in Alto Parapetí, a rural area in the eastern Bolivian lowlands province of Santa [...]
BOSNIA: Workers Make a Start for Rights
May 1, 2008 By
Global News Blog / IPS Thursday, May 01, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. By Zack Baddorf SARAJEVO, May 1 (IPS) – ”Parliamentarians, shame on you!” read a sign in Bosnian carried by four union workers in downtown Sarajevo. The workers hoisted the banner above their heads and joined a procession [...]
LABOUR-CUBA: The Challenge of Boosting Productivity
April 30, 2008 By
Global News Blog / IPS Wednesday, April 30, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. By Patricia Grogg HAVANA, Apr 30 (IPS) – Workers are facing thorny questions related to productivity, wages, participation in decision-making or unemployment at a time when the government is discreetly adopting measures aimed at finally pulling the [...]
