Global News Blog – Global Analyst / IPS By Ansel Herz PORT-AU-PRINCE, Oct 22, 2010 (IPS) – Some 1.3 million people have lived in makeshift camps throughout Port-au-Prince since the January earthquake devastated the city. Living conditions are "appalling", according a recent report by Refugees International. But one bright spot of the multi-billion-dollar relief effort,…
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Oct
24
HAITI: Health Workers Scramble to Keep Cholera out of Crowded Camps
Oct
24
BRAZIL: Environment Meets Development en Route to the Pacific
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Mario Osava RIO BRANCO, Brazil, Oct 22, 2010 (IPS) – Acre, the small Brazilian state that is a symbol of the struggle to preserve the Amazon rainforest, is facing the challenge of ensuring that the development ushered in by two paved roads that will link the state…
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Oct
24
Cuban Treatment for Diabetic Foot Ulcers Heads for Europe
Global News Blog – Global Analyst / IPS By Patricia Grogg HAVANA, Oct 22, 2010 (IPS) – Cuba’s biotechnology industry is hoping to conquer the European Union market with Heberprot-P, a therapeutic drug used to prevent foot amputations in patients with diabetes. Heberprot-P, developed by the Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology Centre (CIGB), stimulates tissue healing…
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Oct
22
Hard to Put a Price-tag on Healthy Rivers
Global News Blog – Global Analyst / IPS By Stephen Leahy NAGOYA, Japan, Oct 22, 2010 (IPS) – Damming a river may bring electric power, but it often comes at the price of high-quality food fisheries, experts say. When dams are proposed for power, flood control or irrigation, the often devastating impacts on fisheries in…
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Oct
22
U.S.: Report Details Tea Party Ties with Hate Groups
Global News Blog – Global Analyst / IPS By William Fisher NEW YORK, Oct 21, 2010 (IPS) – Asserting that "the majority of Tea Party supporters are sincere, principled people of good will", the head of the National Association of Colored People (NAACP) and other U.S. civil rights leaders are calling on the populist political…
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Oct
20
CHINESE SUPPRESSION OF TIBETAN LANGUAGE LEADS TO PROTESTS
GNB’s Global Analyst B.RAMAN In the wake of the first Xinjiang Work Conference held at Beijing from May 17 to 19, 2010, to draft a blueprint for the Chinese-controlled province’s economic development until 2020, the Chinese authorities had embarked on a campaign in Xinjiang, which de-emphasised the Uighur ethnic identity of the province and highlighted…
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Oct
20
AGENDA FOR OBAMA’S VISIT: COUNTER-TERRORISM
GNB’s Global Analyst B.RAMAN Indo-US co-operation in counter-terrorism has the following components: * Assistance in capacity building in traditional counter-terrorism: Started in the early 1980s during the administration of Ronald Reagan when some officers of the Intelligence Bureau (IB) and the Research & Analysis Wing (R&AW) were sent initially to the UK and then…
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Oct
20
CHINA: On the Thousand Mothers March
Global News Blog – Global Analyst / IPS By Ida Karlsson STOCKHOLM, Oct 20, 2010 (IPS) – Rebiya Kadeer has taken up a campaign for the rights of a people usually far from world headlines: the Uyghurs, a predominantly Muslim minority in China. Before she was arrested and imprisoned for nearly six years for criticising…
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Oct
19
MAURITIUS: Social Ills Prevail Despite Meeting MDGs
Global News Blog – Global Analyst / IPS By Nasseem Ackburally PORT-LOUIS, Oct 19, 2010 (IPS) – The small island state of Mauritius is the only African country likely to meet all eight of the United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015 – at least on paper. But its citizens say government could do…
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Oct
19
MIDEAST: Earning a Living in No Man’s Land
Global News Blog – Global Analyst / IPS By Mel Frykberg EREZ BORDER CROSSING, Northern Gaza, Oct 19, 2010 (IPS) – Crossing through the metal-caged tunnel that leads from the Israeli side of the border into northern Gaza towards the Palestinian checkpoint, several groups of young Palestinian men and boys can be seen scavenging through…
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