The aim of Visionews is to publish positive news and stories about success in the fields of peace, the environment and gender justice. The stories were mainly written by local reporters from the international news agency IPS. These reports show how courageous peace women prevented or ended wars; how men’s organisations do excellent work to stop violence; how civil society groups and governments actively protect the climate, environment and resources; how projects and initiatives engage in a sustainable form of economic management based on solidarity; and how projects and initiatives promote food sovereignty. Visionews portrays dedicated people and projects in the hope that these role models will encourage other people to follow their lead and help to prevent wars over resources arising from the global climate crisis. In May 2012, Visionews was awarded the Alternative Media Prize in Nuremberg for its work. It used the money to finance the Spanish version of its website. The good practices are sorted by country in the column on the left. You can also search by topic, for example, “human rights” or “renewable energies”, by typing the term into the search bar below the list of countries.
By Kalinga Seneviratne* BANGKOK, Jan 2016 (IDN) – While a ‘Mindful Communication’ fad is currently sweeping across the United States, a group of Asian scholars and media practitioners gathered here to examine how this traditional Asian way of communication could … Continue reading →
By Francesco Farnè and Valentina Gasbarri ROME, Dec 18 2015 (IPS) – “In Beirut I was like a bird in a cage, I felt like a prisoner. Today, I have the chance to let my dreams come true, make a … Continue reading →
By Pilar Celi TACNA, PERU , Dec 9 2015 (IPS) – Five women from Candarave Province, located in Tacna (Peru), travelled to India to be trained and to learn how to install solar panels. The training has enabled 272 families … Continue reading →
By Justus Wanzala Olkiramatian, Kenya, Dec 7 2015 (IPS) – This market centre in the arid Lake Magadi region, Kajiado of Southern Kenya is with no grid electricity. The area is inhabited by the pastoralist Maasai community. With climate change … Continue reading →
By Hazel Henderson ST. AUGUSTINE, Florida, Dec 2 2015 (IPS) – Civil society organizations, known as NGOs, have for decades used their non-government status to prod officials, politicians and business on climate issues. Veteran campaigners Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, Oxfam, … Continue reading →
By Fabíola Ortiz | IDN-InDepthNews Analysis SAN JOSE, 23 Nov 2015 (IDN) – With less than five million inhabitants, Costa Rica became famous for abolishing its army in the late 1940’s, when its Central American neighbours were involved in armed … Continue reading →
By Marianela Jarroud CASPANA, Chile , Sep 2 2015 (IPS) – Liliana and Luisa Terán, two indigenous women from northern Chile who travelled to India for training in installing solar panels, have not only changed their own future but that … Continue reading →
By Silvia Boarini LEEDS, England, Aug 31 2015 (IPS) – A new grassroots initiative born in the northern England city of Leeds has set itself the ambitious goal of ending food waste, once and for all. Founded in December … Continue reading →
By Edgardo Ayala CALUCO/MERCEDES UMAÑA, El Salvador, Aug 20 2015 (IPS) – Idalia Ramón and 10 other rural Salvadoran women take portions of the freshly ground chocolate paste, weigh it, and make chocolates in the shapes of stars, rectangles … Continue reading →
By Fabiana Frayssinet BUENOS AIRES, Aug 13 2015 (IPS) – It’s pouring rain in the capital of Argentina, but customers haven’t stayed away from the Bonpland Solidarity Economy Market, where family farmers sell their produce. The government has now … Continue reading →
By Kenton X. Chance CASTRIES, St. Lucia, Aug 10 2015 (IPS) – Award-winning St. Lucian poet and playwright Kendel Hippolyte thinks that Caribbean nationals should view the Earth as their mother. “For me, the whole thing is so basic: … Continue reading →
By Fabiana Frayssinet BUENOS AIRES, Aug 7 2015 (IPS) – The traditions of Argentina’s gauchos or cowboys have joined together with modern agricultural technology in a unique alliance between stockbreeders and environmentalists aimed at preserving biodiversity in the pampas, boosting … Continue reading →
By Mbom Sixtus YAOUNDE, Aug 2 2015 (IPS) – Marking a shift away from the growing trend of abandoning sustainable life styles and drifting from traditional customs and routines, Joshua Konkankoh is a Cameroonian farmer with a vision – that … Continue reading →
