by Shannon Hayes, Yes!, USA - How families are achieving ecological, social, and economic transformation... starting under their own roofs.

by Ruth Gledhill, Times Online, UK - The Church of England is to go ahead with the plan to create women bishops without giving in to demands from traditionalists for a separate structure of bishops and archbishops untainted by the hands of a woman.

by Britta Sandberg, Spiegel, Germany - Less than a decade ago, tourists shunned Morocco because of its poor infrastructure and supposedly unsafe conditions. Now, though, a major initiative started by the country's king has turned Marrakesh into a playground for the world's rich and famous. But not all of the effects have been positive.

by Anne Bartlett, Sudan Tribune, France - Recent months have witnessed an attempt to shift attention away from Darfur, yet the situation in the West of Sudan is anything but quiet.

by Mariam Hamed, Palestine Note, Palestine - Don't be surprised if one day you find a crying infant thrown in front of a children's hospital, left by a sidewalk, or a trash can in the streets of Gaza. It is an "infant of unknown parentage."

by Chrissie Long and Sara Miller Llana, Christian Science Monitor, USA - Laura Chinchilla won Costa Rica's presidential election in a landslide victory Sunday that is eliciting cheers from women across Central America.

by Olivia Ward, The Star, Canada - Women's rights would face challenges in a Western peace deal with the Taliban.

by Sarah Posner, American Prospect, USA - At yesterday's National Prayer Breakfast, President Obama revealed that he still falls prey to the idea that religious beliefs are unimpeachable -- even when those beliefs affect the liberty of others.

by Khadija Sharife, Pambazuka, Kenya - Will a new concession with China enable the Congolese to ‘really feel what all that copper, cobalt and nickel is good for’, as President Joseph Kabila says, or will the country continue to be seen as ‘a resource-rich bargain bin, open for business’?

by Helen Mould, Al Jazeera, Qatar - People living with HIV are often discriminated against because the condition is associated with so-called 'immoral' behaviour, such as drug-use and prostitution.

by Mridu Khullar, The Caravan, India - In the race to modernise before the Commonwealth Games, Delhi’s trashpickers are being left behind.

by Nurit Wurgaft, Haaretz, Israel - The government and the Bank of Israel have a plan to rid the country of illegal migrant workers and put Israelis back to work. Unfortunately, it's based on a number of misleading assumptions.

by Fredreka Schouten, USA Today, USA - The recession has battered the U.S. economy, but the lobbying industry is humming along in the nation's capital, even for companies that have shed thousands of jobs in the past year.

by Lucy Komisar, IPS, Italy - The global bank HSBC may be running offshore accounts for central banks. According to a U.S. Senate investigation, an HSBC subsidiary in London called HSBC Equator Bank had a sister bank in the Bahamas.

by Ayse Karabat, Today's Zaman, Turkey - Turkey's juvenile justice system considers legal cases regarding minors only as ‘files,' but this perception has to be replaced with a system that focuses on the rights of children.

by Mary Dejevsky, The Independent, UK - There is no evidence at all that Iran colluded with al-Qa'ida.

by Anne Seith, Spiegel, Germany - We all gravitate towards people who are like ourselves. It would help a lot if we could make more men become aware of these dynamics. It would also be helpful if women would be aware of it.

by Melissa Harris-Lacewell, The Nation, USA - When gay men and lesbians can openly and proudly point to their sacrifices for our country then they can call upon our country for full first-class citizenship.

by Amy Goodman, Truthdig, USA - “I wish President Obama would listen carefully to Martin Luther King... he ought to think before he sends missiles over Pakistan, before he agrees to this bloated military budget, before he sends troops to Afghanistan, before he opposes the single-payer system."

by Peggy Simpson, Women News Network & Women's Media Center, USA - Able to quickly reach a well-developed network of women throughout the country, an alternative banking system performs while the Haitian economy is in shambles.