The Week With IPS 5/2

	Displaced and Disturbed in Pakistan Ashfaq Yusufzai Every night in his sleep, Rizwan Ahmed sees his sons being killed. “When he wakes up, he starts crying. He realises they are dead and it was the nightmare he has been having,” says Dr. Mian Iftikhar Hussain, the psychiatrist treating him. Ahmed, 51, used to be a school employee in Bara Khyber ... MORE > >
	No Choice But To Work Without Pay Stella Paul The southern Indian city Hyderabad is witnessing a construction boom as it prepares to become the joint capital of two states - Andhra Pradesh and the soon to be formed Telangana. Buildings are coming up in almost every neighbourhood. Under one such building coming up, three-year-old Amlu is ... MORE > >
	Face of Slave Labour Changing in Brazil Fabiola Ortiz The upcoming mega sporting events in Brazil are paving a new route for slave labour among those migrating from rural areas to the cities in search of work. The dream of a good job draws many rural migrants from Brazil’s poorest regions, as well as neighbouring countries, to try their luck in big ... MORE > >
	DR Congo’s Red Light to Invention Taylor Toeka Kakala "There are several robots in the world, but that one which regulates traffic is made in Congo," Thérèse Izayi, a female engineer and the Congolese inventor of two very unusual traffic signals, tells IPS. Situated at an intersection on Triumphal Boulevard, near the Democratic Republic of ... MORE > >
	Governments Crushing Their Own Catherine Wilson The global spectre of state violence against political dissent, with paramilitary law enforcement units advancing against citizens they are employed to protect in cities such as Cairo, Bangkok and Kiev is daily news. But in some developing countries, the police are being used to put down indigenous ... MORE > >
	Morocco Divided Over Equality Abderrahim El Ouali Morocco stands divided over a proposal for equal inheritance rights for men and women: modernists see this as application of equality arising from the new constitution, and Islamists see in this a violation of Sharia law. There have been calls from extremists to kill those who seek equality ... MORE > >
	Egyptian Quacks Mutilate Millions Hisham Allam Saber Abd El-Mawgoud began his career castrating sheep and goats before moving on to humans. His first human experiment was a young boy he attempted to circumcise back in 1999 at the insistence of the boy’s father. The boy died a few days later of infection from the operation, Mawgoud, 67, from ... MORE > >
	Russia ‘Liquidating’ Civil Society Pavol Stracansky NGOs working in Russia are facing more repression in the form of even tighter legislation on foreign funding as part of what some rights activists say is a concerted campaign to “liquidate” civil society in the country. Under legislation proposed earlier this month in the upper chamber of ... MORE > >