By Robert Kibet SAMBURU, Kenya, Jul 30 2015 (IPS) – Sipian Lesan bends to attend to the Vangueria infausta or African medlar plant that he planted almost two years ago. He takes great care not to damage the soft, velvety, … Continue reading →
By Stephen Leahy UXBRIDGE, Canada, May 8 2015 (IPS) – In the course of human history many tens of thousands of communities have survived and thrived for hundreds, even thousands, of years. Scores of these largely self-sustaining traditional communities continue … Continue reading →
By A. D. McKenzie PARIS, May 18 2015 (IPS) – When some 40,000 delegates, including dozens of heads of state, descend on Paris for the United Nations Climate Change Conference later this year, a group of African women mayors plan … Continue reading →
By Manipadma Jena NAYAGARH, India, May 2015 (IPS) – Kama Pradhan, a 35-year-old tribal woman, her eyes intent on the glowing screen of a hand-held GPS device, moves quickly between the trees. Ahead of her, a group of men hastens … Continue reading →
By Christine Ahn NEW YORK, May 2015 (IPS) – A century ago, the suffragist Jane Addams boarded a ship with other American women peace activists to participate in a Congress of Women in The Hague. Over 1,300 women from 12 … Continue reading →
By Fabiana Frayssinet BUENOS AIRES, Apr 28 2015 (IPS) – After the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared glyphosate a probable carcinogen, the campaign has intensified in Latin America to ban the herbicide, which is employed on a massive scale on … Continue reading →
By Valentina Ieri UNITED NATIONS, Apr 27 2015 (IPS) – Frustrated with decades of marginalisation, and of seeing their rights respected only on paper, Indigenous peoples are calling for major recognition from the international community. Speaking at U.N. Headquarters on … Continue reading →
By Fabiana Frayssinet EZEIZA, Argentina , Apr 16 2015 (IPS) – Rural organisations in Latin America are working on defining their own concept of feminism, one that takes into account alternative economic models as well as their own concerns and … Continue reading →
By Naresh Newar CHITWAN, Nepal, Apr 11 2015 (IPS) – At dusk, when the early evening sun casts its rays over the lush landscape, the Chitwan National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site about 200 km south of Nepal’s capital, … Continue reading →
By Naimul Haq DHAKA, Apr 8 2015 (IPS) – Judging by how often they make headlines, one might be tempted to believe that women in Bangladesh don’t play a major role in this country’s affairs. A recent media monitoring survey … Continue reading →
By Zofeen Ebrahim KARACHI, Mar 17 2015 (IPS) – When a group of women in the remote village of Sadhuraks in Pakistan’s Thar Desert, some 800 km from the port city of Karachi, were asked if they would want to … Continue reading →
By Josh Butler UNITED NATIONS, Mar 25 2015 (IPS) – At a recent panel discussion on women’s leadership during the U.N. Commission on the Status of Women, Ambassador Anwarul Chowdhury was the lone male voice. In front of an audience … Continue reading →
By Thalif Deen UNITED NATIONS, Mar 23 2015 (IPS) – When the World Economic Forum met last January in Switzerland, attended mostly by the rich and the super-rich, the London-based charity Oxfam unveiled a report with an alarming statistic: if … Continue reading →
By Diana Mendoza MANILA, Mar 20 2015 (IPS) – When Tinay Alterado’s team from ARUGAAN, an organisation of women healthcare advocates, visited Eastern Visayas, a region of the Philippines devastated by Typhoon Haiyan in November 2013, they noticed that the … Continue reading →
By Mel Frykberg* HEBRON, West Bank, march 2015 (IDN) – The ancient biblical city of Hebron, in the southern West Bank, is holy to Judaism, Christianity and Islam and is steeped in historical, archaeological and religious treasures. However, the hilly, … Continue reading →
By Emilio Godoy MEXICO CITY, Mar 9 2015 (IPS) – Traditionally, falling oil prices have discouraged development of renewable energy sources, but clean energy is making steady progress in Latin America, according to regional experts. Most Latin American countries have … Continue reading →
By Franz Chávez LA PAZ, Mar 7 2015 (IPS) – A successful school meals programme that serves breakfast and lunch with Andean flavours to 140,000 students in La Paz gave rise to a new law aimed at promoting healthy diets … Continue reading →
