MEXICO: Recurring Risks from Radioactive Materials
Emilio GodoyMEXICO CITY, Apr 18 2011 (IPS) - Mexico needs to take urgent steps to tighten oversight of the storage, handling and disposal of radioactive materials that can threaten the…
Emilio GodoyMEXICO CITY, Apr 18 2011 (IPS) - Mexico needs to take urgent steps to tighten oversight of the storage, handling and disposal of radioactive materials that can threaten the…
Isolda AgazziGENEVA, May 19 2011 (IPS) - The World Health Assembly could adopt landmark resolutions asking governments to improve water and sanitation to eradicate cholera and guinea worm, the latter…
Amantha PereraCOLOMBO, Jun 16 2011 (IPS) - With the monsoon season upon it, Sri Lanka s war against the deadly dengue- carrying mosquito faces its toughest test yet, but early…
Portia CroweNEW YORK, Jul 1 2011 (IPS) - Just 100 days after a deadly earthquake and tsunami devastated the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan, concerns are being raised…
Pavol StracanskyBUDAPEST, Aug 7 2011 (IPS) - The introduction of some of Europe s most far-reaching taxes on unhealthy foods has sparked renewed debate about the effect of such levies…
Christian PapeschUNITED NATIONS, Sep 12 2011 (IPS) - Cell phones and computer applications can help save the lives of thousands of mothers and children worldwide. Tembli, a patient at Nolungile…
Stephen LeahyUXBRIDGE, Canada, Nov 1 2011 (IPS) - Mountains of hazardous waste grow by about 40 million tons every year. This waste, mostly from Europe and North America, is burned…
Amantha PereraVAVUNIYA, Dec 18 2011 (IPS) - There are times when Thiyagarajah Santhirakumaran, 35, wishes that he had died in Sri Lanka s civil war. There is peace now, but…
BUENOS AIRES, Feb 13 2012 (IPS) - Mental health professionals in Argentina have accumulated such a wealth of experience in treating victims of state terrorism that they are now sharing…
Matthew CardinaleATLANTA, Georgia, Mar 16 2012 (IPS) - With increasing concerns about the economy and environmental sustainability on the minds of many U.S. citizens, leaders in the grassroots movement to…
NEW DELHI, Apr 27 2012 (IPS) - Ignoring widespread concern over the safety, efficacy and cost of pentavalent vaccines, India’s central health ministry has, this month, approved inclusion of the…
BUENOS AIRES, Jun 1 2012 (IPS) - A new approach to mental health care is slowly making headway in Argentina, against heavy resistance. Based on short-term hospitalisation, fewer psychiatric hospitals,…
Director of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV and AIDS (UNAIDS) Caribbean Regional Support Team, Dr. Ernest Massiah. Credit: Desmond Brown/IPSBASSETERRE, St. Kitts, Jul 19 2012 (IPS) - Thirty…
UNITED NATIONS, Sep 11 2012 (IPS) - World Water Week recently concluded in Stockholm with a special emphasis on the linkages between water and food security. Lakshmi Puri. Credit: UN…
The destroyed Tabu neighbourhood at Gadarfai in southern Libya. Credit: Rebecca Murray/IPS.KUFRA, southern Libya, Oct 20 2012 (IPS) - Safia’s six-year-old body is riddled with scars from the rocket that…
A small-scale gold miner shows off his earnings for the day. Credit: chuck624/cc by 2.0GEORGETOWN, Guyana, Nov 26 2012 (IPS) - As regional delegates meet to discuss a legally binding…
A Santiago demonstration calling for decent minimum wages is violently repressed in July 2012. Credit: Fernando Fiedler /IPSSANTIAGO, Jan 18 2013 (IPS) - Chile s positive economic performance in 2012…
Smog over Los Angeles, California. Credit: Steven.Buss/cc by 2.0WASHINGTON, Mar 29 2013 (IPS) - Environmentalists and public health advocates are lauding a key, long-awaited proposal put forward by President Barack…
Many of the workers who survived the factory collapse in Bangladesh have lost their limbs. Credit: Naimul Haq/IPSDHAKA, May 20 2013 (IPS) - “It was dark and hot with choking…
Jane Meriwas (l) addresses women from the Samburu community, in Kipsing Plains in Kenya’s Rift Valley region, about harmful cultural practices. Courtesy: Jane MeriwasNAIROBI , Jun 11 2013 (IPS) -…
A major diversion project threatens to choke Mongolia's Orkhon River, the longest in the country. Credit: Michelle Tolson/IPSSELENGE PROVINCE, Mongolia, Jul 19 2013 (IPS) - Tsetseghkorol, a Mongolian herder, stares…
Alfalfa is the fourth-widest grown crop in the United States. Credit: Public domainWASHINGTON, Sep 13 2013 (IPS) - With state and federal government agencies investigating a U.S. farmer’s complaint that…
In Uganda, two percent of women of a reproductive age have experienced fistula, according to the Uganda Demographic Health Survey 2011. Credit: Amy Fallon/IPSKAMPALA , Nov 19 2013 (IPS) - Ever…
Pakistani NGOs fear that a new law will restrict civil society freedom. Credit: Irfan Ahmed/IPS.LAHORE, Pakistan, Dec 31 2013 (IPS) - A new policy by the Pakistani government to regulate…
