Miriam Gathigah NAIROBI, Mar 10 2011 (IPS) – Professor Anyang Nyong o might have guessed that a trip to the United States for treatment for prostate cancer would provoke a furore: he is the Minister for Medical Services. Health activists…
Ranjit Devraj NEW DELHI, Mar 30 2011 (IPS) – The Fukushima disaster has prompted calls to review legislation passed by the Indian parliament in August 2010 that capped compensation payable, in the event of a nuclear accident, at 320 million…
GENEVA, Apr 26 2011 (IPS) – The nuclear disaster in Fukushima, Japan and the 25th anniversary of the catastrophe in the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine have thrown into relief contradictions in the role played by the World Health…
WASHINGTON, Jun 1 2011 (IPS) – Every year on Jun. 1, the People s Republic of China pulls out all the stops – hosting festivals, printing greeting cards and sponsoring public games and parades – in celebration of International Children…
WASHINGTON, Oct 1 2011 (IPS) – Home to a fast-growing network of farmers markets, cooperatives and organic farms, but also the breeding ground for mammoth for-profit corporations that now hold patents to over 50 percent of the world s seeds,…
Thalif Deen STOCKHOLM, Aug 22 2011 (IPS) – The international community is running the risk of losing the battle for water and sanitation in many cities around the world. Anders Berntell, executive director of the Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI).…
Elizabeth Whitman A 2008 investigation by the Environmental Working Group found bottled water to be chemically indistinguishable from tap water . Credit: Clean Wal-Mart/CC BY 2.0 NEW YORK, Nov 19 2011 (IPS) – Water is the lifeblood of this planet,…
TOKYO, Jan 18 2012 (IPS) – Japan plans to boost civilian nuclear exports even as it tries to appease its population angered at radiation leaks from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, crippled by an earthquake and tsunami on Mar.…
Jonathan Migneault and Berlinda Chochoe Nortey ACCRA, Feb 29 2012 (IPS) – When Jack Sabadgou left Ghana for Switzerland 10 years ago, he left his infant daughter behind to be raised by her mother. Now he wants his child back,…
JUBA, Apr 3 2012 (IPS) – Before Bor B Primary School built latrines on the school grounds two years ago, students would leave during their first break to head home. Most did not come back until the next morning. Before…