The week With IPS 4/11

	Trauma Still Fresh for Rwanda’s Survivors of Genocidal Rape Fabiola Ortiz Claudine Umuhoza’s son turned 19 this Apr. 1. And while he may be one of at least thousands of children who were conceived during the Rwandan genocide, he’s not officially classified as a survivor of it. But his mother is. Two decades after the massacre — during which almost one million minority ... MORE > >
	Soaring Child Poverty – a Blemish on Spain Inés Benítez “I don’t want them to grow up with the notion that they’re poor,” says Catalina González, referring to her two young sons. The family has been living in an apartment rent-free since December in exchange for fixing it up, in the southern Spanish city of Málaga. Six months ago González, 40, and ... MORE > >
	New Treatments May Defuse Viral Time Bomb Cam McGrath Mohamed Ibrahim first learned he had hepatitis C when he tried to donate blood. Weeks later he received a letter from the blood clinic telling him he carried antibodies of the hepatitis C virus (HCV). He most likely acquired the disease from a blood transfusion he received during surgery when he ... MORE > >
	Colombia’s Breadbasket Feels the Pinch of Free Trade Helda Martínez “Things are getting worse and worse,” Enrique Muñoz, a 67-year-old farmer from the municipality of Cajamarca in the central Colombian department of Tolima, once known as the country’s breadbasket, said sadly. “Over the past five decades, the situation took a radical turn for the worse,” activist ... MORE > >
	On 20th Anniversary of Genocide, Rwanda’s Women Lead Fabiola Ortiz When Rwandan Member of Parliament Veneranda Nyirahirwa was just a girl, she wasn’t allowed to attend secondary school because of her ethnicity. It was only in the wake of the country’s state-driven genocide in 1994 — where almost one million minority Tutsis and moderate Hutus lost their lives ... MORE > >
	Taliban Provokes New Hunger for Education Ashfaq Yusufzai Following scattered defiance of the Taliban earlier, a new wave of students is now heading for education in schools and colleges across the troubled north of Pakistan. “There is a steady increase in enrolment of students because parents have realised the significance of education, and now they ... MORE > >
	Italian Doctors Abort a Law Silvia Giannelli Two out of three doctors in Italy are ‘conscientious objectors’ to abortion, according to new data. The Italian Ministry of Health reveals that in 2011, 69.3 percent of doctors refused to carry out abortions, with peaks of over 85 percent in some regions. In the face of such numbers, the ruling ... MORE > >
	Brazilian Dams Accused of Aggravating Floods in Bolivia Franz Chávez Unusually heavy rainfall, climate change, deforestation and two dams across the border in Brazil were cited by sources who spoke to IPS as the causes of the heaviest flooding in Bolivia’s Amazon region since records have been kept. Environmental organisations are discussing the possibility of ... MORE > >