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Q&A: Zimbabwean Women Have Had ‘‘More’’ Trauma After Independence
14 09 2008 CAPE TOWN, Sep 13 (IPS) - Zimbabwean women have experienced higher levels of trauma, including violence and lack of food, after the country's independence from Britain in 1980 than before.
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POLITICS: U.N. Warns of Impending Development Emergency
13 09 2008 UNITED NATIONS, Sep 12 (IPS) - The much-ballyhooed Millennium Development Goals (MDGs ) -- which include the reduction of extreme poverty and hunger by 50 percent by 2015 -- are being seriously undermined by food, financial and climate change crises.
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TRADE-SOUTHERN AFRICA: The Deal’s Signed But Where’s The Action?
13 09 2008 HARARE, Sep 12 (IPS) - Cross-border trader Florence Tjani is sceptical about the free trade agreement (FTA) recently signed by southern African states.
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DEVELOPMENT-MALAWI: Irrigation Promises to Increase Food Security
13 09 2008 LILONGWE, Sep 12 (IPS) - Wyson Chandanga, a small-holder Malawian farmer from the northern district of Mzimba, does not care if the country receives enough rain this year. He is also not concerned on whether the rains come on time or not.
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ASIA PACIFIC: MDGs - Children Under Five Straggling
13 09 2008 BANGKOK, Sep 12 (IPS) - Children under five years across Asia and the Pacific are being left behind in the race to reduce poverty even as the region boasts impressive strides in meeting major United Nations development goals.
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Q&A: Zimbabwean Women Have Had ‘‘More’’ Trauma After Independence
13 09 2008 CAPE TOWN, Sep 13 (IPS) - Zimbabwean women have experienced higher levels of trauma, including violence and lack of food, after the country's independence from Britain in 1980 than before.
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BRAZIL: Parties Fielding Too Few Women in Local Elections
12 09 2008 RIO DE JANEIRO, Sep 11 (IPS) - There are still too few women on the lists of candidates for Brazil’s municipal elections in October -- another example of the distance between political parties and society which has led to the loss of credibility of political institutions.
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BOLIVIA: "Twenty Families Are Obstructing Governability" - Expert
10 09 2008 LA PAZ, Sep 10 (IPS) - The Bolivian government's determination to hold a referendum, by presidential decree, on a new constitution that it hopes will "re-found" the nation as a "plurinational state," has ceded to pressure from the rightwing opposition. The vote has been postponed several weeks, and Congress will be setting the rules.
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DEVELOPMENT-ETHIOPIA: Understanding Poverty's Impact on Children
10 09 2008 ADDIS ABABA, Sep 9 (IPS) - When the school bell rings, Alemtsehay and her three younger sisters rush home to change out of their school uniforms and into tattered clothes to go out begging around Bole Road, one of Addis Ababa's smarter areas.
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TRADE-KENYA: A Woman Navigating the Obstacles to the ‘Big Money’
09 09 2008 NAIROBI, Sep 9 (IPS) - ‘‘I enjoy the trade,’’ says Sonia Gateri as she ushers me into her office next to the Yaya Centre in the Kenyan capital. It is a hot afternoon and she has been busy most of the morning, preparing for a trip to Tanzania later in the evening.
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ECONOMY: Increased Nuclear Energy Demand Boosts Namibia
09 09 2008 WINDHOEK, Sep 9 (IPS) - The worldwide scramble for energy sources due to dwindling fossil fuel reserves has placed renewed emphasis on nuclear energy as solution for future needs. As a result, Namibia in south-western Africa is experiencing a uranium boom.
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TRADE-KENYA: A Woman Navigating the Obstacles to the ‘Big Money’
09 09 2008 NAIROBI, Sep 9 (IPS) - ‘‘I enjoy the trade,’’ says Sonia Gateri as she ushers me into her office next to the Yaya Centre in the Kenyan capital. It is a hot afternoon and she has been busy most of the morning, preparing for a trip to Tanzania later in the evening.
