Q&A: ‘Creating Artificial Glaciers Is Simple, Easy and Replicable’
By Athar Parvaiz interviews CHEWANG NORPHEL, India's 'Glacier Man'
LADAKH, India - His is a classic case of a man’s fight against nature in this trans-Himalayan region of Ladakh, as he battles climate change.
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GENDER-AFRICA: Some Progress Amidst Continuing Challenges
By Madi Ceesay
BANJUL - The Beijing Platform for Action in 1995 set out an agenda to address gender equality in priority areas, including poverty, education, and health care. It also committed governments to address violence against women, equitable access to economic resources and decision-making power.
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LEBANON: Migrant Women Dying on the Job
By Dalila Mahdawi
BEIRUT - October and November have been bloody months for Lebanon's migrant domestic workers - over the last five weeks nine women have died. Most deaths have been reported as suicide.
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RIGHTS-MEXICO: State Held Responsible for Three Juárez Killings
By Emilio Godoy
MEXICO CITY - The families of three young women murdered in Ciudad Juárez, in the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua on the border with the United States, had to wait eight years for justice, which they finally obtained through the inter-American system.
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POLITICS-BOTSWANA: I Lost the Election, But I Am a Winner
By Vusumuzi Sifile
GABORONE - When Kgomotso Mogami threw her name into the hat to contest the Gaborone Central parliamentary seat it was easy for many people to write her off.
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CLIMATE CHANGE: The Danish Example
By Julio Godoy*
COPENHAGEN - Whether a new internationally binding treaty to reduce greenhouse gases and forestall climate change will be signed next month remains to be seen. What is clear though, is that if there is a place in the world that deserves to be the stage where this treaty ought to be signed, it is the Danish capital of Copenhagen.
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CHILE: Mapuche Detainees Say They Were Framed
By Daniela Estrada
TEMUCO, Chile - "This lie has got to end," said a sobbing Luisa Marilef, a 55-year-old Mapuche woman who says her son's arrest and prosecution under Chile's anti-terrorism law was part of a set-up by the police and prosecutors.
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Q&A: "Karzai Assigned a Rabbit to Take Care of the Carrot"
By Chris Arsenault interviews MALALAI JOYA, author and Afghan parliamentarian
VANCOUVER, Canada - In the aftermath of national elections widely condemned as fraudulent, the United States and its allies are wondering what to do about Afghanistan.
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HAITI: Shooting Incident Sparks Anger at U.N. Troops
By Ansel Herz
PORT-AU-PRINCE - Under a beating sun in the grassy field where two U.N. helicopters landed in Grand Goave last week, 19-year-old Benson Blanc moved his hands as if rapid-firing a gun into the ground in front of him and made a "tok-tok-tok-tok" sound. This is how the soldiers opened fire, he said.
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RIGHTS-LAOS: How Women Cope With Disability - Part 1
By Melody Kemp
VIENTIANE - Before 2002, Chanhpheng Sivila held training workshops for the many Lao disabled women and men at her own house.
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