SOUTH AFRICA: Redouble Efforts to Reduce Maternal Mortality
Patrick BurnettCAPE TOWN, Sep 10 2009 (IPS) - For Katriena Anthony, being four months pregnant comes with hazards particular to...
GENDER: U.N. Women’s Treaty Weakened by Slew of Reservations
Thalif DeenUNITED NATIONS, Dec 8 2009 (IPS) - A landmark U.N. treaty on women s rights, which will be 30...
HEALTH: U.S. Urged to Double Aid to Global Projects
Matthew BergerWASHINGTON, Oct 29 2009 (IPS) - As the effort to achieve universal health coverage within the U.S. crawls forward...
WATER: Poor Sanitation Killing Liberia’s Young
Rebecca MurrayMONROVIA and BOPOLU, Liberia, Nov 23 2009 (IPS) - Nineteen-year-old Beauty Phillips clutches her emaciated baby tightly to her...
RIGHTS-INDIA: Hi-Tech Beats Sex Selection Ban
Ranjit DevrajNEW DELHI, Dec 21 2009 (IPS) - When a magistrate in the western port city of Mumbai convicted two...
HAITI: Displaced Women Face Double Jeopardy
Marguerite A. SuozziUNITED NATIONS, Feb 3 2010 (IPS) - Women s rights and development activists working in Haiti say that...
LATIN AMERICA: Abortion – Still Illegal, Still Killing, Despite Growing Awareness
Estrella GutiérrezCARACAS, Mar 10 2010 (IPS) - Although most of the governments in Latin America today are described as progressive,...
DEVELOPMENT: Farmers on Fringe of Intl Agriculture Policy?
Stephen LeahyMONTPELLIER, France, Apr 14 2010 (IPS) - How s this for short-sighted: A billion people go hungry every day,...
PERU: Glass of Milk Half Empty
Ángel PáezLIMA, May 14 2010 (IPS) - The Glass of Milk Programme, created in 1985 in Peru to provide a...
UGANDA: Too Young to Know, Yet Too Young to Die
Evelyn Matsamura KiapiKAMPALA , Jun 28 2010 (IPS) - Thirteen-year-old Jacinta Okello and her fellow primary school classmates call it...