Stories written by Kanya D'Almeida
Kanya D'Almeida is a Sri Lankan journalist, currently based in Washington D.C. Kanya joined IPS as a United Nations correspondent in October 2010, where she covered the Millennium Development Goals with a strong focus on gender and ecological justice in Asia, Africa and the Middle East and the problems of neocolonial development in the global South. As IPS's Washington, D.C. correspondent, she monitors the global impacts of the Bretton Woods institutions, United States economic and foreign policy in the global South, the actions of transnational corporations and both national and international ecological crises. Kanya earned her B.A. from Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts, where she completed a double major in political science and fiction writing, and produced a book of essays and short stories on women and war in Sri Lanka. She is currently a member of Scientific Soul Sessions, in Harlem, New York.

At the Nexus of Agrofuels, Land Grabs and Hunger – Part 2

By Kanya D'Almeida
The forests in Africa absorb over 1.2 billion tonnes of carbon annually. With these diverse and natural forests, grasslands and prairie lands disappearing under investment schemes and the development of monoculture plantations for supposed "green" energy alternatives like agrofuels, not much else remains to absorb the shocks of hunger and climate change.

At the Nexus of Agrofuels, Land Grabs and Hunger – Part 1

By Kanya D'Almeida
While the United Nations climate talks in Durban enter their ninth day of political feet-dragging, researchers and peasants around the world are busy connecting the dots between so- called "green climate solutions", industrialised agriculture and chronic hunger.

U.S. Inaction on Climate is “Criminal”, Activists Say

By Kanya D'Almeida
The United States' delegation at the 17th annual Conference of the Parties (COP) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UN FCC) in Durban, South Africa has come under heavy fire from civil society leaders and activists around the globe for standing in the way of real solutions to climate change.

Poverty and Racism Fuel HIV/AIDS Epidemic in U.S.

By Kanya D'Almeida
On World AIDS Day, all eyes are fixed on the global south, where a preventable HIV/AIDS epidemic across Asia, Africa and Latin America has infected almost 33 million people.

For Big Financial Institutions, Profit Trumps Women’s Rights

By Kanya D'Almeida
This year, for the first time, the World Bank dedicated its 2012 annual flagship World Development Report to women as indispensable players in the global economy and launched a media campaign to "think equal".

To Women’s Rights, Financial Institutions Pay Lip Service Only

By Kanya D'Almeida
On day seven of "the 16 days of activism to end violence against women" campaign, women's rights organisations around the world are asking what the biggest international financial institutions (IFIs) are really doing to protect women's rights, which are under daily assault.

US: Battered Bodies, Broken Families: Remembering Immigrant Women

By Kanya D'Almeida
Today marks the first of "16 Days of Activism Against Gender Based Violence", a campaign launched in 1991 to insist that 'women's rights are human rights'.

U.S.: Occupy Movement Pushes Back in Coordinated Day of Action

By Kanya D'Almeida
Tens of thousands of people in hundreds of cities across the country flooded streets, public squares and university campuses in the largest nationwide action since the first group of occupiers set up its encampment in New York City exactly two months ago Thursday.

U.S.: The ‘School to Prison Pipeline’: Education Under Arrest

By Kanya D'Almeida
Metal detectors. Teams of drug-sniffing dogs. Armed guards and riot police. Forbiddingly high walls topped with barbed wire.

Can BRICS Make a Difference at Busan? – Part 2

By Kanya D'Almeida
While experts are hopeful that blocs of emerging market economies like BRICS – Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa – will play a major role in the upcoming aid effectiveness conference in Busan, South Korea, others fear that the new players do not yet have the fiscal power to make a serious intervention in fora generally dominated by rich donor states.

Can the BRICS Make a Difference At Busan? – Part 1

By Kanya D'Almeida
As shock waves from Greece's economic crisis emanate across the Eurozone and the Occupy protests in the U.S. grow bolder in their critique of the dominant neoliberal system, it seems clear to many observers that the old hegemonic economic order is fading fast.
Demonstrators with the Occupy Seattle Movement march through downtown, ending with a rally in front of the Bank of America headquarters. Credit: Tyler Stringfellow/IPS

U.S.: Who is the 99 Percent? – Part 2

By Kanya D'Almeida
While the Occupy movements sweeping the U.S. have become almost synonymous with democracy, consensus-based processes, human microphones and other symbols of unity, many populations in the country have felt isolated by the language and tactics of the movement.
Clarence Thomas of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union and a former Black Panther stressed the need for the 99 percent to come together. Credit: Judith Scherr/IPS

U.S.: Who is the 99 Percent? – Part 1

By Kanya D'Almeida and Judith Scherr
Barely a month after the first group of protesters set up its encampment in Zuccotti Park in New York City, the phrase "We are the 99 percent" has already become legendary.

Climate Solutions Need Strong Decision-Making

By Kanya D'Almeida
The year 2010 endured 950 natural disasters, 90 percent of which were weather-related and cost the global community well over 130 billion dollars.

World Bank Reveals Crippling Donor Dependency in West Bank, Gaza

By Kanya D'Almeida
The World Bank drew attention to the ongoing devastation wrought by one of the world's longest standing conflicts with the publication Monday of a report documenting high levels of donor dependency in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip.
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