Leasehold Forestry Brings a New Lease on Life

Women farmers are taking the lead in managing leasehold forestry programmes in rural Nepal. Credit: Naresh Newar/IPS JHIRUBAS, Nepal, Jun 19 2013 (IPS) – Nearly 300 km from Nepal’s teeming capital, Kathmandu, in a small village dug into the steep…

Sicilian Town Opposes U.S. Transmitters

The MUOS antennas in the cork forest in Niscemi. Credit: Courtesy of Fabio D’Alessandro LUCCA, Italy, Oct 15 2013 (IPS) – Niscemi, with its 30,000 local residents and its white houses, is a typical southern Sicilian town. But it stands…

U.S. Urged to Tackle Lead in Aviation Gasoline

The global drawdown in the use of leaded fuel has resulted in benefits of some 2.5 trillion dollars a year. Credit: Bigstock WASHINGTON, Apr 22 2014 (IPS) – Consumer advocates, public health workers and environmental groups here are calling on…

Kenya’s Journey Towards Zero New HIV Infections Falters

During shortages of antiretrovirals due to strikes by health staff, Lucia Wakonyo resorted to self-medication. Credit: Miriam Gathigah/IPS NAIROBI, Jan 29 2014 (IPS) – In early January 2008, during the violence that rocked Kenya after disputed general elections, a man…

Fighting Now Brings Disease

The celebrations over food aid at Yarmouk camp in Damascus were short-lived. Credit: Niraz Saeed DAMASCUS, Mar 29 2014 (IPS) – For just that moment, the refugees in Yarmouk camp in Damascus made news. After months of facing starvation and…

OPINION: Unleashing African Young People’s Potential

This is part of a series of special stories on world population and challenges to the Sustainable Development Goals on the occasion of World Population Day on July 11. Girls attend school in South Africa. Healthy, educated young people can…

What’s More Important, the War on AIDS or Just War?

The budgets of many African countries reflect greater interest in arms deals than in managing the deadly HIV epidemic. Credit: Thomas Martinez/IPS JOHANNESBURG/NEW YORK, Aug 13 2014 (IPS) – They say there is a war on and its target is…