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Zanzibar’s Encroaching Ocean Means Less Water
Khadija Komboani’s nearest well is filled with salt water thanks to the rising sea around Tanzania’s Indian Ocean island of Zanzibar. And until recently, the 36-year-old mother of 12 from Nungwi village in Unguja on the northernmost part of Zanzibar, spent most of her day walking to her nearest fresh water supply to collect safe [...]
(Wed, 12 Jun 2013 05:23:45 +0000)

Scales Tip Towards Women in Jewish Religious Rights Struggle
The struggle for gender equality and Jewish pluralism took a highly symbolic turn on Sunday at the Western Wall, Judaism’s most revered site and emblem of unity, as a group of women known as “Women of the Wall” prayed legally and in a way they saw fit. For 24 years, the Women of the Wall, [...]
(Wed, 12 Jun 2013 03:14:27 +0000)

Cairo’s Poor Convert Kitchen Waste Into Fuel Savings
The bio-gas digester on the roof of Hussein Farag’s apartment in one of Cairo’s poorest districts provides a daily supply of cooking gas produced from the kitchen waste his family would otherwise discard in plastic bags or empty into the clogged sewer below his building. Constructed of two large plastic tubs and mostly recycled materials, [...]
(Wed, 12 Jun 2013 02:08:19 +0000)

Globe Less Peaceful Than Five Years Ago – Report
The world – especially the Greater Middle East – has become less peaceful than it was five years ago, according to the 2013 edition of the annual Global Peace Index (GPI) released here Tuesday by the Institute for Economics & Peace (IEP). Consistent with that trend, the Index also found that global peacefulness declined over [...]
(Wed, 12 Jun 2013 01:20:51 +0000)

U.S. Regulatory System “Stymied by Special Interests”
A broad-based alliance of public interest and other groups is warning that years of attacks by business interests has made the U.S. regulatory so inefficient that public safety is being put at risk. The groups, under the umbrella of the Coalition for Sensible Safeguards (CSS), are urging the White House and U.S. Congress to institute [...]
(Wed, 12 Jun 2013 00:47:49 +0000)

Q&A: U.N. Looks to High Seas to Alleviate Food Crisis
IPS U.N. Bureau Chief Thalif Deen interviews DR. PALITHA KOHONA, co-chair of the Working Group on Conservation of Marine Resources Beyond National Jurisdiction
(Tue, 11 Jun 2013 17:46:07 +0000)

Labour Violations Under Tight Wraps in Thailand
Next time you visit Walmart and throw that packet of frozen shrimp in your shopping cart, pause a moment. The shrimp would most likely have travelled from Thailand, the world’s top exporter of seafood since 2004, where reports of abuse of migrant workers have recently cast an unflattering shadow over the industry. A Jun. 6 [...]
(Tue, 11 Jun 2013 17:33:33 +0000)

OP-ED: Are We at the Tipping Point for Ending Hunger and Malnutrition?
Author Malcolm Gladwell draws on the science of epidemiology in his book “The Tipping Point” to explain how ideas spread through a population, in the same way as an infectious disease can proceed from a few cases to a full-blown pandemic. In previous years I have worked on HIV and influenza pandemics: I have seen [...]
(Tue, 11 Jun 2013 17:14:51 +0000)

When the Train Passes, But Never Arrives
The continuous transport of coal for export through northern Colombia offers little more than dust and noise to the rural communities who watch the trains pass by.
(Tue, 11 Jun 2013 15:31:54 +0000)

Ukraine Injects Addicts With Hope
As former presidents, senior diplomats and experts meet in the Lithuanian capital to discuss a litany of rights abuses, lethal epidemics and social destruction caused by repressive drug policies in Eastern Europe and Central Asia, pockets of hope for drug reform are emerging across the region. Eastern Europe and Central Asia (EECA) is home to [...]
(Tue, 11 Jun 2013 14:46:34 +0000)