The Week With IPS 9/1/2017

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	UN Rights Chief: Trump’s Attack on Press is “Dangerous” Tharanga Yakupitiyage Freedom of the press is under attack in the United States and could incite further violence against reporters, said a UN official. Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein. Credit: UN Photo/Jean-Marc Ferré During a press conference, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein criticised U.S. ... MORE > >
	Latin America Seeks New Ways to Fight Rural Poverty Orlando Milesi Experts in Latin America warned about the serious risk that would be posed if the fight against hunger, still suffered by 33 million people in the region, is abandoned, while proposing new alternatives and insights which include linking social protection with economic growth. More than 25 ... MORE > >
	To Be a Nigerian Migrant in Italy Baher Kamal Bako* (24), a Nigerian migrant, stairs at new comers at an old, local Roman bar. Extremely polite, he asks for money. If you offer to him to buy some food instead, he immediately accepts. Interviewed for IPS by Laurent Vercken, the young Nigerian migrant tells his story: originally from Kuje ... MORE > >
	Women Play Key Role in Solar Energy Projects Rabiya Jaffery Since weather affects everyone, the idea that women are more susceptible to the effects of climate change may strike some as puzzling. However, according to a United Nations report, State of the World Population, women—particularly those in poor countries—will be affected differently than ... MORE > >
	Floods in South Asia and US: Is Climate Change the Link? Saleemul Huq In the past week, there have been devastating floods in Houston, Texas in the United States of America as well as in Nepal, India and Bangladesh, not to mention China as well. Although these events occurred in very different parts of the planet and each had somewhat unique causes and ... MORE > >
	Once Decimated by AIDS, Zimbabwe’s Khoisan Tribe Embraces Treatment Jeffrey Moyo Sixty-seven-year-old Hloniphani Sidingo gives a broad smile while popping out through the gate of a clinic in her village, as she heads home clutching containers of anti-retroviral pills. The first Bantu people to dwell in present-day Zimbabwe, the Khoisan, also known as the Bushmen or Basagwa, ... MORE > >
	"New Normal" for the U.S., All Too Familiar for the Caribbean Kenton X. Chance The government of St. Vincent and the Grenadines says it hopes that the devastating loss and damage that Hurricane Harvey has wrought in Texas might inspire the government of President Donald Trump to rethink its position on climate change. Hurricane Harvey, the strongest storm to hit the United ... MORE > >
	UN Role in Reforming International Finance for Development Jomo Kwame Sundaram Growing global interdependence poses greater challenges to policy makers on a wide range of issues and for countries at all levels of development. Yet, the new mechanisms and arrangements put in place over the past four decades have not been adequate to the growing challenges of coherence and ... MORE > >
	Protecting Africa’s Drylands Key to the Continent’s Future Sam Otieno Africa’s population continues to grow, putting intense pressure on available land for agricultural purposes and life-supporting ecosystem services even as the scenario is compounded by the adverse impacts of climate change. But the adoption of land degradation neutrality (LDN) measures is ... MORE > >
	Alliance to the Rescue of 33 Million Latin American Rural Poor Orlando Milesi “There are 33 million rural dwellers in Latin America who are still living in extreme poverty and can’t afford a good diet, clothes or education, and we are not going to help them move out of poverty if we use the same strategies that worked 20 years ago,” FAO regional representative Julio Berdegué ... MORE > >
	On Climate Finance, "The SIDS Can't Wait" Desmond Brown Saint Lucia's Prime Minister Allen Chastanet warns that the clock is running out for small states such as those in the Caribbean as they struggle to develop infrastructure capable of withstanding changes in weather conditions - and that wealthier nations need to step up levels of aid. “There is ... MORE > >
	Global Warming Puts Asia’s Vital Yields at High Risk IPS World Desk While mainstream media have been widely reporting on the dramatic consequences of tropical storm Harvey in the United States, which has been characterised as the fiercest hurricane to hit this country in over a decade, global warming is expected to have a significant impact on “future yields of ... MORE > >
	Forced Evictions, Rights Abuses of Maasai People in Tanzania Baher Kamal Indigenous Maasai people in Loliondo region,Tanzania have been facing new cases of forced evictions and human rights violations, a major international organisation supporting indigenous peoples' struggle for human rights and self-determination warned. “Forced and illegal evictions of Maasai ... MORE > >
	St. Lucia’s PM on Climate Change: “Time Is Against Us” Desmond Brown A Caribbean Community (CARICOM) prime minister has reiterated the call for developed countries to assist Small Island Developing States (SIDS) in their quest to combat the effects of climate change. The Saint Lucian leader, Allen Chastanet, said time is running out for small states such as those ... MORE > >
	Geothermal - a Key Source of Clean Energy in Central America Edgardo Ayala Energy from the depths of the earth - geothermal - is destined to fuel renewable power generation in Central America, a region with great potential in this field. “Volcanoes have always been a menace to humanity but now in El Salvador they are a resource to generate clean, renewable and cheap ... MORE > >