The Week with IPS 8/8

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	Ugandan Women Hail Partial Success Over “Bride Price” System Wambi Michael After years of a protracted battle against Uganda’s “bride price” practice, the country’s Supreme Court this week ruled that husbands can no longer demand that it be returned in the event of dissolution of a customary marriage but has stopped short of declaring the practice itself ... MORE > >
	Mexico's Anti-Poverty Programmes Are Losing the Battle Emilio Godoy While most of Latin America has been reducing poverty, Mexico is moving in the other direction: new official figures reflect an increase in the number of poor in the last two years, despite the billions of dollars channeled into a broad range of programmes aimed at combating the problem. The ... MORE > >
	Fish Farming Now a Big Hit in Africa Jeffrey Moyo Hillary Thompson, aged 62, throws some grains of left-over rice from his last meal, mixed with some beer dregs from his sorghum brew, into a swimming pool that he has converted into a fish pond. “For over a decade, fish farming has become a hobby that has earned me a fortune,” Thompson, who ... MORE > >
	U.N. Targets Trillions of Dollars to Implement Sustainable Development Agenda Thalif Deen After more than two years of intense negotiations, the U.N.’s 193 member states have unanimously agreed on a new Sustainable Development Agenda (SDA) with 17 goals -- including the elimination of extreme poverty and hunger -- to be reached by 2030. At a press briefing Monday, Ambassador Macharia ... MORE > >
	Zimbabwe's Climate Change Ambitions May be Too Tall Ignatius Banda With the U.N. Climate Change conference later this year in Paris fast approaching, Zimbabwe's climate change commitments face the slow progress on an issue that continues to stalk other developing countries – climate finance. As it prepares for the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change ... MORE > >
	‘Permaculture the African Way’ in Cameroon’s Only Eco-Village Mbom Sixtus Marking a shift away from the growing trend of abandoning sustainable life styles and drifting from traditional customs and routines, Joshua Konkankoh is a Cameroonian farmer with a vision – that the answer to food insecurity lies in sustainable and organic methods of farming. Konkankoh, who ... MORE > >
	Opinion: RIP Cecil the Lion. What Will Be His Legacy? And Who Decides? Dr. Rosie Cooney Cecil the lion, a magnificent senior male, much loved and part of a long-term research project, was lured out of a safe haven in Zimbabwe's Hwange National Park last week and apparently illegally shot, to endure a protracted death. As the global outrage pours out, consider for a moment that ... MORE > >
	Belo Monte Dam Marks a Before and After for Energy Projects in Brazil Mario Osava Paulo de Oliveira drives a taxi in the northern Brazilian city of Altamira, but only when he is out of work in what he considers his true profession: operator of heavy vehicles like trucks, mixers or tractor loaders. For the past few months he has been driving a friend’s taxi at night, while ... MORE > >
	‘Ambassadors of Freedom’ – Palestine’s Resistance Babies Silvia Boarini Thirteen-year-old Hula Khadoura sits on a large sofa in her grandfather’s home in the neighbourhood of Tuffah, Gaza City, her one-year-old twin brothers Karam and Adam on her lap. “I am so happy they arrived,” she beams, holding the babies’ feeding bottles in her hands. There is an aura of ... MORE > >
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