INDIA: Advancing Economy Reveals a Hungry Underbelly
By K. S. HarikrishnanTHIRUVANANTHAPURAM, India, Jan 21 2012 (IPS)Even a year after Rani, a three-year-old tribal girl in the backward Wayanad district of southern Kerala state, was treated in a...
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SRI LANKA: Poorest Still Go Hungry
By Amantha PereraCOLOMBO, Jan 25 2012 (IPS)Experts agree that Sri Lanka’s free pre and postnatal clinics across the island nation have helped bring infant mortality down to 15 per 1,000 live births and...
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PAKISTAN: Violence, Death Stalk Child Domestic Help
By Zofeen EbrahimKARACHI, Jan 26 2012 (IPS)“He was a happy child, my younger brother,” Mohammad Ramzan, 18, reminisced, his voice steeped in sadness. A Pakistani child domestic worker. Credit: Fahim...
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UNICEF Funding Falls Short Leaving Millions of Children at Risk
By Bari BatesBRUSSELS, Feb 3 2012 (IPS)If the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) had 1.28 billion dollars it could help 97 million people around the world. UNICEF's funding shortfall could leave...
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Africa’s Urban Slum Children Among Most Disadvantaged
Miriam GathigahBy Miriam GathigahNAIROBI, Feb 29 2012 (IPS)Each day after school, nine-year-old Nelly Wangui hurries home with a bundle of firewood balanced on her head. The paper bag in which she...
View ArticlePoverty Encourages Early Marriages in Tajikistan
Correspondents*By CorrespondentsDUSHANBE, Mar 7 2012 (IPS)When she was 16, Kibriyo Khaitova’s parents told her that if she didn’t marry, she’d soon be a spinster. So, like many girls from Tajikistan,...
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Living on a Meal a Day in Swaziland
Mantoe PhakathiBy Mantoe PhakathiMBABANE , Mar 18 2012 (IPS)Margaret Gamedze earns a living doing laundry for people in her community in Msunduza Township, which lies about a kilometre outside...
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Could the Druze Minority Tip the Scales of Syria’s Revolution?
By Mona AlamiBEIRUT, Mar 26 2012 (IPS)The Druze stronghold of Sweida, Syria, witnessed several pro-democracy protests last week. While the movement remains marginal, it is charged with symbolism: the...
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Women Lead Poverty Reduction in Bangladesh
Naimul HaqBy Naimul HaqNOAKHALI, Bangladesh, Mar 28 2012 (IPS)Kalpana Rani Pal’s pottery business is modest by any yardstick but it is small enterprises like these that are helping reduce poverty...
View ArticleAusterity Plan Decapitates Greek Cultural Heritage
By Apostolis FotiadisATHENS, Apr 9 2012 (IPS)The broken display cases at Greece’s Museum of Olympia, the site where the first Olympic Games were held thousand of years ago, have stunned members of the...
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HIV Compounds Poverty in Nepal
Women affected by HIV in western Nepal stick together to survive. Credit: Naresh Newar/IPSBy Naresh NewarRAKAM KARNALI, Western Nepal, Apr 11 2012 (IPS)Life, already hard in Nepal’s remote western...
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Rising Inequality Could be Asia’s Undoing
Donghyun Park, lead author of the ADB’s 2012 Asian Development Outlook, launched the report at Lowy Institute for International Policy, Sydney Credit: Neena Bhandari/IPSBy Neena BhandariSYDNEY, Apr 11...
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Fistula – Another Blight on the Child Bride
By Zofeen EbrahimKARACHI, Pakistan, Apr 12 2012 (IPS)It was personal experience that turned Gul Bano and her cleric husband, Ahmed Khan, into ambassadors against early marriage and its worst corollary...
View ArticleTighter Security Ignores Root Causes of Somali Crises
By Bari BatesBRUSSELS, Apr 13 2012 (IPS)As Western forces step up their military presence in Somalia, locals and experts are worried that the country – struggling under multiple crises from piracy, to...
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Bangladesh Cuts Maternal Deaths With Affordability
By Naimul HaqLALMONIRHAT, Bangladesh, Apr 19 2012 (IPS)The Aditmari Maternity Centre (AMC) is unpretentious but hygienic, and its staff of paramedics welcomes pregnant women from the poor farming...
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Millennium Goals Mock Nepal’s Slave Girls
By Naresh NewarDANG, Nepal , Apr 20 2012 (IPS)Five years after Nepal abolished Kamalari, a system of girl slavery, thousands of young women are still awaiting promised rehabilitation and support from...
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Taking Solace from a Verdict that Can’t Bring Back Loved Ones
By Mustapha DumbuyaFREETOWN, Apr 27 2012 (IPS)Saffa Momoh Lahai was just two years old when his father was killed during Sierra Leone’s civil war. Rebels attacked their family home in Kailahun...
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Caste Blocks Revamp of Nepal’s Sex Workers
By Naresh NewarMUDA, Nepal, May 7 2012 (IPS)Social activists say that attempts to rehabilitate sex workers in this former monarchy call for special efforts to uplift the Badi, a Hindu caste that has...
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