Joyce Mulama NAIROBI, Apr 5 2006 (IPS) – As the international community prepares to commemorate this year s World Health Day (Apr. 7), the issue of poor remuneration for health workers in Kenya is being debated. The pay for doctors…
Moyiga Nduru MASERU, Aug 23 2006 (IPS) – The annual summit of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) wrapped up Friday with a call to speed up the process of increasing women s representation at all levels of government in…
Kathryn Barry NEW YORK, Jan 6 2010 (IPS) – The documentary Living in Emergency is as graphic as it is gripping, following doctors working in humanitarian crises as they face death, disease and despair in Liberia and the Democratic Republic…
Resting in Bairro Alto, without fear of being arrested. Credit: Mario Queiroz/IPS LISBON, Aug 1 2012 (IPS) – Portugal was traditionally one of the European countries with the lowest levels of drug use, until the 1980s and 1990s, when problematic…
Radish production at West Africa Farms, in Northern Senegal. Credit: Sarah Farhat / World Bank WASHINGTON, Aug 1 2018 (IPS) – The world’s food systems face two immense challenges today. One, to produce enough food to nourish a global population…
This article is part of special IPS coverage of International Women’s Day on March 8 2020 Gender equality is a basic human right and a prerequisite for sustainable development, so why does inequality persist in so many countries, and…
Today, plastics are ubiquitous, pervading all aspects of human activity and invading all dimensions of the environment, with the result being the emergence of planet Plastics. Credit: Albert Oppong-Ansah PORTLAND, USA, Mar 21 2022 (IPS) – Planet Earth is increasingly…