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April 30, 2021

Online Violence: Weaponization of Deeply Rooted Misogyny, Sexism & Abuse of Power

Every time a woman journalist receives threats of physical and sexual violence, cyber attacks and surveillence, doxxing, public humiliation, damage to her professional & personal credibility, the driving forces behind these intents are deeply rooted misogyny, sexism and abuse of power.
https://www.ipsnews.net/2021/04/online-violence-weaponization-deeply-rooted-misogyny-sexism-abuse-power/
April 15, 2021

People’s Leader: A Dalit Woman Becomes The Voice of Farmers In India

On 12 January this year, somewhere in the outskirts of the capital, New Delhi, 24 year old Dalit activist Nodeep Kaur was arrested by the Haryana police for protesting outside a factory. During the lockdown in 2020, Nodeep joined a local workers’ rights organization called Mazdoor Adhikar Sangathan (MAS) in the Kundli Industrial Area in Haryana. In January Nodeep was accused of allegedly manhandling management and staff of an industrial area during a protest and also assaulting the police team.
https://www.ipsnews.net/2021/04/peoples-leader-dalit-woman-becomes-voice-farmers-india/
March 6, 2021

International Women’s Day, 2021
Women Must Continue To Claim Power & Challenge The Unseen Barriers

Power is an intriguing concept and it means different things to different people. In simple words, power is the ability to influence the behavior of others to get what you want. Power distribution is usually visible in most societies when there is a clear and obvious division between the roles of the men and expectations from women. One can’t talk about power without talking about patriarchy - in which men always hold the power and women are largely excluded from it. Women are almost always taught power and ambition are two dirty words, and should not be linked to their personalities.
https://www.ipsnews.net/2021/03/international-womens-day-2021women-must-continue-claim-power-challenge-unseen-barriers/
February 22, 2021

Is This The End of Myanmar’s Quasi-Democracy?

On February 1st, 2021 the military of Myanmar overthrew the country’s democratic government in a coup d’etat followed by arresting more than 40 government officials including Aung San Suu Kyi. The military declared a year-long state of emergency under the rule of it’s Commander-in-Chief Senior General Min Aung Hlaing. Troops took over the streets, a night-time curfew has been put into force. Tens of thousands of protestors have taken to the streets across Myanmar, in what is seen as the biggest street protests in more than a decade. The anti-coup demonstrators are undeterred by police attacks and increasing violence from the security forces.
https://www.ipsnews.net/2021/02/end-myanmars-quasi-democracy/
February 15, 2021

Peace in Yemen, But not Without Women’s Role in Peacebuilding

The armed conflict in Yemen which has lasted six years, has killed and injured over thousands of civilians, displaced more than one million people and given rise to cholera outbreaks, medicine shortages and threats of famine. By the end of 2019, it is estimated that over 233,000 Yemenies have been killed as a result of fighting and the humanitarian crisis. With nearly two-thirds of its population requiring food assistance, Yemen is also experiencing the world's worst food security crisis. The United Nations has called the humanitarian crisis in Yemen “the worst in the world”.
https://www.ipsnews.net/2021/02/peace-yemen-not-without-womens-role-peacebuilding/
February 8, 2021

Is Turkey a Proof that Religion and Democracy Cannot Coexist?

Over the years, Turkey has survived three Coup d'état in which its military forces took power, in 1960, 1971 and 1980. The coup in 1997, was carried out in a “post-modern way”, where generals sat down with the then prime minister, Necmettin Erbakan and forced him to resign. However the turning point in Turkey has been the failed coup attempt in July 2016, which has till date been one of the bloodiest coup attempts in its political history, leaving 241 people killed, and 2,194 others injured.
https://www.ipsnews.net/2021/02/turkey-proof-religion-democracy-cannot-coexist/
February 1, 2021

Sri Lanka’s Deteriorating Human Rights Situation Raises Multiple Alarms

A decade has passed since the end of Sri Lanka’s civil war between the government and the LTTE, where at least 100,000 people were killed in the over three-decade long conflict. Families of victims of enforced disappearances continue to seek justice, the government is yet to end impunity and put accountability for crimes under international law and human rights violation and abuses in its transitional justice process.
https://www.ipsnews.net/2021/02/sri-lankas-deteriorating-human-rights-situation-raises-multiple-alarms/
January 25, 2021

Feminist Movements Continue to Battle Culture of Impunity in Egypt

Ten years ago on this day, January 25, one of the biggest revolutions in the world took place in Egypt’s Tahrir Square, as protestors poured into the streets chanting slogans of “Bread, Freedom and Social Justice”, demanding one of the region's longest-serving and autocratic President Hosni Mubarak to step down. Three weeks later, on February 11th, Mubarak stepped down as president, leaving the Egyptian military in control of the country.
https://www.ipsnews.net/2021/01/feminist-movements-continue-battle-culture-impunity-egypt/
January 18, 2021

Punch Like A Muslim Woman: An Egyptian-Danish Boxer Breaking Many Stereotypes

As a Muslim woman born and brought up in Denmark, Nadia Helmy Ahmed broke many stereotypes when she started boxing at the age of 15. “Back then it was not common for girls to take up elite boxing, let alone common for Muslim girls, I used to be the only girl in my gym, along with ten others boys,” said Nadia to IPS News.
https://www.ipsnews.net/2021/01/punch-like-muslim-woman-egyptian-danish-boxer-breaking-many-stereotypes/
January 11, 2021

