Global Politics Online / IPS By Milagros Salazar LIMA, Nov 1, 2010 (IPS) – Four months after Peru’s worst toxic spill of mining waste, workers at the Caudalosa mine are demanding that it be reopened, while local communities want more cleanup of the rivers they depend on for water supplies. Caudalosa, a Peruvian-owned mining company, [...]
EUROPE: Drones may Track Migrants
November 1, 2010 By
Global Politics Online / IPS By Apostolis Fotiadis ATHENS, Nov 1, 2010 (IPS) – The notice appeared quietly on the website of Frontex, Europe’s agency to fight undocumented migration. It called for expressions of interest in demonstrating "Small UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) and Fixed systems for Land border surveillance" at its workshop. "In the domain [...]
MIDEAST: Could Have Danced All Siege
October 31, 2010 By
Global Politics Online / IPS By Eva Bartlett DEIR AL-BALAH, Oct 31, 2010 (IPS) – "I’d planned to have my wedding party on a Thursday night, when more people could come, and stay later. But because the Dabke dancers weren’t free then, I held it on a Tuesday," says Mohammed Ghronaim, 27, from Deir al-Balah, [...]
Haitian Mothers Find Care in Dominican Republic, but Future Is Bleak
October 30, 2010 By
Global Politics Online / IPS By Elizabeth Eames Roebling SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic, Oct 29, 2010 (IPS) – In the spacious lobby of the Nuestra Señora de Altagracia maternity hospital, more than a hundred people wait quietly in chairs, overlooked by a 20-foot-high coloured mosaic inset portraying the patron saint of the Dominican Republic. One [...]
ECUADOR: Diversity in Remembering the Dead
October 30, 2010 By
Global Politics Online / IPS By Gonzalo Ortiz QUITO, Oct 30, 2010 (IPS) – Tens of thousands of Ecuadorians are set to visit cemeteries on Tuesday, the traditional "Día de Finados" (Day of the Deceased). But while city residents tend to spend the day in mourning, for many indigenous peoples it is a day of [...]
RIGHTS-PAKISTAN: Death Row Convicts Bear Brunt of Torture
October 30, 2010 By
Global Politics Online / IPS By Zofeen Ebrahim KARACHI, Pakistan, Oct 30, 2010 (IPS) – As if being sentenced to death is not enough punishment, those on death row in Pakistan are also among those being singled out for abuse by jail personnel. This is according to rights groups that are already up in arms [...]
SWAZILAND: Scramble to Meet Shortfall in Food Aid
October 30, 2010 By
Global Politics Online / IPS By Mantoe Phakathi MANZINI, Swaziland, Oct 30, 2010 (IPS) – November will see the World Food Programme launch its Food by Prescription programme in Swaziland, but tens of thousands in urgent need of food aid are set to go without as a donor shortfall restricts assistance. It has now been [...]
U.S. Slides on Corruption Index
October 30, 2010 By
Global Politics Online / IPS By William Fisher NEW YORK, Oct 29, 2010 (IPS) – Iraq and Afghanistan rank near rock-bottom in an index of corruption in 178 countries that found that nearly three- quarters of the countries surveyed showed serious corruption problems. Iraq ranked 175 and Afghanistan 176 in the global index, just above [...]
BRAZIL: Substantive Issues Missing from Election Campaign
October 30, 2010 By
Global Politics Online / IPS By Fabiana Frayssinet RIO DE JANEIRO, Oct 30, 2010 (IPS) – In Brazil, 136 million voters will head to the polls in Sunday’s presidential runoff election, after a campaign heavy on recriminations and moralistic attacks and weak on substantive issues. The elections have been "tough and tense," said analyst Jairo [...]
