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March 12, 2010
'Inflexible Welfare Model Keeping Young Swedes out of Work'
by Nima Sanandaji, The Local, Sweden - The combination of high taxes, generous government benefits and a regulated labour market has led many Swedes to rely on handouts rather than work.
March 11, 2010
The Faces of the Digital Divide
by Megan Tady, Save The Internet, USA - The “digital divide” sounds so faceless, so placeless. Who are these supposed people without an Internet connection in today’s day-and-age?
EU Court Thwarts Dutch Immigration Policy
by Marjolein van de Water, NRC Handelsblad, Netherlands - The European Court of Justice has upended the minimum income requirement for foreign marriage partners. More aspects of Dutch immigration policy could be at odds with European law.
Going Local
by Helena Norberg-Hodge, Counter Currents, India - “Going local” may be the single most effective thing we can do.
Burma: This Is My Witness
by Emily Stokes, Open Democracy, UK - On Tuesday, Saw Mar – who has lived in the US for the past decade – was one of twelve Burmese women to testify at the International Tribunal on Crimes against Women of Burma held in New York, a event organised by the Nobel Women’s Initiative and the Women’s League of Burma.
March 10, 2010
Invisible Victims of Terror
by Rafia Zakaria, Dawn, Pakistan - The death of every head of the household means the creation of nearly five times the number of victims who are left destitute — and these victims are inevitably women and their small children.
EU Urged to Ban 'Conflict Minerals'
by Ida Karlsson, IPS, Italy - After the United States senate’s move to stem the flow of money from mineral mines fuelling the brutal civil war in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the watchdog group Global Witness (GW) is calling on Europe to follow suit.
Female WWII Pilots: The Original Fly Girls
by Susan Stamberg, NPR, USA - In 1942, the United States was faced with a severe shortage of pilots, and leaders gambled on an experimental program to help fill the void: Train women to fly military aircraft so male pilots could be released for combat duty overseas.
Humans Driving Extinction Faster than Species Can Evolve
by Juliette Jowit, Guardian, UK - For the first time since the dinosaurs disappeared, humans are driving animals and plants to extinction faster than new species can evolve.
March 9, 2010
The New Jim Crow
by Michelle Alexander, Tom Dispatch, USA - How the War on Drugs gave birth to a permanent american undercaste.
Gaza Women Denied Inheritance Rights
by Rachelle Kliger, Jerusalem Post, Israel - Palestinian inheritance law follows Islamic law, which stipulates that women are only entitled to half the inheritance amount given to men.
Criminalising Homosexuality: A Threat to Human Rights
by Sokari Ekine, Pambazuka, Kenya - Urgency is required at this very moment as the Ugandan Anti-Homosexuality Bill 2009 is pending before the Ugandan parliament.
Cambodia Drug-Resistant Malaria Stirs Health Fears
by Thin Lei Win, Reuters, UK - A New England Journal of Medicine study last year showed that conventional malaria-fighting treatments derived from artemisinin took almost twice as long to clear the parasites that cause the disease in patients in Pailin and others in northwestern Thailand, suggesting the drugs were losing potency in the area.
A Female Approach to Peacekeeping
by Doreen Carvajal, New York Times, USA - Any conflict where you have an all-male army, it’s like a holiday from reality. If you inject women into that situation, they do have a civilizing effect.
March 8, 2010
The Women’s Day That Should No Longer Be
by Nafha Maani Ebrahimi, Daily Monitor, Uganda - You have given me a day among international days, you want me to be happy neighbouring world water day and environment day, and you think half of humanity should be remembered in a day!
Global Women: Good News, Bad News
by Katha Pollitt, The Nation, USA - It's not automatic that as a country becomes richer and more developed men and women become more equal--especially when conservative religion has power, as in the United States and many nations.
Rape Victims Awaiting Justice
by Caroline Wafula, Daily Nation, Kenya - More than two years after the post-election chaos, many women who suffered sexual violence and abuse are still waiting for justice.
Muslim Women Fight for Rights
by Nandita Sengupta, The Times of India, India - Across India, from Hyderabad to Pune, Lucknow to Kolkata, educated Muslim women like Jameela — artists, activists, teachers and doctors — are conducting awareness drives among poor women in Muslim slums in cities fashioning change in the subtlest of ways.
Iran Women Rights Defenders Continue Undeterred by Prison Detention
by Elahe Amani, Women News Network, USA - Today on a daily basis, personal memoirs of ongoing encounters of dictatorship and resistance in Iran are being written in print and in cyberspace by countless Iranian civil rights activists, scholars and women human rights defenders.
March 5, 2010
Honor Killing and Domestic Violence
by Navi Pillay, Daily Star, Lebanon - Honor attacks are steeped in the same attitude and stem from the same mind-set that also produces domestic violence. These attacks are rooted in the desire to control women and suppress their aspirations and voice.
Staggering from Pillar to Post: Zimbabwe's 'Unity' Government
by Mary Ndlovu, Pambazuka, Kenya - The prospect is for continued poverty, a stuttering economy, a dysfunctional civil service, violence and even chaos. All of which benefit the power elite of the former ruling party.
