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\n IPS Inter Press Service News Agency – Journalism and Communication for Global Change

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Pacific Climate Change Warriors Block World’s Largest Coal\nPort

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Climate Change Warriors from 12 Pacific Island nations\npaddled canoes into the world’s largest coal port in Newcastle,\nAustralia, Friday to bring attention to their grave fears\nabout the consequences of climate change on their home\ncountries. The 30 warriors joined a flotilla of hundreds of\nAustralians in kayaks and on surfboards to delay eight of the\n[…]
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OPINION: Iraq’s Minorities Battling for Survival

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Mark Lattimer is the Executive Director of Minority Rights\nGroup (MRG) International and Mahmoud Swed works for MRG's\nCeasefire Project.
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Israel Planning Mass Expulsion of Bedouins from West\nBank

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Thirty-year-old Naifa Youssef and 50 other members of her\nBedouin community live a precarious life, eking out a hand-to-mouth\nexistence alongside the main road which links Jerusalem with the\nDead Sea and the ancient city of Jericho. Home for this community,\neast of Jerusalem, comprises a collection of shanty structures and\nhovels as well as […]
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History of Key Document in IAEA Probe Suggests Israeli\nForgery

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Western diplomats have reportedly faulted Iran in recent\nweeks for failing to provide the International Atomic Energy Agency\nwith information on experiments on high explosives intended to\nproduce a nuclear weapon, according to an intelligence document the\nIAEA is investigating. But the document not only remains unverified\nbut can only be linked to Iran by […]
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Family Farmers – Forward to the Future

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\“Who is more concerned than the rural family with regards to\npreservation of natural resources for future generations?\” Pope\nFrancis posed the question in a message read by Archbishop Luigi\nTravaglino, Permanent Observer of the Holy See for the celebration\nof World Food Day on Oct. 16 at the headquarters of the U.N. Food\nand […]
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OPINION: The Survivors

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Yury Fedotov is Executive Director of the UN Office on Drugs\nand Crime
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Mexico’s Cocktail of Political and Narco-Violence and\nPoverty

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The images filled the front pages of Mexico’s newspapers: 61\nhalf-dressed state policemen kneeling, with their hands tied, in\nthe main square of the town of Tepatepec in the central state of\nHidalgo, while local residents threatened to burn them alive. It\nwas Feb. 19, 2000. The reason the townspeople were furious was the\npolice […]
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Women’s Leadership Central to Poverty Eradication

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The twenty-first century will be the century for ending\ninequality, patriarchy and discrimination against women once and\nfor all, Lakshmi Puri, UN Assistant Secretary General and Deputy\nExecutive Director of UN Women said Thursday. Speaking on the\noccasion of the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty,\nPuri added that the gender equality and poverty […]
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Writing the Final Chapter on AIDS

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Although AIDS has defied science by killing millions of\npeople throughout Africa in the last three decades, HIV experts now\nbelieve that they have found the magic numbers to end AIDS as a\npublic health threat in 15 years. The magic numbers are 90-90-90\nand are informed by growing clinical evidence showing that HIV\ntreatment […]
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Pressure Building on Obama to Impose Ebola Travel Ban

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President Barack Obama is under significant pressure to\nimpose a range of restrictions on travellers coming to the United\nStates from West African countries affected by the current Ebola\noutbreak. Yet public health experts and development advocates warn\nthat such restrictions would harm the already reeling economies of\nEbola-hit countries in the region, and squeeze […]
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Cash-Strapped Human Rights Office at Breaking Point, Says New\nChief

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After six weeks in office, the new U.N. High Commissioner for\nHuman Rights (UNHCHR) Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein of Jordan launched a\nblistering attack on member states for insufficient funding,\nthereby forcing operations in his office to the breaking point \“in\na world that seems to be lurching from crisis to ever-more\ndangerous crisis.\” \“I am […]
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Bamboo Could Be a Savior for Climate Change,\nBiodiversity

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Bamboo Avenue is a two-and-a-half mile stretch of road in\nJamaica’s St. Elizabeth parish. It is lined with giant bamboo\nplants which tower above the road and cross in the middle to form a\nshady tunnel. The avenue was established in the 17th century by the\nowners of the Holland Estate to provide shade for […]
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Panama’s Coral Reefs Ringed with Threats

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Fermín Gómez, a 53-year-old Panamanian fisherman, pushes off\nin his boat, the \“Tres Hermanas,\” every morning at 06:00 hours to\nfish in the waters off Taboga island. Five hours later he returns\nto shore. Skilfully he removes the heads and scales of his catch of\nsea bass, snapper, marlin and sawfish. He delivers the cleaned\n[…]
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Vanishing Species: Local Communities Count their\nLosses

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The Mountain Chicken isn’t a fowl, as its name suggests, but\na frog. Kimisha Thomas, hailing from the Caribbean island nation of\nDominica, remembers a time when she could find these amphibians or\n‘crapaud’ as locals call them \“just in the backyard\”. Known also as\nthe Giant Ditch Frog, these creatures form a crucial part\n[…]
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Kyrgyzstan Looks to Alternative Fuels Ahead of Looming Winter\nShortages

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Each winter in Kyrgyzstan the energy situation seems to\nworsen; blackouts last longer, and officials seem less able to do\nanything to improve conditions. This year is expected to be\nparticularly difficult. The winter heating season has not even\nbegun and already lots of people are bracing for months of\nhardship. A video, posted Oct. […]
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Boycott USA, Implores Chomsky

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Professor Noam Chomsky, a renowned political activist and one\nof the strongest critics of U.S. foreign policy, called on the\nboycott movement to penalize the United States for the suppression\nof Palestinians. Chomsky suggested that if the Boycott, Divestment\nand Sanctions (BDS) Movement is going to hold Israel up for\nrepressing Palestinians, it should move […]
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Ethiopia Shows Developing World How to Make a Green Economy\nProsper

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Ethiopia has experienced its fair share of environmental\ndamage and degradation but nowadays it is increasingly setting an\nexample on how to combat climate change while also achieving\neconomic growth.  \“It is very well known by the international\ncommunity that Ethiopia is one of the front-runners of\ninternational climate policy, if not the leading African […]
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Africa Can Be its Own ‘Switzerland’

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Africa has the capacity to access at least 200 billion\ndollars for sustainable development investment but it will remain a\nslave to foreign aid unless it improves the climate for investment\nand trade and plugs illicit financial flows, development experts\nsay. \“Africa is not poor financially but it needs to get its house\nin order,\” […]
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Despite Public’s War Weariness, U.S. Defence Budget May\nRise

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Despite the public’s persistent war weariness, the U.S.\ndefence budget – the world’s biggest by far – may be set to rise\nagain, according to a new study released here this week by the\nCenter for International Policy (CIP). The 41-page study,\n\“Something in the Air: ‘Isolationism,’ Defense Spending, and the\nU.S. Public Mood,\” concludes […]
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High-Tech, High Yields: Caribbean Farmers Reap Benefits of\nICT

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Farmers in the Caribbean are being encouraged to make more\nuse of farm apps and other forms of ICT in an effort to increase\nthe knowledge available for making sound, profitable farming\ndecisions. Peter Thompson of Jamaica’s Rural Agricultural\nDevelopment Authority (RADA) said Geographic Information Systems\n(GIS) technology is being increasingly used to track \“localised\n[…]
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