Inequality

Four Years After Haiti’s Earthquake, Still Waiting for a Roof

By Jane Regan and Milo Milfort
Mimose Gérard sits in her tent at Gaston Margron camp, surrounded by large bags filled with plastic bottles. She earns just pennies for each, but that’s better than nothing.

Africa’s Billions that the Poor Won’t Touch

By Jeffrey Moyo and Miriam Gathigah
With its two-trillion-dollar economy, recent discoveries of billions of dollars worth of minerals and oil, and the number of investment opportunities it has to offer global players, Africa is slowly shedding its image as a development burden. 

OP-ED: Baka’s Struggle a Footnote to Story of Cameroon’s Growth

By Sarah Tucker
A recent article by IPS journalist Ngala Killian Chimtom described the struggle of the Baka of Cameroon to maintain their indigenous culture and livelihoods while coping with the rapidly-changing environment around them.

Islamic Party Parts With Islamists

By Sam Kimball
In the city of Metlaoui in the Governorate of Gafsa, a mining region in the parched south of Tunisia, the streets are dust, filled with ruts, the skin of the men in the cracked lanes leathery brown from the heavy weather.

Best Wishes for a Less Destitute New Year

By Mutawalli Abou Nasser
Over the past year more than 50,000 Palestinian refugees have fled violence, chaos and destitution in Syria to seek sanctuary in Lebanon. The vast majority have found themselves living in dire poverty, and trapped in chronically insecure existence.

The Scramble for Kenya’s Kibera Slum

By Miriam Gathigah
Controversy continues to brew here over ownership of the land under Kibera slum, one of Africa’s largest.

Cuba’s Reforms Don’t Believe in Tears

By Patricia Grogg
The landscape is changing in Cuba’s cities and towns, with political slogans giving way to lighted signs  advertising the best of local and international cuisine and air-conditioned lodgings – signs of an emerging private sector that was inconceivable until recently.

Baka Caught in the Maze of Modernism

By Ngala Killian Chimtom
Essomba Dominique, a Baka man from Mindourou in Cameroon’s East Region, sits dulled-eyed in front of his hut, known in the Baka language as the ‘mongoulou’.

Ethiopia Swamped by Tidal Wave of Returned Migrants

By Ed McKenna
The return of 120,000 young undocumented migrant workers from Saudi Arabia to Ethiopia has sparked fears that the influx will worsen the country’s high youth unemployment and put pressure on access to increasingly scarce land.

Bachelet’s Promised Reforms Could Face Uphill Struggle

By Marianela Jarroud
The promised structural reforms to modify the political system inherited from Chile’s 1973-1990 dictatorship and reduce the severe social inequalities in the country propelled Michelle Bachelet to a resounding triumph in the Sunday Dec. 15 runoff election.

Zero Garbage Plan Tied to Fate of Ousted Bogotá Mayor

By Constanza Vieira
The ousted left-wing mayor of the Colombian capital, Gustavo Petro, is a casualty of the battle over the introduction of a Zero Garbage programme, which had included thousands of informal recyclers in the waste disposal business.

Illicit Capital Leaving Developing Countries Up by 14 Percent

By Carey L. Biron
Developing countries are likely losing more than a trillion dollars a year in "illicit financial flows" stemming from crime and corruption, according to new estimates. This fast-rising figure is already 10 times the total amount of foreign aid these countries are receiving.

Reaching Quietly for the ‘Solidarity Basket’

By Vesna Peric Zimonjic
In the early morning hours, as hundreds of people grab their breakfast at a busy bakery in Beogradska Street in the Serbian capital, a very special basket quickly fills up with croissants, rolls and breads. It is the ‘solidarity basket’.

In Minimum Wage Debate, A Battle Over Inequality and Job Loss

By Ramy Srour
In the midst of a nationwide movement for policymakers to raise minimum wages for millions of workers in the United States, experts here continue to debate the advantages and drawbacks of raising the federal rate.

U.N.’s Post-2015 Agenda Needs a Triple Play

By Thalif Deen
As the international community fleshes out a new set of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to be unveiled next year, civil society activists and U.N. officials agree their success will hinge on policies that address the nexus of poverty, hunger and environmental degradation.

Bringing Cameroon’s Marginalised to the Poverty Debate

By Monde Kingsley Nfor
Lydia Njang, a widow and mother of five from Cameroon’s North West Region, has lost her farmland three times. 

Accra’s High Rents Means Ghanaians Lose

By Billie McTernan
Across Accra, Ghana's capital city, adverts for letting property can be found all over. But for as many placards there are, you will get just as many verbal warnings from locals cautioning people to beware of swindling agents.

WTO Urged Not to Treat Water Like Widgets

By Carey L. Biron
As government representatives gather Tuesday in Indonesia for what could be final negotiations towards a global trade agreement under the World Trade Organisation (WTO), environmentalists and social justice campaigners are urging them to specify that water resources cannot be treated as commodities.

Wage Hike in Haiti Doesn’t Address Factory Abuses

By Jane Regan
Haiti’s minimum wage will nudge up 12 percent on Jan. 1, from 4.65 to 5.23 dollars (or 200 to 225 gourdes) per day. Calculated hourly, it will go from 58 to 65 cents, before taxes.

Skateboarding Can Be Empowering

By Simba Shani Kamaria Russeau
An array of colourful quarter pipes, bank ramps and a fun box come to life as a clutch of Cambodian youngsters do balancing tricks, kick-flips and kick turns. The all-girl session at a skating facility near the Russian Market here is facilitated by 20-year-old Kov Chansangva, popularly known as Tin.

Global Trade Winds Leave the Poor Gasping

By Amantha Perera
For years, it was the power chamber at the headquarters of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) in Geneva - the Director General’s Conference Room, more popularly known as the Green Room, where a handful of delegates would gather for important discussions and meetings.
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