HEALTH: Poor States Should Start Campaign to Extend Patent Rights
Julio GodoyPARIS, May 30 2011 (IPS) - Pharmaceutical industries in emerging markets are shifting their focus away from poor to...
Sanitation Moves Up Global Development Agenda
Sunaina PereraUNITED NATIONS, Jul 19 2011 (IPS) - With nearly 40 percent of the world s population lacking adequate sanitation,...
UGANDA: In Search of Better Medical Care
Wambi MichaelBUDUDUA, Uganda, Jul 13 2011 (IPS) - Even though government health services are free, Grace Nafungo Kutosi doesn t...
UGANDA: Post War Reconstruction Ignores Victims of Sexual Violence
Rosebell KagumireLIRA, Uganda, Aug 12 2011 (IPS) - Ester Abeja has experienced both physical and emotional atrocities. She was captured...
Uneven Results in Bid to Halt Needless Mother and Child Deaths
Elizabeth WhitmanUNITED NATIONS, Sep 21 2011 (IPS) - Political, private sector and civil society leaders from around the world gathered...
CANADA: Harper Government Guts Environment Programmes
Stephen LeahyUXBRIDGE, Canada, Nov 9 2011 (IPS) - Canada s Stephen Harper government is spending more than 60 billion dollars...
ZAMBIA: “People Are Not Dead Until They Have Died”
Jorrit Meulenbeek* - IPS/Street News ServiceLUSAKA, Dec 26 2011 (IPS) - I had no power, I could not even walk....
GUATEMALA: Zero Hunger Plan Must Focus on Production, Experts Say
GUATEMALA CITY, Feb 21 2012 (IPS) - “We don’t want a repeat of welfare-oriented programmes, because they are unsustainable,” said...
Memories of Osh Violence Continue to Haunt Kyrgyz Children
Correspondents* - IPS/EurasiaNetBISHKEK, Mar 30 2012 (IPS) - The physical damage done to Osh, the city in southern Kyrgyzstan that...
Caste Blocks Revamp of Nepal’s Sex Workers
MUDA, Nepal, May 7 2012 (IPS) - Social activists say that attempts to rehabilitate sex workers in this former monarchy...