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AGRICULTURE-MALAWI: Going Against the Grain on Subsidies
06 09 2008 LILONGWE, Sep 5 (IPS) - In each of the past three growing seasons, the family of Bernadette Banda, in Chidambo village in the central region of Malawi, has doubled the maize harvest from the family plot, thanks to a government input subsidy programme.
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LATIN AMERICA: Food Price Hikes Hit Poor Hard - ECLAC
06 09 2008 SANTIAGO, Sep 5 (IPS) - The countries of Latin America have coped relatively well so far with the rising global food and fuel prices. But the main challenge they face is to focus more attention on the plight of the poor, experts said at a seminar being held in the Chilean capital.
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PERU: Small Towns Face Challenge of Using Windfall Mining Revenues
05 09 2008 LIMA, Sep 5 (IPS) - Peru is enjoying a mining boom. But while some areas lacking in minerals and oil have seen very little of the windfall profits, other districts have taken in so much money that they have only been able to actually use a tiny portion of it.
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DEVELOPMENT: U.N. Warns of Faltering Goals on Aid, Trade
05 09 2008 UNITED NATIONS, Sep 4 (IPS) - When the United Nations approved a set of development goals on poverty, health, gender empowerment, and sustainable environment back in September 2000, it laid down a deadline of 2015 to reach these targets.
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DEVELOPMENT: Coming Together To Aid the Poor
04 09 2008 ACCRA, Sep 2 (IPS) - In what is turning out to be hard-fought negotiations between rich and poor nations, more than 1,000 government and civil society delegates are gathered in the Ghanaian capital to agree the best ways to deliver and administer aid.
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DEVELOPMENT-SWAZILAND: Don't Blame Donor Dependency
04 09 2008 MBABANE, Sep 3 (IPS) - What happens to a nation whose people depend on the largesse of international donor agencies for their existence, once support is withdrawn?
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NICARAGUA: Name and Identity for Thousands of Indigenous Children
02 09 2008 BILWI, Nicaragua, Sep 2 (IPS) - Some 250,000 indigenous children and adolescents who had no legal identity in Nicaragua are in the process of being registered -- an essential step towards achieving recognition of their basic human rights.
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SIERRA LEONE: Building Peace
02 09 2008 FREETOWN, Sep 2 (IPS) - Sierra Leone has been a major recipient of foreign aid since the end of a devastating 11-year civil war in 2002. But government, donors and citizens are all questioning how effectively this aid is being used.
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DEVELOPMENT: Coming Together To Aid the Poor
02 09 2008 ACCRA, Sep 2 (IPS) - In what is turning out to be hard-fought negotiations between rich and poor nations, more than 1,000 government and civil society delegates gathered in the Ghanaian capital yesterday to agree the best ways to deliver and administer aid.
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DEVELOPMENT: Accra Agenda for Action - A Step Backwards?
02 09 2008 ACCRA, Sep 1 (IPS) - Ahead of the Third High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness (HLF3), opening in Accra on September 2nd, representatives of civil society at a parallel forum have raised concerns that the HLF could represent a step backwards in efforts to improve aid effectiveness.
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WORLD-DEVELOPMENT: ‘‘It’s the Same Talking and Talking’’
02 09 2008 ACCRA, Sept 1 (IPS) - About a 1,000 delegates are expected to take up their seats tomorrow at a high level forum on the effectiveness of aid that opens in Ghana’s capital, Accra. But their arrival has been met with mixed reactions.
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WORLD-DEVELOPMENT: ‘‘It’s the Same Talking and Talking’’
01 09 2008 ACCRA, Sept 1 (IPS) - About a 1,000 delegates are expected to take up their seats tomorrow at a high level forum on the effectiveness of aid that opens in Ghana’s capital, Accra. But their arrival has been met with mixed reactions.
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DEVELOPMENT: Peace Baskets Bring Hope to Rwandan Women
01 09 2008 KIGALI, Aug 31 (IPS) - In the courtyard of a red brick home in the district of Gitarama outside Kigali, three women sit together on a bench, laughing and gossiping as they wrap lengths of crimson twine around a curl of bunched straw. While it may seem like little more then Rwandan tradition, these weavers represent an economic success the tiny landlocked country has earned by the hands of its women.
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