WASHINGTON, Mar 7 2014 (IPS) - The U.S. government is in the final stages of weighing approval for an overhaul of regulations governing the country’s poultry industry that would see…
USAID relief commodities at the Port-au-Prince airport are readied for distribution, Jan. 17, 2010. Credit: Candice Villarreal/U.S. NavyWASHINGTON, Apr 28 2014 (IPS) - Lawmakers here may roll back recent landmark…
An old woman stands in front of her house, which was destroyed by flash floods in Sri Lanka. Credit: Amantha Perera/IPSBANGKOK, Jun 25 2014 (IPS) - A consortium of faith-based…
Messages of sympathy adorn a street in Melbourne. Credit: Diana G Mendoza/IPSMELBOURNE, Jul 25 2014 (IPS) - The 20th International AIDS Conference concluded today as the first in its history…
7 Countries, 7 Stories – A Global Approach to Reproductive Health and Family PlanningChief Yahya Louche of Bande, a village in Niger, addresses his constituents about maternal health and the…
Women protest insecurity and living conditions at a tent camp in central Port-au-Prince, January 2011. Credit: Ansel Herz/IPSUNITED NATIONS, Oct 31 2014 (IPS) - Can violence against women be prevented…
Children with congenital disorders linked to the Bhopal gas leak gather at a candlelight vigil. Credit: Chingari TrustNEW DELHI, Jan 11 2015 (IPS) - Three decades after 40 tons of…
Neeraj Jain is Chief Executive for WaterAid India.Sanitation infrastructure in India’s sprawling slums remains a massive challenge. Credit: Malini Shankar/IPSNEW DELHI, Feb 24 2015 (IPS) - Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s…
A crowd gathers to watch an intoxicated youth as a police officer comes to his rescue in Nyeri town, Central Kenya. Credit: Miriam Gathigah/IPSNAIROBI, Mar 27 2015 (IPS) - Despite…
Prof Grace Irimu shows IPS a drip feed bag and a copy of Kenya’s ‘Basic Paediatric Protocols’ as she explains the importance of intravenous treatment in saving the lives of…
A group of children use bottle caps to create the red ribbon that symbolises the fight against AIDS, in one of the awareness-raising activities carried out in Latin America. Credit:…
Nora Pavón and one of her daughters in the informal garbage dump behind their home. The swamp acts as a sewer in Villa Inflamable, in the suburb of Avellaneda on…
In the country’s capital, Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff oversees one of the military operations against the Aedes Aegypti mosquito carried out at a national level in the last few days…
LIVINGSTONE, Zambia, May 9 2016 (IPS) - Over 600 delegates representing at least 570 million farms scattered around the world gathered in Zambia from May 4-7 under the umbrella of…
Zimbabwean farmer and beekeeper Nyovane Ndlovu with some of the honey produced under his own label. Credit: Busani Bafana/IPS BULAWAYO, Zimbabwe, Jun 15 2016 (IPS) - “It is everything” is…
Despite being one of the biggest grain producers of the world, India lags behind on food security with nearly 25 percent of its population going to bed hungry. Credit: Neeta…
FAO acting regional representative Eve Crowley (C) during the launch of the Panorama of Food and Nutrition Security in Latin America and the Caribbean 2016, at FAO headquarters in Santiago.…
Yemen 2017 Humanitarian Needs Overview. Credit: Fragkiska Megaloudi / OCHAROME, Apr 19 2017 (IPS) - With 18.8 million people –nearly 7 in 10 inhabitants in need of humanitarian aid, including…
UNITED NATIONS, Jul 3 2017 (IPS) - World hunger has increased, reversing years of progress, said a UN specialised agency. During its biennial conference held in Rome, Italy from 3-8…
Anis Chowdhury, a former professor of economics at the University of Western Sydney, held senior United Nations positions during 2008–2015 in New York and Bangkok. Jomo Kwame Sundaram, a former…
In this special series of reports, IPS journalists travel to the border region between Bangladesh and Myanmar to speak with Rohingya refugees, humanitarian workers and officials about the still-unfolding human…
At least 1,000 people marched in Rio de Janeiro on March 15 to protest the targeted assassination of 38-year-old political activist Marielle Franco. Credit: Mídia NinjaUNITED NATIONS, Mar 21 2018…
A lake in Ukraine, which has a relative scarcity of naturally-occurring water supplies in populated areas. Credit: Vitaliy Motrinets/cc by 4.0 KIEV, Jun 21 2018 (IPS) - A campaign to…
More money, and better spent, is what we need to end hunger and malnutritionGraziano da Silva with a group of women who are participating in a vegetable-growing project in Borno…
Roberto Savio is founder of IPS Inter Press Service and President EmeritusROME, Feb 21 2019 (IPS) - I have been a member of the first international party: the Transnational Radical…
is the United Nations Resident Coordinator to Kenya.UN Secretary General, António Guterres visiting a refugee camp in Uganda. June 2017, PHOTO//Twitter @antonioguterresNAIROBI, Kenya, Jun 20 2019 (IPS) - As the…