ENVIRONMENT: Coping in a World of “Peak Water”

Nastassja Hoffet UNITED NATIONS, Mar 19 2009 (IPS) – As more than 20,000 people meet in Istanbul for a major week-long conference on future management of the world s water supplies, women s groups are working to ensure that policy…

HEALTH-ARGENTINA: Scientists Reveal Effects of Glyphosate

Marcela Valente BUENOS AIRES, Apr 15 2009 (IPS) – Glyphosate, the herbicide used on soybeans in Argentina, causes malformations in amphibian embryos, say scientists here who revealed the findings of a study that has not yet been published. The observed…

ARGENTINA: Safe Shortcut to Sidestep Illegal Abortion

Marcela Valente BUENOS AIRES, Aug 14 2009 (IPS) – Tired of calling for the decriminalisation of abortion the leading cause of maternal death in Argentina a network of women s rights activists launched a telephone hotline to inform women on…

FILM: Saving Lives Amid the Chaos of War

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…