DEVELOPMENT-KENYA: Rapid Population Growth Threatens Development
Susan Anyangu-Amu NAIROBI, Mar 15 2010 (IPS) – Margaret Atieno, a 38-year-old mother of six, says she wanted to avoid…
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Will Polio Go the Way of Smallpox?
Armin Rosen UNITED NATIONS, Apr 20 2010 (IPS) – Only one disease has ever been totally eradicated by human beings:…
INDIA: Rising Use of Emergency Contraceptives Raises Alarm
Manipadma Jena NEW DELHI, May 21 2010 (IPS) – When Sunita Sanyal (last name changed) complained of intense headache and…
CHINA: School Attacks Expose Quiet Crisis Around Mental Illness
Mitch Moxley BEIJING, Jul 4 2010 (IPS) – When a distraught landlord wielding a kitchen cleaver stormed into a kindergarten…
HEALTH: Kenyans’ Right to Affordable Drugs in Hands of Court
Suleiman Mbatiah NAIROBI, Jul 22 2010 (IPS) – Kenya s Constitutional Court is due to set a date on Jul…
Mississippi Shrimpers Refuse to Trawl, Fearing Oil, Dispersants
Dahr Jamail* – IPS/IFEJ BILOXI, Mississippi, Aug 20 2010 (IPS) – The U.S. state of Mississippi recently reopened all of…
Summit Failure on Water, Sanitation Would Be Recipe for Disaster
Thalif Deen STOCKHOLM, Sep 13 2010 (IPS) – A weeklong international conference here has transmitted a strong political message to…
Water, Sanitation Gain Traction as Basic Human Rights
Thalif Deen UNITED NATIONS, Oct 7 2010 (IPS) – When the 47-member Human Rights Council (HRC) affirmed last week that…
CARIBBEAN: Progress Stalls on HIV/AIDS
Peter Richards PHILIPSBURG, St. Maarten, Nov 3 2010 (IPS) – Despite the gains associated with antiretroviral treatments (ART) over the…
Q&A: Revitalising Agriculture Starts in a Small Field
Cléo Fatoorehchi interviews Olivier de Schutter, the U.N. Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food UNITED NATIONS, Dec 8 2010…