RIGHTS: Indigenous People Hopeful as New U.N. Body Set to Open

The planet's indigenous people will take one step closer to a place as full partners on the world's political stage Monday, but they have no illusions about the distance remaining in their journey toward equal treatment.
https://www.ipsnews.net/2002/05/rights-indigenous-people-hopeful-as-new-un-body-set-to-open/

/MAY DAY/LABOUR-CANADA: Native Employers, Unions Tussle Over Traditions

Native leaders in a western province have vowed to block union organising at their businesses in the latest skirmish of an ongoing struggle between labour and indigenous employers.
https://www.ipsnews.net/2002/04/may-day-labour-canada-native-employers-unions-tussle-over-traditions/

LABOUR-CANADA: Skilled Immigrants Wanted, No PhD Required

Think Canada only wants immigrants with PhDs or computer degrees? Think again: Butchers and welders are just two groups that have been admitted into the country recently as one of the world's richest nations deals with a shortage of blue-collar workers.
https://www.ipsnews.net/2002/04/labour-canada-skilled-immigrants-wanted-no-phd-required/

RIGHTS: Garment Giant Confronts Honduras Labour Allegations

North America's largest T-shirt maker is to hold talks with groups in Honduras next week on working conditions in its four factories there. The company says it has met international labour standards despite recent media reports.
https://www.ipsnews.net/2002/03/rights-garment-giant-confronts-honduras-labour-allegations/

CULTURE-CANADA: Chinese New Year Brings Gambling Controversy

Ethnic Chinese here say authorities should have been sensitive to the well-known gambling problems among their people and alerted them to a proposed mini-casino in the city's Chinatown section, and to plans to print new lottery tickets featuring the lunar Year of the Horse, which begins Feb. 12.
https://www.ipsnews.net/2002/02/culture-canada-chinese-new-year-brings-gambling-controversy/

RIGHTS: Gold Industry Consolidation Seen as Threat to Locals

Consolidation among the world's largest gold companies will further diminish the influence of local communities, say mining industry watchdogs.
https://www.ipsnews.net/2002/01/rights-gold-industry-consolidation-seen-as-threat-to-locals/

RIGHTS: Canadian Natives Go International

When a Canadian Native leader threatened to expose to the world his fight with government over land wanted by a ski resort, he used a tactic that aboriginal groups have employed successfully since his father drove the Constitutional Express two decades earlier.
https://www.ipsnews.net/2001/12/rights-canadian-natives-go-international/

CULTURE-CANADA: Women Unite Against Terror Close to Home

Women representing this city's sizeable ethnic communities are banding together to fight a common enemy. Their joint efforts stand in contrast to the communal suspicion sown by the Sep. 11 terrorist attacks on the United States and attest to the power of a terror closer to home: family violence.
https://www.ipsnews.net/2001/11/culture-canada-women-unite-against-terror-close-to-home/

Forced Migration Grows, Justice Withers, Say Activists at World Social Forum

As involuntary migration rises around the world, partly in response to the impacts of climate change, justice for those leaving their homes and families to earn a living is largely missing, said activists meeting at the World Social Forum (WSF) in Kathmandu on Sunday.
https://www.ipsnews.net/2024/02/forced-migration-grows-justice-withers-say-activists-world-social-forum/

World Social Forum Insists: Another World is Possible!

These are the worst of times, but they can become the best of times, said speaker Dr. Walden Bello, seeking to inspire thousands of progressives who gathered for the World Social Forum (WSF) in Kathmandu on Thursday with the planet under clouds of armed conflict and assaults on democracy.
https://www.ipsnews.net/2024/02/world-social-forum-insists-another-world-possible/

Humanitarian Cash Not Accelerating Aid Delivery in Nepal’s Earthquake Response

Delivering humanitarian assistance in the form of cash sounds great: recipients get to choose exactly how to spend their money and aid organizations can respond faster and better track their giving.
https://www.ipsnews.net/2024/01/humanitarian-cash-not-accelerating-aid-delivery-in-nepals-earthquake-response/

