Entries from The WIP Contributors tagged with 'Corruption'
Corruption Turns India’s Borewells into Death Wells
by Priyanka Bhardwaj -India- Corruption inextricably linked with bureaucratic hassles has always existed in India. Yet, however hard some of us may try to understand them as ‘inescapable miseries’ that need to be adopted as preferred routes to get small...
Borei Keila Evictions Highlights Economic Hierarchy Among Poor in Cambodia
by Michelle Tolson -Cambodia- On January 12th, 2012 I traveled 45 km outside of Phnom Penh with a group of human rights workers and journalists to a relocation site for the evictees of the Borei Keila slum, which had been...
Syria’s Options as Calls for Democracy Spread Throughout the Arab World
by Aloosh Devrim -Syria- When I saw the revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt I felt happy. I knew that soon the domino effect would spread change throughout the Arab world. Before the popular upheaval, like many in the West, I...
Despite Election, Burma's Sham Constitution Guarantees Military Control
by Cheery Zahau -Burma/India/Thailand- It is a critical time in my country’s history. The military junta, called the State Peace and Development Council (SPDC), has ruled Burma since 1962 through violence and the severe repression of dissidents, ethnic armed-resistance groups,...
Anti-Corruption Crusader Nuhu Ribadu on Corruption and Leadership
by Susan Enuogbope Majekodunmi -USA- Being Nigerian and having many relatives still living there, I keep abreast of political and economic events. Nigeria is blessed with many natural resources and brilliant, hardworking citizens, but corruption over decades is draining her...
India’s Fastest Growing Crime: Rape and the Fight for Justice
by Priyanka Bhardwaj - India - Last year’s World Economic Forum study on gender parity gave India a dismal ranking: 114th out of 134 nations. Only 77% of women are literate and just 23% are employed. UNICEF’s 2009 State of...
Violence Breeds Violence: “Afghanistan without bombs and burqas”
by Wazhmah Osman - Afghanistan/USA - Today Afghanistan finds itself in a state of collapse and at the center of a powerful network of global terrorism. Kabul is a city filled with anxiety, insecurity, instability, trauma, and uncertainty; lost souls...
India Sets Its Sights on Higher Education
by Priyanka Bhardwaj - India - Education remains an emotional subject in a poor and developing country like India, where it is seen as the primary means for social and economic mobility. Indian families are known to sell land and...
Afghanistan: Vultures in the “Graveyard of Empires”
by Wazhmah Osman - Afghanistan - While reports of systemic corruption and fraud are just beginning to surface in the international press as Western governments are becoming aware of it, this is old news to local Afghans. They know that...
Colombia’s War: “He’s giving our country away”
by Moira Birss - Colombia - The sparse media coverage of Colombia tends only to give vague descriptions of a violent country with a thriving drug trade. But I’ve come to understand in my 15 months living and working here...
The Struggle for Survival in Zimbabwe: The Political Tug of War Continues
by Constance Manika - Zimbabwe - There have been many obstacles that threaten the already shaky power sharing agreement between the ZANU PF and MDC political parties, stalling much needed progress in Zimbabwe. Convincing the donor community to assist or...
Refusing Silence, Rejecting Simplification:
Kenyan Activist Philo Ikonya Battles Corruption
by Shailja Patel - Kenya - And they asked him: Why do you sing? And he answered, as they seized him: I sing because I sing And they searched his chest But could only find his heart And they searched...
Expression: A Newspaper in India Gives Women a Voice
by Mridu Khullar - India - The male vice-principal of a woman's college in Gwalior, India physically assaults fellow female faculty members and students by grabbing them and throwing them against walls. Kalpana Saxena, 37, publishes accounts of women affected...
A Raw Portrait of Police Violence in Rio: Interview with Brazilian director José Padilha
by Vera von Kreutzbruck - Germany - Even before Elite Squad was released commercially in October 2007, the hugely popular film about police violence and corruption in Rio de Janeiro was already a major success in Brazil. Eleven million Brazilians...
Strategies for the Crippling of a Nation: Mugabe’s Ruthless Cling to Power
by Katharine Daniels & Sarah McGowan - USA - Sunday’s news that opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai had withdrawn from the Zimbabwean runoff race spurred international media coverage and outrage on a crisis that has been raging for years. According to...
Mugabe Wages Retribution Campaign After Losing the Election: Hundreds Flee for “Safety”
by Constance Manika - Zimbabwe - In the early hours of April 25th, Tariro Gweru and her husband Wellington awoke to a deafening knock on their bedroom hut. Wellington says he identified the frantic voices of his two friends, Simon...
Divided Opposition: Huge Betrayal for Activists Who Have Suffered for Change
by Constance Manika - Zimbabwe - On March 11th, 2007, 64 year old Sekai Holland woke up unusually early. She was restless and anxious because of the scheduled protests that her party was going to go ahead with against the...
