2015/3/27 | Click here for the online version of this IPS newsletter |
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Pollution a Key but Underrated Factor in New Development Goals
Stephen Leahy
Pollution is likely to be the most pressing global health issue in the
coming years without effective prevention and clean-up efforts, experts
say.
Air, water and soil pollution already kills nearly nine million people a
year and cripples the health of more than 200 million people worldwide.
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Indonesian President Unyielding on Death Penalty
Sandra Siagian
When Indonesia’s law and human rights minister visited one of the
country’s prisons in December last year, he met a Nigerian convict on
death row for drug trafficking, who performed songs for him before
leaving him with a parting gift.
“He sang beautifully,” Yasonna Laoly, the human rights ...
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Acting Tough to Earn Respect as Policewomen in Argentina
Fabiana Frayssinet
When they joined the police, Marina Faustino and Silvia Miers were part
of a small minority, and to make their way in a world of men they had to
“act tough.” Now, thanks to a gender equality policy, there are more
and more policewomen in Argentina, fighting sexism and prejudice as well
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Hold the Rich Accountable in New U.N. Development Goals, Say NGOs
Thalif Deen
When the World Economic Forum (WEF) met last January in Switzerland,
attended mostly by the rich and the super-rich, the London-based charity
Oxfam unveiled a report with an alarming statistic: if current trends
continue, the world’s richest one percent would own more than 50 percent
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Salvadoran Maquila Plants Use Gang Members to Break Unions
Edgardo Ayala
Textile companies that make clothing for transnational brands in El
Salvador are accused of forging alliances with gang members to make
death threats against workers and break up their unions, according to
employees who talked to IPS and to international organisations.
Workers at maquila or ...
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High-Tech to the Rescue of Southern Africa’s Smallholder Farmers
Kwame Buist
Agriculture is the major employer and a backbone of the economies of
Southern Africa.
However, the rural areas that support an agriculture-based livelihood
system for the majority of the nearly 270 million people living in the
region are typically fragile and there is wide variability in the ...
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Opinion: What if Youth Now Fight for Social Change, But From the Right?
Roberto Savio
The “surprise” re-election of incumbent Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu in the Mar. 17 elections has been met with a flood of media
comment on the implications for the region and the rest of the world.
However, one of the reasons for Netanyahu’s victory has dramatically
slipped the ...
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Lip-Service But Little Action on U.N. Business and Human Rights Principles in Latin America
Emilio Godoy
“I would tell institutions and companies that are aware of the enormous
damage they do to the soil, plants and the environment, to respect the
decisions of the people. They are attacking life and health,” complained
Taurino Rincón, an indigenous Mexican.
Rincón belongs to the Nahua people and is ...
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Palestinian Women Victims on Many Fronts
Mel Frykberg
Israel’s siege of Gaza, aided and abetted by the Egyptians in the south,
has aggravated the plight of Gazan women, and the Jewish state’s
devastating military assault on the coastal territory over July and
August 2014 exacerbated the situation.
In a resolution approved by the U.N. Commission on ...
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Friday, March 27, 2015
The Week with IPS 3/27
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