Occupy Wall Street – A Citizen’s Movement Spreads Like Wildfire

As the Occupy Wall Street movement gathers momentum, activists, union members and community groups continue to gather every day in downtown Manhattan, as well as in a growing number of cities across the United States. On Oct. 5, more than 10,000 people marched in New York to express their anger at growing economic inequality, focused on the "one percent" who take home 24 percent of national income and own half of the country's stocks, bonds, and mutual funds, but owe only five percent of the nation's personal debt.

Dr Amor Boubakri – Professor of Law, University of Sousse

DEATH PENALTY: On Popular Demand By Sanjay Suri LONDON, Sep 27, 2011 (IPS) - The image endures of the death penalty in force across the Arab world because it is considered somehow Islamic, and because most regimes are undeniably autocratic. But campaigners on the ground say the death penalty might just be in place because the people want it. Which would make it in essence a democratic institution. ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=105252

Tanya Awad Ghorra AUNOHR

DEATH PENALTY: On Popular Demand By Sanjay Suri LONDON, Sep 27, 2011 (IPS) - The image endures of the death penalty in force across the Arab world because it is considered somehow Islamic, and because most regimes are undeniably autocratic. But campaigners on the ground say the death penalty might just be in place because the people want it. Which would make it in essence a democratic institution. ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=105252

Not in the Name of the Quran

Dr. Mohammad Al-Habash, director of the Islamic Studies Centre in Damascus speaks to IPS on the Death Penalty. Read more: ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=105191

Lao Women Take A Bow

Lao women artists have been trying to create more space in arts, literature and performance circles for discussion of issues relevant to women, but the path to doing this has not always been easy. Against this backdrop, the recognition that they received in the 2011 artist awards in Laos was a long-awaited one. Video report by Vannaphone Sitthirath for IPS Asia-Pacific.

Do more than talk say gender activists

Gender activists at the fifth SADC water dialogue, in Swaziland, say the time for talking about gender and poverty reduction is past; they say action is now needed to address the needs of the poor in Africa.

Mario Lubetkin – IPS Award 2008

 

Mario Lubetkin – Tierramerica

 

Lula – IPS Award 2008

 

Mario Lubetkin | Lula – IPS Award 2008

 

Enrique Iglesias – IPS Award 2008

 

Healthier Kids Healthier Development by Vannaphone Sitthirath

 

DEVELOPMENT: Women Leading Bangladesh Away from the LDC Tag | LDC-IV

“In the garments sector we have a revolution," Nasreen Awal Mintoo, president of the Women Entrepreneurs Association of Bangladesh, told IPS. A women-led revolution, she says, that will help uplift the entire country. Sanjay Suri reports from the fourth United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries in Istanbul, Turkey. ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=55656

DEVELOPMENT: Chinese Step In, Efficiently | LDC-IV

For Jany Chen, CEO of Shanghai Environmental Group, concern often raised in Europe and North America about the Chinese invasion of Africa is a lot of wasteful talk that deserves to be flushed down the toilet. Sanjay Suri reports from the fourth United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries in Istanbul, Turkey. ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=55652

SOUTH UNITES FOR LDCs, Sanjay Suri reports for IPS from LDC-IV in Istanbul

Within the broad failure of the weeklong Fourth U.N. Conference on the Least Developed Countries (LDC-IV) in Istanbul that concluded Friday, many delegates are taking heart in a strengthening South-South front that has emerged. “We would like to push for greater South-South cooperation because in our opinion it's one way for LDCs to have more political autonomy to design their own policies and formulate their own priorities, and to implement policies that are in the best interests of their citizens.” ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=55629

BIZARRE BAZAAR: Market Forces Rise Above Declarations | LDC-IV

At the Fourth U.N. Conference on the Least Developed Countries in Istanbul, a battery of Turkish companies set up stalls at a bazaar, eager to sell to businesses from the LDCs. Sanjay Suri reports on this “private sector track” of the conference that ran parallel to the meetings' gabfest.

LDCs CANNOT CONTINUE TO WAIT FOR WTO DEAL, Sanjay Suri from IPS speaks with Valentine Rugwabiza of the WTO.

We are not at the origins of this impasse, we are not the ones preventing the round from progressing, but we are the ones who are going to pay the highest cost,” Rugwabiza told IPS. LDCs are seeking a mini trade deal ahead of any worldwide agreement under the Doha Round of trade negotiations. The talks - underway since 2001 - have slowed to almost a halt, and the rise of emerging Southern economies has made the donor-client rhetoric of many players in the talks increasingly irrelevant. ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=55590

POPULATION: Promise Rises With a Problem | LDC-IV

ISTANBUL, May 10, 2011 (IPS) - On the face of it, a rapidly rising population among the Least Developed Countries (LDCs) spells the usual doom about adequate resource distribution. But the least developed are also among the youngest in the world - and well channelled, they can be a valuable asset, United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) head Babatunde Osotimehin told IPS.

IPS Gender and Development Glossary

 

Food security in Bolivia

 

Hopewell Football Club: playing to win

Youth in rural South Africa have taken a leadership role in promoting safer sex