Culture of Misogyny and Toxic Masculinity Driving Sexual Violence in Bangladesh

In October 2020, Bangladeshi citizens took to the streets, outraged by the reports of gruesome gang rapes and sexual violence that were taking place in the country. According to Ain O Salish Kendra, a Bangladeshi human rights organization, 975 women were raped in the first nine months of 2020, 43 women were killed after being raped and 204 women were attempted to be raped by men in Bangladesh.
https://www.ipsnews.net/2021/01/culture-misogyny-toxic-masculinity-driving-sexual-violence-bangladesh/
December 22, 2020

A Decade after the Arab Spring, Tunisia Fails to Keep up with the Process of Democratisation

Ten years ago a young street vendor, Mohamed Bouazizi set himself afire in the central Tunisian provincial town of Sidi Bouzid to protest against police harassment. Bouazizi’s sacrificial act served as a catalyst and inspired the Tunisian people to take over the streets that led to the Jasmine Revolution in the country. On January 4, 2011 Mohamed Bouazizi died, and ten days later the country's authoritarian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali’s rule ended when he fled to Saudi Arabia.
https://www.ipsnews.net/2020/12/decade-arab-spring-tunisia-fails-keep-process-democratisation/
December 14, 2020

Discriminatory Laws Still Holding Women Back in the Middle East

Decades of aggressive efforts to create equal opportunities for women, shatter the glass ceiling and build a more inclusive society only ends up in failure, when the key stake holders refuse to acknowledge discriminatory laws, socio-cultural and religious set ups that continue to threaten progress made by the female work force.
https://www.ipsnews.net/2020/12/discriminatory-laws-still-holding-women-back-middle-east/
May 9, 2019

Is UAE Leading the Way for Concentrated Solar Power in GCC?

In April 2019, the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) published a report on a “roadmap to 2050” in terms of renewable energy.
https://www.ipsnews.net/2019/05/uae-leading-way-concentrated-solar-power-gcc/
October 4, 2014

Azerbaijan Pursues Drones, New Security Options

Heightened tensions with longtime foe Armenia over breakaway Nagorno Karabakh and mediator Russia’s Ukrainian adventure appear to be pushing Caspian-Sea energy power Azerbaijan ever more strongly toward a military strategy of self-reliance.
https://www.ipsnews.net/2014/10/azerbaijan-pursues-drones-new-security-options/
December 14, 2012

Unregulated Drug Market Has Deadly Impact in Pakistan

When 26-year-old Muhammad Qasim, a rickshaw driver from Lahore’s low-income Shahadra settlement, died last month, his family was shocked to learn that the cause of death was an overdose – of cough syrup.
https://www.ipsnews.net/2012/12/unregulated-drug-market-has-deadly-impact-in-pakistan/
February 3, 2012

INDIA-PAKISTAN: Food Heals Historic Hostility

If the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach, then the path to peace between India and Pakistan may lie in the commonalities in their cultures and cuisines.
https://www.ipsnews.net/2012/02/india-pakistan-food-heals-historic-hostility/
Reina Pérez outside her home with one of her embroidered tablecloths.  Credit: Emilio Godoy /IPS
May 9, 2011

Indigenous Craftswomen Take on Mexican Fashion World

Reina Pérez, an Otomi indigenous craftswoman in the central Mexican state of Querétaro, skilfully embroiders "grecas" or traditional design motifs in threads of many colours, on fabrics that will be used to make dresses, skirts and blouses.
https://www.ipsnews.net/2011/05/indigenous-craftswomen-take-on-mexican-fashion-world/
The floods have destroyed Azakhel camp in Pakistan, home to Afghan refugees. Credit: Ashfaq Yusufzai/IPS
September 6, 2010

PAKISTAN: Floods Leave Afghan Refugees Down and Out

When they are not looking forlornly over what used to be their homes or trying to find help for relatives who have fallen ill, many Afghan refugees chase after vehicles that pass through the Great Trunk Road connecting Peshawar to Islamabad, the Pakistani capital.
https://www.ipsnews.net/2010/09/pakistan-floods-leave-afghan-refugees-down-and-out/
Pakistan's population policy is still waiting final approval. Credit: Fahim Siddiqi/IPS
July 6, 2010

PAKISTAN: More Action, Less Words, Needed to Ease Population Bulge

While militancy, power outages and skyrocketing food prices hog the limelight in parliamentary and media discussions in Pakistan, health experts warn that it is a neglected issue – the population bulge – that will prove to be a more insidious problem.
https://www.ipsnews.net/2010/07/pakistan-more-action-less-words-needed-to-ease-population-bulge/
Ahmed Hassanin, injured after the ceasefire. Credit: Eva Bartlett
January 26, 2009

MIDEAST: Ceasefire Broken From Day One

At 7.30 am Jan. 22, five days after Israeli authorities declared a 'ceasefire' following their 22-day air, land and sea bombardment of the Gaza Strip, Israeli gunboats renewed shelling off the Gaza city coast, injuring at least six, including four children.
https://www.ipsnews.net/2009/01/mideast-ceasefire-broken-from-day-one/
UNHCR distributes aid to displaced families. Credit: UNHCR/Y. Mechitov/August 2008
November 25, 2008

POLITICS: Russia-Georgia Conflict Left Legacy of Displaced

As the European Union launches a probe into the conflict between Georgian and Russian troops in the breakaway regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia last August - with much of the blame now being cast on Georgia for firing the first shots - thousands of civilians remain displaced and homeless at the start of winter.
https://www.ipsnews.net/2008/11/politics-russia-georgia-conflict-left-legacy-of-displaced/
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