Inequality

Latin American Migrants Suffer Prejudice in Their Own Region

By Fabiana Frayssinet
In the movie “A Day Without a Mexican“, the mysterious disappearance of all Mexicans brings the state of California to a halt. Would the same thing happen in some Latin American countries if immigrants from neighbouring countries, who suffer the same kind of discrimination, went missing?

Women Pick Up the Slack as Fishing Declines on India’s Southern Coasts

By Nachammai Raman
Geeta Selvaraj and a few other women take turns to prepare meals with just one large gas cooker in a tiny shop.

Diabetes Epidemic Threatens Development Gains in Pacific Islands

By Catherine Wilson
The rapid rise of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in the Pacific Islands, which now cause 75 percent of all deaths, is one of the greatest impediments to post-2015 development, health ministers in the region claim.

Inequality Fuels HIV Epidemic in the Caribbean

By Desmond Brown
At 49 years old, Edison Liburd has established himself as one of Antigua and Barbuda’s most recognisable artists. But Liburd was not always in the spotlight. In fact, you could say he was a man in hiding.

In the Shadow of Displacement, Forest Tribes Look to Sustainable Farming

By Stella Paul
Laxman, a 10-year-old Koya tribal boy, looks admiringly at a fenced-in vegetable patch behind his home in southern India’s Andhra Pradesh state. Velvety-green and laden with vegetables, the half-acre patch is where Laxman’s family gets their daily quota of nutritious food.

Pakistan’s Domestic Workers Long For Low Pay and Overwork to Be a Thing of the Past

By Zofeen Ebrahim
Sumaira Salamat, a mother of three in her mid-40s, works every day from ten in the morning until half-past two in the afternoon. She travels between three homes, and in each one she dusts, sweeps, washes utensils, and does the laundry. For her efforts, she earns about 3,000 rupees (29 dollars) per month.

Drug Violence Leaves a String of Ghost Towns in Mexico

By Daniela Pastrana
Cerro del Águila, which two centuries ago was a refuge for independence fighters in Mexico, is now a stronghold of organised crime groups engaged in turf wars for control of the prosperous poppy trade and trafficking routes, which have left a string of ghost towns in their wake.

Youth Unemployment, Income Inequality Keep Rising

By Josh Butler
Global youth unemployment may be “six or seven times” what the International Labor Organisation’s (ILO) latest figures state, due to what a youth advocacy group calls a flawed system of assessment.

Measles Still Kills Thousands of Children Each Year

By Lyndal Rowlands
Measles remains one of the leading causes of death for young children worldwide, even though a safe vaccine is available.

Taiwanese Activists Push for Citizen-Based Constitution

By Dennis Engbarth
“The clock is ticking.” Those were the words of Taiwan Democracy Watch Director Yeh Chueh-an on Feb. 4, as scores of civil society organisations in the capital, Taipei, began a countdown for a citizen-based rewriting of Taiwan’s constitution aimed at safeguarding human rights and social equity.

Medical Marijuana May Not Benefit New York’s Poor Patients

By Roger Hamilton-Martin
A bill which will bring medical marijuana to New York State in 2016 will leave the treatment inaccessible to low-income patients, community groups warn.

Bangladesh Fighting Inequality at the Preschool Level

By Naimul Haq
Shanta* is only four years old, but already she loves school. Every morning, her mother walks her to the small pre-primary facility in Mohonpur village, about 140 km away from Bangladesh’s capital Dhaka, and leaves her in the care of a young female teacher, who oversees the day’s activities: storytelling, drama, reciting poetry.

Conflict-Related Displacement: A Huge Development Challenge for India

By Priyanka Borpujari
The tarpaulin sheet, when stretched and tied to bamboo poles, is about the length and breadth of a large SUV. Yet, about 25 women and children have been sleeping beneath these makeshift shelters at several relief camps across Kokrajhar, a district in the north-eastern Indian state of Assam.

From Bullets to Ballots: The Face of Sri Lanka’s Former War Zone

By Amantha Perera
In four months’ time, Sri Lanka will mark the sixth anniversary of the end of its bloody civil conflict. Ever since government armed forces declared victory over the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) on May 19, 2009, the country has savored peace after a generation of war.

Where the Right to Information and Good Governance Go Hand in Hand

By Amantha Perera
On Jan. 8, 2009, the Sri Lankan media suffered a debilitating attack.

India Still Struggling to Combat Child Labour

By Neeta Lal
Eleven-year-old Chottu* works 12 hours daily at a roadside tea joint near New Delhi's bustling interstate bus terminus.

Dumped, Abandoned, Abused: Women in India’s Mental Health Institutions

By Shai Venkatraman
Following the birth of her third child, Delhi-based entrepreneur Smita* found herself feeling “disconnected and depressed”, often for days at a stretch. “Much later I was told it was severe post-partum depression but at the time it wasn’t properly diagnosed,” she told IPS.

Missing Students Case Also Highlights Racism in Mexico

By Emilio Godoy
The mother tongue of Celso García, a 51-year-old indigenous Mexican, is Mixteca. As a boy, García, the father of one of the 43 students forcibly disappeared four months ago, had to learn Spanish to make his way in mainstream society in this country where most people are of mixed-race heritage.

Conflict-Related Displacement: A Huge Development Challenge for India

By Priyanka Borpujari
The tarpaulin sheet, when stretched and tied to bamboo poles, is about the length and breadth of a large SUV. Yet, about 25 women and children have been sleeping beneath these makeshift shelters at several relief camps across Kokrajhar, a district in the north-eastern Indian state of Assam.

Antiguan Shanty Dwellers Ask if Poverty Will Be the Death of Them

By Desmond Brown
It was early on a Saturday morning and there was no sign of life in the community. The shacks erected on both sides of the old, narrow road that winds through the area are all surrounded by zinc sheets which rise so high, it’s impossible to see what lies on the other side.

When Ignorance Is Deadly: Pacific Women Dying From Lack of Breast Cancer Awareness

By Catherine Wilson
Women now face a better chance of surviving breast cancer in the Solomon Islands, a developing island state in the southwest Pacific Ocean, following the recent acquisition of the country’s first mammogram machine.
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