By Lyndal Rowlands NEW YORK, Mar 6 2015 (IPS) – Media coverage of maternal, sexual and reproductive health rights is crucial to achieving international development goals, yet journalists covering these issues often face significant challenges. Recognising the contributions these journalists … Continue reading →
By Naresh Newar BAJURA, Nepal, Mar 4 2015 (IPS) – If not for a group of her school friends coming to her rescue, Shradha Nepali would have become a bride at the tender age of 14. Hailing from the remote … Continue reading →
By Stella Paul MAHABUBNAGAR, India, Mar 4 2015 (IPS) – Jawadi Vimalamma, 36, looks admiringly at her cell phone. It’s a simple device that can only be used to send or receive a call or a text message. Yet to … Continue reading →
By Desmond Brown FONDES AMANDES, Trinidad, Feb 18 2015 (IPS) – Not far above Trinidad’s capital, Port-of-Spain, in a corner of the St. Ann’s valley in the Northern Range, the community of Fondes Amandes has come together since 1982 to … Continue reading →
By Leila Lemghalef NEW YORK, Feb 6 2015 (IPS) – A recent study suggests that one of the multiple threats to coral reefs contains both the problem and solution. The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), based in Cape Cod, conducted … Continue reading →
By Marianela Jarroud SANTIAGO, Feb 4 2015 (IPS) – Chile’s more than 3,000 glaciers are one of the largest reserves of freshwater in South America. But they are under constant threat by the mining industry and major infrastructure projects, environmentalists … Continue reading →
By Zofeen Ebrahim KARACHI, Jan 21 2015 (IPS) – As a wave of outrage, crossing Pakistan’s national borders, continues a month after the Dec. 16 attack on a school in the northern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, some citizens are turning away … Continue reading →
By Fabiana Frayssinet BONPLAND, Argentina , Dec 26 2014 (IPS) – Summers in northeast Argentina are hot and humid. At siesta time, the people of this rural municipality like to drink “tereré” (cold yerba mate), which until now they had … Continue reading →
By Marianela Jarroud SANTIAGO , Dec 19 2014 (IPS) – Latin America and the Caribbean should use sustainable production techniques to ensure healthy soil, the basic element in agriculture, food production and the fight against hunger. “Keeping the soil healthy … Continue reading →
By Neena Bhandari CAIRNS, Queensland, Dec 17 2014 (IPS) – As a child growing up in Far North Queensland, William Clark Enoch would know the crabs were on the bite when certain trees blossomed, but now, at age 51, he … Continue reading →
By Thalif Deen UNITED NATIONS, Dec 2 2014 (IPS) – When Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon named an international panel to review peacekeeping operations last October, the announcement was greeted with bitter criticism because it lacked even a semblance of gender balance: … Continue reading →
By Thelma Mejía PUEBLO NUEVO, Honduras , Nov 27 2014 (IPS) – In the heart of the Pijol mountains in the northern Honduran province of Yoro, the Tolupan indigenous community of Pueblo Nuevo has a lot to celebrate: famine is … Continue reading →
By Manipadma Jena SUNDARBANS, India, Nov 26 2014 (IPS) – November is the cruelest month for landless families in the Indian Sundarbans, the largest single block of tidal mangrove forest in the world lying primarily in the eastern Indian state … Continue reading →
By Shelly Kittleson GAZIANTEP, Turkey, Nov 15 2014 (IPS) – For most Syrian women, the war has been a disaster. For some, it has also been liberating. For Yasmine Merei, managing editor of the Syrian women’s magazine Saiedet Souria, the … Continue reading →
By Marianela Jarroud SANTIAGO, Nov 3 2014 (IPS) – Combating the negative effects of its own production processes is one of the challenges facing the mining industry, one of the pillars of the Chilean economy. Now, thanks to a novel … Continue reading →
Analysis by Luz Mendez* GUATEMALA CITY, Oct 28 2014 (IPS) – On Oct. 14, Guatemala’s Court for High-Risk Crimes ruled that charges would be brought against two members of the Army for sexual slavery and domestic slavery against q’eqchís women … Continue reading →
By Ivet González CÁRDENAS, Cuba , Oct 15 2014 (IPS) – Cafés, real estate agencies, taxis and other small privately-owned businesses and cooperatives in Cuba have brought new life to the depressed local economy and have given rise to pockets … Continue reading →
By Ashfaq Yusufzai PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Oct 12 2014 (IPS) – For girls living in northern Pakistan’s sprawling tribal regions, the struggle for education began long before that fateful day when members of the Taliban shot a 15-year-old schoolgirl in the … Continue reading →
