The Week with IPS 12/5

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	Climate and Post-2015 Development Agenda Talks Share the Same Path Diego Arguedas Ortiz The international community’s post-2015 development agenda will depend, in key aspects, on whether the delegates of 195 countries meeting now at the climate summit in the Peruvian capital reach an agreement to reduce global warming, since climate change affects all human activity. Climate ... MORE > >
	Climate Finance Flowing, But for Many, the Well Remains Dry Desmond Brown For more than 10 years, Mildred Crawford has been “a voice in the wilderness” crying out on behalf of rural women in agriculture. Crawford, 50, who grew up in the small Jamaican community of Brown’s Hall in St. Catherine parish, was “filled with enthusiasm” when she received an invitation from ... MORE > >
	Football Stars Join ‘Africa United’ Campaign to Stop Spread of Ebola Kwame Buist The Confederation of African Football (CAF) has joined a number of football stars, celebrities, international health organisations and corporations in the ‘Africa United’ global health communications campaign aimed at preventing the spread of Ebola in West Africa. The campaign, which was ... MORE > >
	Native Villagers in Honduras Bet on Food Security – and Win Thelma Mejía The town’s dynamic mayor, Sandro Martínez, assumed the commitment of turning the Honduran municipality of Victoria into a model of food and nutritional security and environmental protection by means of municipal public policies based on broad social and community participation and international ... MORE > >
	U.N. Chief, Under Fire, Moves Closer to Gender Parity Thalif Deen When Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon named an international panel to review peacekeeping operations last October, the announcement was greeted with bitter criticism because it lacked even a semblance of gender balance: only three out of 14 members were women. And perhaps adding insult to injury, ... MORE > >
	Ebola Overshadows Fight Against HIV/AIDS in Sierra Leone Lansana Fofana The outbreak of the deadly Ebola epidemic in Sierra Leone has dwarfed the campaign against HIV/AIDS, to the extent that patients no longer go to hospitals and treatment centres out of fear of contracting the Ebola virus. “It is a big challenge for us. HIV/AIDS patients now fear going to ... MORE > >
	HIV Prevention is Failing Young South African Women Nqabomzi Bikitsha When she found out that she had human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), Thabisile Mkhize (not her real name) was scared. She knew little about the virus that had been living in her body since birth and did not know whom to ask. Her mother had just died and she lived with her grandmother in rural ... MORE > >
	Illegal Logging Wreaking Havoc on Impoverished Rural Communities Catherine Wilson Rampant unsustainable logging in the southwest Pacific Island states of Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands, where the majority of land is covered in tropical rainforest, is worsening hardship, human insecurity and conflict in rural communities. Paul Pavol, a customary landowner in Pomio ... MORE > >
	Athens Sit-in Highlights Catch-22 for Refugees Apostolis Fotiadis A sit-in protest by Syrian refugees on Syntagma Square opposite the Greek parliament in the heart of Athens has turned into a demonstration of the stalemate faced by both Greek as well as European immigration policy. About three hundred men, women and children have been on the same spot for over ... MORE > >