The Week With IPS 5/5/2017

2017/5/5

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	Mob Killing Sparks Fresh Outrage Over Pakistan's Blasphemy Laws Zofeen Ebrahim Aimal Khan, 27, an airman in Pakistan's Air Force, warns the country will end up in the throes of mayhem if the state does not do something about the abuse of the blasphemy laws. "People will use it to settle personal scores," he said. He should know. His younger brother, Mashal Khan, 25, was ... MORE > >
	Growing Inequality under Global Capitalism Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame Sundaram Income and wealth inequality has increased in recent decades, but recognition of the role of economic liberalization and globalization in exacerbating inequality has never been so widespread. The guardians of global capitalism are nervous, yet little has been done to check, let alone reverse the ... MORE > >
	Flying Green in Bangladesh Sohara Mehroze Shachi New technology could be the answer to reducing negative climate impacts of aviation - one of the fastest-growing sources of greenhouse gases. And a recent quantitative research at North South University (NSU) of Bangladesh has found that upgrading the existing navigation system will reduce fuel ... MORE > >
	Social Forum Calls for Fight Against Corruption, to Defend the Amazon Milagros Salazar Corruption has penetrated the Amazon rainforest like an illness that infects everything, said Ruben Siqueira, coordinator of the Pastoral Land Commission (CPT), during the VIII Panamazonic Social Forum (FOSPA), which brought together in the Peruvian Amazon jungle representatives of civil society ... MORE > >
	The Very Survival of Africa’s Indigenous Peoples ‘Seriously Threatened’ Baher Kamal The cultures and very survival of indigenous peoples in Africa are seriously threatened. They are ignored, neglected and fall victims of land grabbing and land dispossession caused by extractive industries, agribusiness and other forms of business operations. These are some of the key findings ... MORE > >
	Journalist Killings in Sri Lanka Predicated on a Deadly Irony Thalif Deen The widespread belief in the politically-motivated killings of journalists in Sri Lanka is predicated on a deadly irony: the hidden hand has always been visible, but the fingerprints have gone missing. Lasantha Wickrematunge, the Sri Lankan journalist killed in 2009.The two most widely ... MORE > >
	Repression 2.0: An Updated Global Censorship Tharanga Yakupitiyage Censorship tactics have become more complex, posing new challenges for journalists and non-journalists alike, a new report finds. In its annual “Attacks on the Press” report, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has documented a range of censorship cases from around the world and ... MORE > >
	Trolling of Women Journalists Threatens Free Press Manipadma Jena “It’s not what you say that prompts it—it’s the fact that you are saying it,” says Mary Beard, a Cambridge University classics professor about online trolling. “If you venture into traditional male territory, the abuse comes anyway. It is the many ways that men have silenced outspoken women since ... MORE > >
	Caribbean Rolls Out Plans to Reduce Climate Change Hazards Desmond Brown Climate change remains inextricably linked to the challenges of disaster risk reduction (DRR). And according to the head of the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR), Robert Glasser, the reduction of greenhouse gases is “the single most urgent global disaster risk ... MORE > >
	Protection of Journalists Fails in Latin America Daniela Pastrana Mexican journalist Cecilio Pineda Brito covered drug trafficking issues in a region of the southern state of Guerrero where criminal groups are extremely powerful. In September 2015 he survived an attempt on his life, and because he was deemed at “very high risk” he became a beneficiary of the ... MORE > >
	Caribbean Scientists Work to Limit Climate Impact on Marine Environment Zadie Neufville Caribbean scientists say fishermen are already seeing the effects of climate change, so for a dozen or so years they’ve been designing systems and strategies to reduce the impacts on the industry. While some work on reef gardens and strategies to repopulate over fished areas, others crunch the ... MORE > >
	Climate-Smart Agriculture – From Tanzania to Vietnam IPS World Desk As part of efforts to move towards "climate-smart" agriculture, several countries have shared In a meeting in Rome new experiences on how to produce food in ways that help farmers cope with the impacts of climate change and to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in agriculture. The exchange took ... MORE > >