Elinor Ostrom Wins Nobel for Common(s) Sense
by Fran Korten, Yes!, USA - Elinor Ostrom was an unusual choice for the 2009 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.
And We Still Call Ourselves Buddhists?
by Sanitsuda Ekachai, Bangkok Post, Thailand - The first Makha Bucha occurred on the full-moon day of the third lunar month, nine months after the Buddha's enlightenment. This year, it falls on Feb 28, the day when the government ends its reprieve for those who desperately need help - the migrant workers who fled harsh poverty and violent persecution in Burma.
March 4, 2010
Female Directors, Writers, and Producers in Film Matter
by Stacy Smith, Huffington Post, USA - Studies show that the ways characters talk, look, and relate to other characters are different when one or more females are directing, writing, or producing properties for TV/film.
Zimbabwe Education System in Crisis
by Haru Mutasa, Al Jazeera, Qatar - Zimbabwe's education system is now in crisis and its poorly paid teachers are leaving government-run schools in the thousands.
Shrinking Glaciers Threaten Tajikistan's Economic Dreams
by Farangis Najibullah, Radio Free Europe, Czech Republic - Like many other farmers in the remote village of Barchid, lying in the shadow of Tajikistan's Pamir Mountains, Makbulsho Yakinshoev knows little about issues like greenhouse-gas emissions or global warming.
Domestic Violence: A Pre-Existing Condition?
by Amy Goodman, Truthdig, USA - March is Women’s History Month, recognizing women’s central role in society. Unfortunately, violence against women is epidemic in the United States and around the world.
March 3, 2010
Life and Death of an Independent Newspaper in Oryol
by Elena Godlevskaya, Open Democracy Russia, UK - In 2004, some local journalists in Oryol founded an independent newspaper ‘for those who want the truth’. Although it sold well, members of staff were subject to threats, bribes, attacks and arson. Still, it lasted four years.
CHILE: First Woman President Scores Points on Gender Front
by Daniela Estrada, IPS/TerraViva, Italy - When Chile elected Michelle Bachelet as its first woman president in 2005, thousands of women celebrated the historic victory as their own personal triumph, proudly marching in the streets wearing mock presidential sashes. Today, men and women both recognise the concrete and symbolic progress achieved in gender issues under her administration.
A Future for Agriculture, A Future for Haiti
by Beverly Bell, Common Dreams, USA - According to Haitian peasant organizations, at the core of the solutions is a commitment on the part of the government to support family agriculture, with policies to make the commitment a reality.
Afghanistan's Reintegration Will Require both Carrots and Sticks
by Graciana del Castillo, Daily Star, Lebanon - The current Afghan situation reflects a failure until now to make national reconciliation – rather than optimal development policies – the bedrock priority of the Kabul government and the international community.
March 2, 2010
URUGUAY: New President Aims for Leap in Development
by Diana Cariboni, IPS, Italy - "I've been crying (tears of joy) since yesterday. It's amazing to see how an ordinary person made it so far," said 44-year-old María del Rosario Corbo, referring to Uruguay's new President José "Pepe" Mujica, who was sworn in Monday at the head of this South American country's second leftist administration.
Mentally Disabled Inmates Remain on Death Row
by Reneé Feltz, Investigative Fund, USA - The Supreme Court's Atkins decision struck down executions of the mentally retarded. But dozens of mentally disabled men remain on death row in Texas, with few avenues for appeal.
Constant Mine Accidents in Turkey Reveal Sector’s Flaws
by Fatma Disli Zibak, Today's Zaman, Turkey - The safety record of Turkey’s coal mining industry lags behind that of most industrial nations and the inspection of mines, particularly those run by the private sector, is insufficient.
North-South Divide and Tackling Global Warning
by Helena Norberg-Hodge, Counter Currents, India - Should the countries of the South have the right to increase their emissions as they industrialize and ‘develop’?
March 1, 2010
The Hungry and the Powerless
by Kulani Jalata, Gadaa, Ethiopia - Understanding the politics of malnutrition in Oromia and Ethiopia.
Small Islands, Tax Havens and Climate Change
by Khadija Sharife, Pambazuka, Kenya - As the G20 spends its time creating a carbon trade market that does little to reduce carbon emissions, multinationals continue to expand their extractive enterprises, dictators continue to siphon off capital, financial firms continue to cash in on pollution and this illicit capital continues to be laundered through offshore locations that are themselves threatened by the rising waters associated with global warming.
Bolivian Women Rise Up
by Lisa Macdonald, Green Left, Australia - In January, Bolivia’s left-wing President Evo Morales began his second term by appointing a new cabinet in which women are equally represented for the first time.
Environmental and Health Concerns Don't Stop at U.S.-Mexican Border
by Kari Lydersen, OnEarth, USA - “Why aren’t the multinational companies that are making billions from cheap labor paying for infrastructure and the problems they’re creating?”
February 26, 2010
A Perturbing Argument on ‘Don’t Ask’
by Ruth Marcus, Truthdig, USA - In an era of stop-loss recalls because forces have been stretched so thin, thousands of service members have been discharged because of their sexuality.
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