Mugabe Mobilizes Veterans to Help Seize 2008 Presidency: Freedom Is the Next Casualty
by Constance Manika - Zimbabwe - In Zimbabwe 2007 closed on a very sad note. December was a very eventful month: it was President Mugabe’s busiest and most desperate month, as he fought to stamp out the criticism of his...
Worsening Economic Crisis Forces Jobless Young Zimbabweans to Leave the Country in Droves
by Constance Manika - Zimbabwe - On October 23rd, I sent my young sister Farai off to the Republic of South Africa (RSA) to seek employment. In 2005 she graduated from the University of Zimbabwe with a BSc Honors in...
Corruption Reduces the Basic Need for Water and Adequate Sanitation to an Elusive Dream for Billions
by Tess Raposas - Philippines - In coastal communities all over the Philippines, it is ironic that seawater is abundant everywhere but effectively, there’s not a drop of clean water to drink. But the problem exists throughout the country, and...
A Journalist’s Despair: HIV-Positive Zimbabweans Can't Access ARVs
By Constance Manika - Zimbabwe - I am always left cursing and depressed and angry after covering assignments where I meet with People Living With HIV and AIDS. (We call them PLWAs here.) • Weighing only 90 pounds when she...
Can the Struggle for Philippine Democracy Be a Lesson to Burma?
by Imelda V. Abaño Philippines The bloody military crackdown in Burma (also known as Myanmar) was bound to happen. Some people called it "pure democracy" as hundreds of thousands of peaceful protesters joined with 10,000 of the Buddhist monks the...
Mugabe Has Turned the Zimbabwean Army & Police Against Their Own People: It's No Place for Cowards
by Constance Manika - Zimbabwe - As I write this piece, a soldier is in critical condition at the army hospital after residents from the notorious suburb, Mufakose attacked him and three of his colleagues for "harassing innocent civilians". It’s...
Argentina’s Elections: Another First Lady Has an Excellent Chance of Becoming President on Her Own Merits
by Vera von Kreutzbruck Germany/Argentina • Sept 12 - Austria: Cristina Fernández de Kirchner meets with Austrian chancellor Alfred Gusenbauer. •Unless there is a dramatic and highly improbable last-minute shift in the voter polls, the 28th of October will prove...
In a Landmark Case, Former Philippine President Joseph Estrada Gets Life in Prison on Corruption Charges
by Imelda V. Abaño Philippines • Anti-Estrada protestors in 2001. Photograph by Imelda V. Abaño. •"It is a political decision…I am innocent!" cried the 70-year-old already ousted Philippine President Joseph Estrada after he was convicted of corruption on a massive...
Interception of Communications Act Sparks Debate and Fear: Zimbabwean Human Rights Activists Up in Arms
by Constance Manika - Zimbabwe - • Harare, Zimbabwe. Photograph by Gary Bembridge. •The recent passing of the Interception of Communication Act, signed into law by Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe on August 3, 2007, has sparked much debate and inspired...
Defiant Cont Mhlanga’s Latest Play Banned But He Vows To Continue with Protest Theater
by Constance Manika - Zimbabwe - Hopefully, readers may remember the piece I wrote for The WIP in May 2007 about prominent Zimbabwean playwright Cont Mhlanga, and the premiere of his most recent and controversial play yet, “The Good President.”...
Mugabe's Forcible "Clearance" of 2.4 Million of His Own People in Operation Murambatsvina: A Tragic Legacy, Two Years Later
by Constance Manika - Zimbabwe - • A woman cries amongst her possessions. Photograph by Fidelis Zvomuya. •My conscience has not let me rest since I last visited the small mining town of Bindura, about 90 kilometers outside Harare, Zimbabwe’s...
Open Letter to the Next US President: Get Tougher on Mugabe's Despotic Government, But Send Aid for the Suffering Zimbabweans
by Constance Manika - Zimbabwe - “When elephants fight, it is the grass which suffers.” – African Proverb The Zimbabwean government introduced an ambitious Antiretroviral Drugs (ARVs) program in 2004, but Ropafadzo Kondo, who tested HIV positive in 1999, got...
Zimbabwean Broadcasting Cameraman Abducted by State Security Agents and Beaten to Death
by Constance Manika - Zimbabwe - On March 30, 2007 Zimbabwean journalists here woke up to sad and disturbing news: Edward Chikomba, a former cameraman with the government-run Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (the country’s only television station), had been abducted from...
Riveting New Play, The Good President, Boldly Satirizes a Government That Victimizes Its Own People
by Constance Manika - Zimbabwe - Zimbabwean theatre lovers have had something to talk about for the past two weeks. Cont Mhlanga's riveting new play, The Good President, premiered here in Harare, Zimbabwe, on April 12. This politically charged satire,...
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