Better to Ride These Bikes Than Make Them
Cambodia’s export business is in the process of changing due to shifts in manufacturing in Asia. A business publication in the country has reported unexpected growth in the “machinery and transport...
View ArticleIndia Tightening Child Labour Laws
After one of the six males under trial for the rape and subsequent death of a 23-year-old woman was deemed an adolescent and therefore entitled to leniency, juvenile rights activists have found...
View Article24 Nails Dug Into Body, Luckily
Lahandapurege Ariyawathie feels she got off lightly – if returning home with 24 nails embedded in your body is lucky. Ariyawathie, 52, from the southern Sri Lankan district Matara, had left to work as...
View ArticleFishing Labour Out of the Dark Ages
When Ko Mynt fled poverty in Myanmar for a job in neighbouring Thailand, the thought of labouring long hours in a shrimp peeling shed was far from his mind. So was this seaside town south of Bangkok....
View ArticleLebanon in a ‘Civil War’ Over Wages
The surprise resignation of Lebanon’s Prime Minister Nijab Mikati eclipsed his last major manoeuvre, which was to refer to parliament a highly contentious wage scale hike for the public sector....
View ArticleTurkey’s Building Boom Takes Toll on Worker Safety
Relatives of victims of workplace fatalities have been staging monthly vigils in central Istanbul for the past two years, asking for those responsible for the deaths to be identified and held...
View ArticleTrade Facilitation Will Support African Industrialisation
In this column, Roberto Azevêdo, Director-General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), argues that the Trade Facilitation Agreement delivered by the Bali package in December last year will support...
View ArticlePut People Not ‘Empire of Capital’ at Heart of Development
By Ravi Kanth DevarakondaGENEVA, Oct 27 2014 (IPS)President Rafael Correa Delgado of Ecuador does not mince words when it comes to development. ”Neoliberal policies based on so-called competitiveness,...
View ArticleEscape Route Towards Social Inclusion for War-Disabled Gazan Youth
Samah Shaheen (right), one of Gaza’s many disabled young people, joined the Irada programme to acquire expertise, learn computerised wood carving and escape social marginalisation. Credit: Khaled...
View ArticleOPINION: Banks, Inequality and Citizens
In this column, Roberto Savio, founder and president emeritus of the Inter Press Service (IPS) news agency and publisher of Other News, argues that alarming figures on what has gone wrong in global...
View ArticleDecent Employment Opportunities for Young People in Rural Africa
Subsistence-oriented small-scale agriculture is often not the preferred choice of work for many young Africans. Photo credit: FAOBy Kwame BuistJOHANNESBURG, Mar 27 2015 (IPS)Over half of the African...
View ArticleOpinion: Why Are Threats to Civil Society Growing Around the World?
In this column, Mandeep Tiwana, a lawyer specialising in human rights and civil society issues and Head of Policy and Research at CIVICUS, the global civil society alliance, argues that in recent years...
View ArticleEarthquakes Don’t Kill, Buildings Do – Or Is It Inequity?
70-year-old Chiute Tamang, his wife, daughter and son-in-law lost their house when the earth shook on Apr 25, 2015 in Nepal. They now lives a one-room cabin made of a wooden skeleton encased in...
View ArticleIn Search of Jobs, Cameroonian Women May End Up as Slaves in Middle East
The lack of jobs after graduation frequently pushes Cameroonian girls into searching for work opportunities, sometimes overseas and sometimes with horrific consequences. Credit: Ngala Killian...
View ArticleInterview: “‘We’re Not Independent Enough,” says ASEAN Rights Commission Chair
By Diana MendozaKUALA LUMPUR, Nov 2 2015 (IPS)(IPS Asia-Pacific) – Although it is six years old, few know what the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights (AICHR) does. It has been called...
View ArticleFrom Bangladesh to Bihar
Chandra Mohan is an economics and business commentator.By N Chandra MohanNEW DELHI, Nov 11 2015 (IPS)Times are a-changing for Bihar, a state popularly described as a state of mind. The recent elections...
View ArticleFrom Darkness to Light: Dramatic Rescue of Tanzanian Miners Trapped 41 Days...
The five artisanal miners who narrowly escaped death last week after a 41-day ordeal in a collapsed gold mine in northern Tanzania called their experience a living hell. They went through a myriad of...
View ArticleAspects of Dualism in the Gulf
Chandra Mohan is an economics and business commentator.By N Chandra MohanNEW DELHI, Dec 3 2015 (IPS)The crash in oil prices is not the only challenge confronting the Gulf States in West Asia. Economic...
View ArticleIndia Needs to “Save its Daughters” Through Education and Gender Equality
Women constitute nearly half of the country’s 1.25 billion people and gender equality — whether in politics, economics, education or health — is still a distant dream for most. This fact was driven...
View ArticleExperts Call For Global Momentum on Gender Parity
Mary Wanja, a farmer at Ngangarithi, Kenya, using water from a stream to water her produce. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) indicates that the face of farming is still...
View ArticleAquaculture Boosts Papua New Guinea’s Food Security
The vast Sirinumu Reservoir in Central Province which supplies water and electricity to Papua New Guinea (PNG)’s capital, is home to a co-operative of 60 fish farmers who are successfully employing...
View ArticleGrowing ‘Entertainment’ Industry Traps Nepali Girls
Kathmandu's entertainment joints hire minor girls. Credit: Naresh Newar/IPSBy Naresh NewarKATHMANDU, Jul 8 2012 (IPS) Almost unnoticed, Nepal’s burgeoning adult entertainment industry has been drawing...
View ArticleUnderstanding the Roots of Ghana’s Child Labour
By Portia CroweKUMASI, Ghana, Jul 18 2012 (IPS) At eleven years old, Thema, a native of Kumasi, hopes to be a nurse when she grows up. Currently, however, she is employed wandering between taxis and...
View ArticleJustice a Long Way Off for Dead Miners
Striking miners who were relased from police custody on Sep. 3 vowed to continue fighting for a minimum monthly wage of 1,495 dollars. Credit: Nat Nxumalo/IPSBy Siyabulela DebeduJOHANNESBURG, Sep 7...
View ArticleMaldives Talks Condoms
Condom promotion campaign in Male: Credit: SHEBy Feizal SamathMALE, Sep 22 2012 (IPS) For an orthodox Islamic country, the Maldives has made remarkable progress in halting the spread of HIV in the...
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