By Jonathan Rozen ULAANBAATAR, Sep 22 2014 (IPS) – Ulziikhutag Jigjid, 49, is a member of a 10-person group in the Khan-Uul district on the outskirts of Mongolia’s capital Ulaanbaatar, which is producing brooms, chairs, containers, and other handmade products … Continue reading →
By Carey L. Biron WASHINGTON, Sep 18 2014 (IPS) – Starting next year, a new grant-making initiative will aim to fill what organisers say has been a longstanding gap in international coordination and funding around the recognition of community land … Continue reading →
By Joel Jaeger UNITED NATIONS, Sep 10 2014 (IPS) – If a Silicon Valley existed for the culture of peace, it would most likely look to global citizenship as the next big industry shake-up. “Global citizenship, or oneness of humanity … Continue reading →
By Jim Lobe WASHINGTON, Sep 10 2014 (IPS) – A top-level international panel called Tuesday for a major shift in global drug-control policies from prohibition to decriminalisation and regulation. In a 43-page report, the Global Commission on Drug Policy denounced … Continue reading →
By Gloria Schiavi UNITED NATIONS, Sep 4 2014 (IPS) – The world’s 370 million indigenous people, who say they were marginalised in the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), want to play a key role in the U.N.’s post-2015 development agenda, which will be finalised next year. … Continue reading →
By Friday Phiri PEMBA DISTRICT, Zambia, Aug 21 2014 (IPS) – “Last season, I lost an entire hectare of groundnuts because of a prolonged drought. Groundnuts are my hope for income,” says Josephine Chaaba, 60, from Pemba district in southern Zambia. … Continue reading →
By Naimul Haq RANGPUR, Bangladesh, Aug 25 2014 (IPS) – Until five years ago, Shima Aktar, a student in Gajaghanta village in the Rangpur district of Bangladesh, about 370 km northwest of the capital Dhaka, was leading a normal life. … Continue reading →
By Marianela Jarroud COYHAIQUE, Chile, Aug 19 2014 (IPS) – The people of Patagonia in southern Chile are working to make the Aysén region a “life reserve”. Neighbouring Argentina, across the border, is a historic ally in this remote wilderness … Continue reading →
By Adam Bemma JUBA, Aug 21 2014 (IPS) – Along the fertile banks of sub-Saharan Africa’s White Nile, one of the two main tributaries of the Nile River, a war veteran’s co-op is planting for a food secure future in … Continue reading →
By Catherine Wilson SYDNEY, Aug 13 2014 (IPS) – A pledge by political leaders two years ago to accelerate efforts toward closing the gender gap in the Pacific Islands has been boosted with the announcement that three women will take … Continue reading →
By Inés Benítez MALAGA, Spain, Aug 12 2014 (IPS) – José María Gómez squats and pulls up a bunch of carrots from the soil as well as a few leeks. This farmer from southern Spain believes organic farming is more … Continue reading →
By Jewel Fraser PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, Aug 5 2014 (IPS) – Buildings are among the largest consumers of earth’s natural resources. According to the Sustainable Buildings and Climate Initiative, they use about 40 percent of global energy and 25 … Continue reading →
By Amantha Perera BALI, Aug 8 2014 (IPS) – Aleta Baun, an Indonesian environmental activist known in her community as Mama Aleta, has a penchant for wearing a colourful scarf on her head, but not for cosmetic reasons. The colours … Continue reading →
By Carey L. Biron WASHINGTON, Jul 24 2014 (IPS) – The international community is failing to take advantage of a potent opportunity to counter climate change by strengthening local land tenure rights and laws worldwide, new data suggests. In what … Continue reading →
By Amy Fallon KAMPALA, Jul 15 2014 (IPS) – Olga Mugisa, 11-years-old, takes to the microphone in front of her peers, the Ugandan flag proudly draped behind her and green plants framing the stage. She has an important message to … Continue reading →
By Bernard Bankukira BUJUMBURA, Jul 5 2014 (IPS) – As Burundi heads towards the 2015 general elections, and despite a quota of 30 percent women’s representation in parliament, women in this southeast African nation feel that they are yet to … Continue reading →
By Diego Arguedas Ortiz PUNTARENAS, Costa Rica, Jul 2 2014 (IPS) – Biologist Juan Sánchez drives the leader of two off-road vehicles along a dirt road in southeastern Costa Rica. Officials and experts are on their way to inspect a … Continue reading →
