Global Politics Online Journal / IPS
Ephraim Nsingo
HARARE, Jan 17 (IPS) – Over 75 percent of the people in crisis-riddled Zimbabwe are living in desperate poverty, with children bearing the brunt. And with rival parties still wrangling over implementation of a power-sharing agreement signed four months ago, things are likely to get worse before [...]
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Ashfaq Yusufzai
PESHAWAR, Jan 15 (IPS) – Arson attacks and killings have shut down girls’ schools and brought a thriving entertainment industry to its knees in the North West Frontier Province (NWFP).
On Monday, renowned Pashto comedian Alamzeb Mujahid was abducted in broad daylight from the upmarket Hayatabad Township here [...]
Global Politics Online Journal / IPS
Raúl Gutiérrez
SAN SALVADOR, Jan 13 (IPS) – A Spanish judge’s decision to investigate 14 Salvadoran military officers for the 1989 killings of six Jesuit priests in El Salvador is a ”sign of hope against impunity,” according to lawyers and activists.
In his resolution, which was seen by IPS, [...]
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William Fisher
NEW YORK, Jan 13 (IPS) – Human rights groups are hailing reports that President-elect Barack Obama plans to issue an executive order on his first full day in office directing the closing of the Guantánamo Bay detention camp in Cuba. But they are urging him to provide [...]
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Patricia Grogg
HAVANA, Jan 7 (IPS) – The persistence of racism in Cuba is disturbing to some of the island’s thinkers, who are calling for a debate on the problem in this country, where equal rights have not guaranteed equal opportunities for all social groups.
The first documentary on [...]
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