Stories written by Haider Rizvi
Haider Rizvi, who spent nearly 20 years as a reporter for IPS covering the United Nations, died October 29 in a hospital in Pakistan, his home country. He was in his mid 50's. Haider began with IPS South Asia back in 1993 and eventually landed in the United States, reporting both from the IPS UN Bureau and later from Washington DC. In between, he grabbed a Master’s Degree in Journalism from Columbia University, New York. As a journalist, he was always true to his ideals of justice and equality, and a passionate advocate of the underdog. Haider’s writings faithfully reflected the causes he fought for. He advocated the rights of minorities and native Americans in the US and indigenous people in Latin America; highlighted the student protests in the US; advocated the Palestinian’s right to statehood; battled for the eradication of hunger and poverty in the developing world; joined the global campaign for nuclear disarmament and covered the “Occupy Wall Street” protests (which for him, also meant “Un-Occupy Palestine”). He was, in many ways, a prophet -- someone who saw past the veil to the terrible realities in the world. May God give him peace and bless his soul.

CORRECTION*/POLITICS: Iraq Oil-For-Food Audit Finds No Widespread Abuse

By Haider Rizvi
After spending months combing through thousands of documents and questioning scores of officials, the investigators of alleged irregularities in the U.N.-led Oil-for-Food programme in Iraq acknowledge that they have so far failed to find a smoking gun.

DEVELOPMENT-U.S.: Food Waste and Hunger Exist Side by Side

By Haider Rizvi
''Do you want these? They are so fresh,'' says Catherine, holding up a bunch of grapes she just pulled out from one of the trash bags piled up on the sidewalk. ''Take this, man. It's good too,'' adds her friend Morlan, holding out a loaf of bread.
Young people dig in the trash for food in New York City - Photo Stock

Food Waste and Hunger Exist Side by Side

By Haider Rizvi and - -
Around 100 billion pounds of food are wasted annually in the United States. It would take just one out of every 25 pounds wasted to feed the 30 million people who go hunger in this affluent nation, according to the group Food Not Bombs.

POLITICS: Iraq War Issue Dominates Massive Anti-Bush Protest

By Haider Rizvi
Despite fear of mass arrests and terror alerts issued by the authorities, hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets here denouncing the George W. Bush administration's policies and the occupation of Iraq.

POLITICS-US: Terror Alert Resounds in Muslim Communities

By Haider Rizvi
Sitting on a sofa in the corner of his living room, Robert Hall turns on the television to watch the evening news on a major network station. He tries to focus on the programme, but cannot. He turns to another station and then another. With a remote control in his right hand, he flips channels for a few minutes and then turns off the TV.

FILM-U.S.: ‘Docs’ Become Surprise Election Year Weapons

By Haider Rizvi
Millions of Americans are seeing something at movie theatres they have never witnessed in an election year.

/ARTS WEEKLY/FILM-U.S.: ‘Docs’ Become Surprise Election Year Weapons

By Haider Rizvi
Millions of Americans are seeing something at movie theatres they have never witnessed in an election year.

DEVELOPMENT: UN Pact With Business Lacks Accountability – Critics

By Haider Rizvi
U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan is under fire from the world's leading environmental and human rights groups for his perceived attempts to involve big corporations in shaping the world body's development agenda.

DISARMAMENT: U.S. Nuclear Policy Bombarded by Environmentalists

By Haider Rizvi
The George W. Bush administration is under fire from a number of U.S. lawmakers and environmental groups for pursuing efforts to produce another generation of nuclear weapons while government fails to take responsibility for cleaning up existing radioactive waste.

U.S. Nuclear Policy Bombarded by Environmentalists

By Haider Rizvi and - -
Environmental and peace activists condemn the U.S. Senate's decision to maintain a provision in the Department of Energy's budget bill to leave millions of liters of liquid radioactive waste at a site in South Carolina, where plans are afoot to process more plutonium. The 2005 Defense budget includes more than six billion dollars for research and development of new nuclear weapons.

ENVIRONMENT: Groups Press U.N. to Protect Deep Ocean Species

By Haider Rizvi
Alarmed by new studies indicating the possible extinction of thousands of species in the world's oceans, international environmental groups are demanding the United Nations take the lead in banning bottom trawl fishing on the high seas.

A Victory for Free Speech'

By Haider Rizvi and - -
Greenpeace celebrated a ruling by U.S. courts to absolve the international environmental watchdog of charges involving its protest activities. Nancy Hwa, spokeswoman for the group, dialogued with Tierramérica about the case.

IRAQ: People’s Court Pronounces U.S. Guilty

By Haider Rizvi
A people's court has pronounced the United States government guilty of committing war crimes.

DEVELOPMENT: Clean Water Access Far Short of Millennium Goal

By Haider Rizvi
Governments around the world have failed to keep their promises for providing clean water and appropriate sanitation for poor populations, pledges made two years ago at the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD), in Johannesburg.
- Mauricio Ramos.

Clean Water Access Far Short of Millennium Goal

By Haider Rizvi and - -
Two years after the World Summit on Sustainable Development, progress in access to water and sanitation is alarmingly slow, say experts. It would take double the current expenditures of 16 billion dollars a year to halve the population lacking access to clean water by 2015.
Ian Johnson. -

Investment in Development Is a 'Moral Duty'

By Haider Rizvi and - -
The World Bank's environmental and social requirements for approval of infrastructure projects are among the strictest in the world, says Ian Johnson, the institution's vice-president for sustainable development.

POLITICS: Bhopal Survivors Urge U.N. to Help

By Haider Rizvi
Disappointed after 20 years of appeals to courts and governments, survivors of the Union Carbide gas disaster in India are urging United Nations agencies to start relief and rehabilitation work in their hometown Bhopal, where hundreds of thousands of people still suffer from exposure to toxic material.

POPULATION: ‘Brain Drain’ a Headache or Cure?

By Haider Rizvi
When Shailesh migrated to the United States from his hometown in Nepal a few years ago, he worried often how he would find enough work to survive. But within a few months he got the job of his choice, something that many among his fellow immigrants would describe as a lottery ticket.

POLITICS-U.N.: U.S. Pushes Plan to Go After Suspected WMDs

By Haider Rizvi
The United States is pressing the U.N. Security Council to endorse a draft resolution that would allow the use of force against "entities and individuals" suspected of trying to develop, possess or transfer weapons of mass destruction (WMD), diplomats and observers here say.

HEALTH-U.S.: No Room for Ailing Aliens?

By Haider Rizvi
In a long line of patients outside the emergency room of a busy New York hospital, Francisco Garcia finds it hard to stand on his two feet at ease as he waits his turn to see a doctor.

HEALTH-U.S.: No Room for Ailing Aliens?

By Haider Rizvi
In a long line of patients outside the emergency room of a busy hospital here, Francisco Garcia finds it hard to stand on his two feet at ease as he waits his turn to see a doctor.
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