By Milagros Salazar JEPELACIO, Peru, Jul 2 2014 (IPS) – He may look like a rapper, but 33-year-old José Antonio Bardález is the mayor of Jepelacio, in the Peruvian Amazon. His ingenious innovations in the municipality include transforming waste management … Continue reading →
By Kanya D’Almeida UNITED NATIONS, Jun 16 2014 (IPS) – Holy men and their holy books have etched a trail of tears and blood in the annals of human history. From the depths of peaceful temples, mobs have been dispatched … Continue reading →
By IPS Corre-spondents UNITED NATIONS, Jun 10 2014 (IPS) – “My mother used to just stay at home, now she has come back and is an engineer and a leader. She is on the Village Energy Committee,” said a 10-year-old … Continue reading →
By Marjut Helminen GAZA CITY, May 29 2014 (IPS) – “We let the men participate in the workshop discussions, but the training sessions are only for women journalists,” says Mona Khadir, who coordinates the activities of the Filastiniyat Women Journalists’ … Continue reading →
By Thalif Deen UNITED NATIONS, Jun 2 2014 (IPS) – When night falls, there are over 1.3 billion people, mostly in the developing world, who live in virtual darkness because they have no access to electricity. But United Nations Secretary-General … Continue reading →
By Amy Fallon KAMPALA, May 29 2014 (IPS) – When Gerald Abila received an iPhone as a gift almost two years ago, the Ugandan law student didn’t just use it to text his friends. He used it to create what … Continue reading →
By Mark Olalde FREEPORT, Trinidad and Tobago, May 22 2014 (IPS) – Erle Rahaman-Noronha is not a revolutionary, not in any radical sense at least. He is not even that exciting. In truth, Rahaman-Noronha is merely a man with a … Continue reading →
London, 12 July 2014. “If we are serious about peace, we must take women seriously.” This is the theme of the Global Campaign on Women, Peace and Security dubbed “Women. Seriously!” launched June 12th at the Global Summit to End … Continue reading →
By Vesna Peric Zimonjic BELGRADE, May 21 2014 (IPS) – The Balkans region is living one of its most horrible springs ever, after the worst flooding in 120 years took 47 lives and witnessed evacuation of dozens of thousands of … Continue reading →
By Amy Fallon KIGALI, May 14 2014 (IPS) – Twenty-year-old Fabrice Shyaka sells popcorn in brown paper bags five nights a week from his stand in a small alleyway, situated next to a DVD shop blaring loud music, and a supermarket. … Continue reading →
By Stella Paul MANGALORE, Apr 25 2014 (IPS) – Thirteen-year-old Sampreeth Monteiro’s neighbours are suddenly taking his advice seriously. “Buy a Guppy fish, it will eat all the mosquito eggs in your house. You will not get malaria again.” Last … Continue reading →
By Thalif Deen UNITED NATIONS, May 5 2014 (IPS) – The world is slowly, but painfully, moving towards the formal recognition of the existence of a third gender besides male and female. “The rights of transgender people – to their … Continue reading →
By Fabiola Ortiz KIGALI, Apr 7 2014 (IPS) – When Rwandan Member of Parliament Veneranda Nyirahirwa was just a girl, she wasn’t allowed to attend secondary school because of her ethnicity. It was only in the wake of the country’s … Continue reading →
By Diego Arguedas Ortiz PITAL, Costa Rica , Apr 2 2014 (IPS) – Olga Vargas, a breast cancer survivor, is back in the countryside, working in a forestry programme in the north of Costa Rica aimed at empowering women while … Continue reading →
By Stella Paul ANANATAGIRI, India, Mar 7 2014 (IPS) – Chintapakka Jambulamma, 34, looks admiringly at a solar dryer. It’s the prized possession of the Advitalli Tribal Women’s Co-operative Society- a collective of women entrepreneurs that she leads. She opens … Continue reading →
By Ambassador Anwarul K. Chowdhury UNITED NATIONS, Mar 13 2014 (IPS) – The largest annual gathering with special focus on issues which impact on women and thereby humanity as a whole is now taking place in New York. It is … Continue reading →
By Matthew Newsome Matthew Newsome interviews MARY ROBINSON, former Irish president and United Nations Special Envoy for the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and the Great Lakes Region ADDIS ABABA, Mar 12 2014 (IPS) – Ireland’s former President Mary Robinson … Continue reading →
By Jeffrey Moyo HARARE, Mar 9 2014 (IPS) – Shyline Chipfika, 26, is one of thousands of Zimbabwean women in urban centres who have struck gold by growing potatoes. And a lot of their success has to do with an … Continue reading →