Nepal Poised To Start HPV Vaccination To Prevent Cervical Cancer, Awaiting GAVI

As Dipak Subedi was organizing a vaccination programme against the human papillomavirus (HPV) in the city of Bharatpur in Chitwan district of southern Nepal he was getting phone calls from neighbouring districts asking if he had extra doses available — people were willing to travel for hours to get their girls vaccinated against HPV, which causes cervical cancer, the deadliest form of cancer for women in Nepal.
https://www.ipsnews.net/2023/07/nepal-poised-start-hpv-vaccination-prevent-cervical-cancer-awaiting-gavi/

How The Ass Used Satire To Poke Fun at Nepal’s Leaders – PODCAST

Welcome to Strive, a podcast of IPS News, where we chat with new voices about fresh ideas to create a more just and sustainable world. My name is Marty Logan. We’ve all made asses of ourselves at one time or another. But today’s guest actually made a career out of it — not of messing up but of being The Ass, the author of a satirical column that ran on the back page of the Nepali Times newspaper for more than two decades.
https://www.ipsnews.net/2023/03/ass-used-satire-poke-fun-nepals-leaders-podcast/

Measuring Human Rights – PODCAST

Welcome to Strive podcast, where we chat with new voices about fresh ideas to create a more just and sustainable world. My name is Marty Logan.
https://www.ipsnews.net/2022/09/measuring-human-rights-podcast/

School Feeding Is Now the World’s Largest Social Safety Net

When Canada and Nepal are used in the same sentence it’s usually because the former is supporting development efforts in the latter. Not when it comes to feeding children at school.
https://www.ipsnews.net/2022/04/school-feeding-now-worlds-largest-social-safety-net/

Migrant Workers’ Remittances Fund Development-Make It Easier for Them: Podcast

I hope you had a chance to listen to our last episode, Environmental disasters creating more migrants within countries. We talked about the rising number of people who are forced out of their homes because of climate or environmental disasters. Nearly 30 million men, women and children in 149 countries were displaced in 2020, temporarily or for good and the signs are, that those numbers will only grow.
https://www.ipsnews.net/2022/02/migrant-workers-remittances-fund-development-make-easier/

‘Trauma and struggle’: Being Black in America – Podcast

Today we’re talking about the aftermath of the horrendous murder of George Floyd in 2020 and the protests that ensued. But first, this is the fourth episode of the show, and we’d really like to hear what you think of it. So could you please take a minute to rate and review us on Apple Podcasts. Thank you!
https://www.ipsnews.net/2021/10/trauma-struggle-black-america-podcast/

Time Stands Still for Nepal’s Conflict Victims

“Reconstruction and reconciliation require finances and physical structure, but the families of the victims of the conflict first and foremost need their integrity protected. Physical and financial compensation mean little without justice,” wrote Suman Adhikari nearly 11 years ago, during a ceasefire in Nepal’s Maoist insurgency.
https://www.ipsnews.net/2017/07/time-stands-still-nepals-conflict-victims/

Haider Rizvi: a Rebel Who Battled Many Causes

Haider Rizvi, who spent nearly 20 years as a reporter for IPS covering the United Nations, died October 29 in Lahore, Pakistan, his home country.
https://www.ipsnews.net/2015/11/haider-rizvi-a-rebel-who-battled-many-causes/

MEDIA: Indigenous Journalists Seek Identity

Just weeks after giving up her post, the former president of the parliament of Norway's indigenous Sami people has lambasted Sami journalists for shoving aside their culture in the rush to get a 'scoop'.
https://www.ipsnews.net/2007/10/media-indigenous-journalists-seek-identity/

POLITICS-U.S.: Groups Probe FBI Spying in ‘War on Terror’

U.S. civil rights groups have filed multiple freedom of information requests around the country to uncover evidence that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and local police are spying on political, environmental and faith-based groups in the name of fighting terrorism.
https://www.ipsnews.net/2004/12/politics-us-groups-probe-fbi-spying-in-war-on-terror/