GUYANA: Opposition Calls for Probe into Police Abuses

When a psychotic senior superintendent of police and several subordinates sprayed three young criminal suspects with machine-gun and rifle fire for several minutes, killing all of them, early one morning in 2001, citizens in the small South American nation thought that the local police force had sunk to a new low.

VIETNAM: Prospects of Total Facebook Blackout Loom Large

While much of the world is busy chatting with friends or posting photos via Facebook, Internet users in Vietnam are worried that government restrictions on access to this popular social networking site could soon evolve into a total blackout, assuming it isn’t so yet.

DEVELOPMENT: Lights Out – World’s Poor Remain in the Dark

With the flip of a switch, a light comes on or an electric toothbrush revs to power. If service is cut, either for repairs or because of a natural cause, there will most likely be much fuss about how quickly power is restored - to people who live in the developed world.

Press Briefing with Kanayo F. Nwanze, President of IFAD

Press Briefing with Kanayo F. Nwanze, President of IFAD, 09 June 2009, Johannesburg, South Africa.

Pittsburgh G20 – Inter Press Service (IPS) – Part 3

On Friday, September 25, 2009, activists from environmental, youth, labor, church, poverty advocacy, single payer and various anti-capitalist organizations carried out a march on the G20 Summit in downtown Pittsburgh. The protest was estimated to be 5,000 strong. Filmed and edited by Jeb Sprague, for the Inter Press Service (IPS). Visit the Inter Press Website at ipsnews.net and Jeb Sprague's University website at uweb.ucsb.edu/~jhsprague/ Also for more background on the story here, read: ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnew... The music at the end of this clip is by Tristeza, check them out at myspace.com/tristeza

Pittsburgh G20 – Inter Press Service (IPS) – Part 2

On Thursday, September 24, 2009, delegates arrived at fancy hotels in downtown Pittsburgh. Thousands of police deployed around the city. Some shoppers and sightseers remained in downtown. IPS only witnessed a few dozen protestors on Thursday but a large people's march is planned for Friday, September 25th. Filmed and edited by Jeb Sprague, for the Inter Press Service (IPS).

Pittsburgh G20 – Inter Press Service (IPS) – Part 1

Footage of activists in Pittsburgh organizing against the G20 Summit, including labor, fair trade, living wage, community, and socialist organizers. The 2009 G20 Summit in Pittsburgh will be held September 24th and 25th attended by leaders from the most powerful countries. This footage was filmed on September 23rd, 2009 at the Teach-in at the Steelworkers headquarters in Pittsburgh and at the Mounumental Baptist Church 'Tent City' in Pittsburgh's The Hill district. Filmed and edited by Jeb Sprague, for the Inter Press Service (IPS).

CORRUPTION-UGANDA: Leaders’ Integrity Questioned

Seated at a u-shaped table is an assembly of middle-aged men and women clad in business suits, faces stern and expressionless. Refreshments - bottled water, sodas and giant flasks of tea - clutter the long table, competing for space with piles of documents.

PERU: Parties Thwart Public Demand for Women in Politics

Women already make up 44 percent of the active members of the country's parties, but Peruvians want to see more women in political posts. Party structures and a lack of funding for women candidates, however, conspire to hinder and even obliterate women's participation in public decision-making bodies.

POLITICS: Climate Change High on Commonwealth Agenda

It is normally a conference bringing together leaders from Britain and its former colonies.

WATER: Poor Sanitation Killing Liberia’s Young

Nineteen-year-old Beauty Phillips clutches her emaciated baby tightly to her chest. At seven months, Inga suffers from malnutrition.

MIDEAST: Threat Rises From Within

Israelis were perturbed when new recruits at a recent passing-out parade at the Western Wall in Jerusalem, the remains of Judaism's holiest site, suddenly unfurled banners reading, 'Our Sons Do Not Evacuate Jews'.

Ecobreves – MEXICO: Green Energy as Source of Jobs

The development of eco-friendly energy could produce 500,000 jobs in Mexico, according to the environmental watchdog group Greenpeace.

Ecobreves – ARGENTINA: Money Available for Eco-Projects

The "Fondo para las Américas" (Fund for the Americas), created in 1993 by Argentina and the United States, launched a new call for applications to finance projects of non-governmental organizations here that work on environmental and children's issues.

Ecobreves – HONDURAS: Potable Water Crisis in Tegucigalpa

The climate phenomenon known as El Niño is taking its toll on the Honduran capital, where water reserves are predicted to run out in six months if strict rationing measures are not taken immediately.

Ecobreves – BRAZIL: Climate Change a Boon for Sugarcane?

Sugarcane crops will see a 32-percent production boost by 2050 if the planet's average temperature increases two degrees Celsius, according to a study by Brazil's University of São Paulo conducted in the nearby sugar-producing region of Piracicaba.

POLITICS: Realities Collide at Halifax “War Conference”

While the world's top military elites gather inside a fortified hotel to discuss NATO's future, protesters question the organisation's legitimacy, secrecy, and the lack of democratic debate about the increasingly unpopular war in Afghanistan.

RIGHTS-CHAGOS: ‘My Navel is Buried There’

"We lived like fishes in the water. We were not lazy. We worked hard. We lived a very natural way of life by eating fish and green vegetables and fruits that was abundant in the forests. Nature was our refrigerator."

GENDER-AFRICA: Some Progress Amidst Continuing Challenges

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.

LEBANON: Migrant Women Dying on the Job

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.

POLITICS-BOTSWANA: I Lost the Election, But I Am a Winner

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.