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07 Feb 2011
By Ángel Páez
LIMA, Feb 7 (IPS) Women candidates nominated for the presidential and
legislative elections in Peru in April tend to be big names in the worlds
of sports, television or show business, or are following family tradition.
But political parties are failing to promote meaningful participation by
women in politics.
07 Feb 2011
By Andreas Lönnqvist
STOCKHOLM, Feb 7 (IPS) The number of reported rapes in this Nordic country
has increased dramatically
in recent years, especially after the Swedish Sexual Crimes Act was
reformed in
2005. This does not, however, necessarily mean that the actual number of
rapes
has increased, according to analysts.
07 Feb 2011
By Thandi Winston and Souleymane Faye*
DAKAR, Feb 6 (IPS) Tens of thousands of people marched through the streets
of Dakar on Sunday to mark the start of the annual World Social Forum.
Activists carried colorful banners denouncing land grabs, restrictive
immigration laws, agricultural subsidies in Europe and the U.S. and many
other issues.
06 Feb 2011
By Andreas Lönnqvist
STOCKHOLM, Feb 6 (IPS) The attempt to extradite the Wikileaks founder
Julian Assange for questioning
over allegations of sexual crimes has caused a big debate about the
Swedish
justice system abroad. The case has also brought the comparatively broad
definitions of what constitutes rape in this country into the limelight.
05 Feb 2011
By Emilio Godoy* – Tierramérica
EL CARDONAL, Mexico, Feb 5 (IPS) With a wooden spoon in hand, Hortencia
Rómulo briskly stirs the amber-coloured liquid cooking in an enormous
steel pot.
05 Feb 2011
By Feizal Samath
COLOMBO, Feb 5 (IPS) Sri Lanka has raised the age requirement for women
wanting to leave the
country to work as domestics abroad, but recruitment agents say this
won’t
prevent younger women from joining the exodus.
03 Feb 2011
Kanya D'Almeida interviews DR. BABATUNDE OSOTIMEHIN, executive
director of UNFPA
UNITED NATIONS, Feb 3 (IPS) Before the end of 2011 there will be more
humans on earth than
in all of the planet's 4.5-billion-year history. As the world
steels itself to support its seven billion-strong population,
Dr. Babatunde Osotimehin, the new executive director of the
United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), greets the impending
challenges with gusto.
03 Feb 2011
By José Adán Silva
MANAGUA, Feb 3 (IPS) Karla Mendoza, a 26-year-old Nicaraguan, has worked
hard to have a professional career. But despite two technical degrees,
courses in computer science and public relations, a nearly complete
university degree, and eight years of work experience, she is not there
yet.
01 Feb 2011
Cleo Fatoorechi interviews YIFAT SUSSKIND, MADRE Executive Director
UNITED NATIONS, Feb 1 (IPS) Working with grassroots organisations is the
only viable way to genuinely help
people, according Yifat Susskind, the newly appointed Executive Director
of the
New York-based women’s organisation MADRE.
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Agriculture is key to women’s livelihoods in rural West Africa and to the survival of the national economies. But despite women’s crucial work on the farms women’s rights to land ownership, control and access to land continues to be neglected. The importance of African women farmers has been long recognized in international development since the [...]
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