The Week with IPS 8/1

	Cash Transfers Drive Human Development in Brazil Fabiola Ortiz Every day, Celina Maria de Souza rises before dawn, and after taking four of her children to the nearby school she climbs down the 180 steps that separate her home on a steep hill from the flat part of this Brazilian city, to go to her job as a domestic. In the evening she makes the long trek back ... MORE > >
	Cameroon’s Muslim Clerics Turn to Education to Shun Boko Haram Ngala Killian Chimtom Motari Hamissou used to get along well with his pupils at the government primary school in Sabga, an area in Bamenda, the capital of Cameroon’s North West Region. In the past, Hamissou also lived in peace with his neighbours. No one was bothered by his long, thick beard or the veil his wife, ... MORE > >
	Bill to Fight Discrimination Against HIV-Positive Venezuelans Humberto Márquez Venezuela is gearing up to pass a new law to combat discrimination against people living with HIV/AIDS, in a country where the epidemic claims nearly 4,000 lives and infects 11,000 mainly young people every year, including increasing numbers of women. In the first debate in the single-chamber ... MORE > >
	Is Europe’s Breadbasket Up for Grabs? Kanya D'Almeida Amidst an exodus of some 100,000 people from the conflict-torn eastern Ukraine, ongoing fighting in the urban strongholds of Donetsk and Luhansk between Ukrainian soldiers and separatist rebels, and talk of more sanctions against Russia, it is hard to focus on the more subtle changes taking place ... MORE > >
	Ticking Diplomatic Clock a Cover for Israeli Assaults on Gaza Thalif Deen As the death toll in Gaza keeps climbing - and charges of alleged war crimes against Israel keep mounting - the most powerful political body at the United Nations remains ineffective, impotent and in a state of near paralysis. Perhaps by choice. The 15-member U.N. Security Council (UNSC), the ... MORE > >
	Gas and Sun Light the Way for Energy Industry in El Salvador Edgardo Ayala El Salvador is making steady progress towards diversifying its energy sources, with a plan to bolster the use of cleaner sources and achieve a substantial change in its energy mix by 2018. Projects involving clean energy, such as solar, are just getting underway in this Central American country. ... MORE > >
People Before Borders Geneviève Lavoie-Mathieu With Italy having taken over presidency of the European Union (EU) until December 2014, questions remain regarding Europe’s migration policies as reports of migrants dying at sea while trying to reach Italy regularly make the headlines. The United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) estimates that ... MORE > >
	Food – Thou Shall Not Waste Silvia Giannelli “Only two years ago, the soup kitchen was serving 50 meals a day. Today the number has almost doubled and, what is even more worrying, we have started receiving families with children,” says Donatella Turri, director of the Caritas Diocese of Lucca. The paradox is that the lengthening queues at ... MORE > >
	Outlawing Polygamy to Combat Gender Inequalities, Domestic Violence in Papua New Guinea Catherine Wilson New legislation recently passed in the southwest Pacific Island state of Papua New Guinea (PNG) outlawing polygamy has been welcomed by experts in the country as an initial step forward in the battle against high rates of domestic violence, gender inequality and the spread of AIDS. “If polygamy ... MORE > >
	Zambia Makes Progress in the Prevention of HIV Transmission From Mother to Child Chisha Mutale Chisha Mutale reports from Lusaka that substantial progress has been made against the transmission of HIV from mother to child by the the Zambian government and its cooperating partners. http://traffic.libsyn.com/ipslatamradio07/zambia_PMTCT.mp3 MORE > >
	Thousands of New Yorkers Protest Gaza Killings Kanya D'Almeida Thousands of New Yorkers took to the streets in multiple protests this past week against the Israeli offensive in Gaza, which has left at least 1,049 Palestinians dead and over 6,000 injured since Jul. 8. Among demonstrators' many demands was that the U.S. government end its massive flow of aid ... MORE > >
South Stymies North in Global Trade Talks Ravi Kanth Devarakonda A group of developing countries brought a tectonic shift at the World Trade Organization on Friday by turning the tables against the industrialised countries, when they offered a positive trade agenda to expeditiously arrive at a permanent solution for food security and other development issues, ... MORE > >
	Fish Before Fields to Improve Egypt’s Food Production Cam McGrath Less than four percent of Egypt’s land mass is suitable for agriculture, and most of it confined to the densely populated Nile River Valley and Delta. With the nation’s population of 85 million expected to double by 2050, government officials are grappling with ways of ensuring food security and ... MORE > >