By K. S. Harikrishnan THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, India , Feb 24 2014 (IPS) – Balakrishnan, a labourer from Kochi in the southern Indian state of Kerala, was suffering from oral cancer. He was admitted to the Regional Cancer Centre (RCC) in Thiruvananthapuram. … Continue reading →
By Athar Parvaiz LEH, India, Feb 24 2014 (IPS) – Surendar Mohan, a catering assistant at the residential school Jawahar Navodiya Vidyalya, looks thankfully up at the sun from this cold high-altitude desert in northwest India. “Now things have become … Continue reading →
Analysis by Richard Heydarian MANILA, Feb 10 2014 (IPS) – After two years of intensive negotiations, the Philippine government and the country’s largest rebel group, the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), have signed a final peace agreement, which paves the … Continue reading →
By Pierre Klochendler KFAR QARA’, Northern Israel, Jan 27 2014 (IPS) – Welcome to Bridge Over the Wadi primary school, one of five bi-national schools under the “Hand-in-Hand” initiative of the Centre of Jewish-Arab Education in Israel. The centre strives … Continue reading →
By Anna Shen NEW YORK, Jan 23 2014 (IPS) – Jigar Shah likes math. It inspires him. After all, crunching numbers allowed him to convince wary investors of the money-making potential of solar energy, allowing him to ignite an industry … Continue reading →
By Inés Benítez MÁLAGA, Spain , Jan 15 2014 (IPS) – Hundreds of students from Spain’s Canary Islands, Senegal and the Sahrawi refugee camps outside of Tindouf in western Algeria are meeting each other and breaking down cultural barriers thanks … Continue reading →
By Ashfaq Yusufzai PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Jan 15 2014 (IPS) – For many years they could not sing, dance or play their favourite instruments. The performing artists of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of northern Pakistan lost their voice as the Taliban carried … Continue reading →
By Marianela Jarroud SANTIAGO, Jan 4 2014 (IPS) – An organisation that brings together some 10,000 peasant and indigenous women from Chile is launching an agroecology institute for women campesinos, or small farmers, in South America. For years, the National … Continue reading →
By Estrella Gutiérrez CARACAS, Dec 17 2013 (IPS) – “I ride 43 km a day and I love it,” said Carlos Cantor in Bogotá, Colombia. “Five years ago I switched my car for a bike,” explained Tomás Fuenzalida from Santiago, Chile. … Continue reading →
By Inés Benítez MALAGA, Spain, Dec 10 2013 (IPS) – They are members of Spain’s Guardia Civil. But instead of pursuing undocumented immigrants like the rest of the police in Spain, they are there to defend them from the crimes … Continue reading →
By Shai Venkatraman MUMBAI, Dec 10 2013 (IPS) – In a shanty tucked inside Dharavi, described as Asia’s largest slum settlement, a little piece of theatre unfolds. Several young boys are heckled as they pretend to go vegetable shopping – … Continue reading →
In November 2013, 36 selected Visionews stories are published as a book, “Good News – how women and men stop violence and save the planet” by the initiator of Visionews, Ute Scheub, and the Heinrich Boell Foundation. You can order … Continue reading →
By Thalif Deen UNITED NATIONS, Nov 5 2013 (IPS) – Amidst a rise in sexual violence in the world’s war zones, the United Nations has begun appointing women to head some of the key political and peacekeeping missions in conflict … Continue reading →
By Pierre Klochendler BATTIR, Occupied West Bank, Nov 3 2013 (IPS) – “O green Battir, mother of the air,” Mariam Ma’mmar sings in praise of her village. As the hot season draws to a close, the land – her people’s … Continue reading →
By Constanza Vieira LAS PAVAS/BOGOTÁ , Nov 14 2013 (IPS) – The rural community of Las Pavas in northern Colombia received this year’s National Peace Prize Wednesday in recognition of its peaceful struggle for land that is claimed by an … Continue reading →
By Annabell Van den Berghe CAIRO, Nov 14 2013 (IPS) – Nihal Saad Zaghloul is an Egyptian woman in her late twenties. Like other young women, she faces the daily risk of sexual harassment on the streets of Cairo. But … Continue reading →
By Inés Acosta MONTEVIDEO, Oct 29 2013 (IPS) – “We have come together to join forces, to be heard, because we want to speak for ourselves,” said Ernestina Ochoa, a Peruvian domestic worker, at the close of the founding congress … Continue reading →