Global Poverty & the Poor

Forgotten Promises in Guatemala Leave Indigenous Peoples Poorer and Hungrier

December 12, 2010

GUATEMALA By Danilo Valladares GUATEMALA CITY, Dec 12, 2010 (IPS) – Nearly three years into President Álvaro Colom’s four-year term, Guatemala’s indigenous people have seen little improvement in their lives — and they represent approximately half the country’s population. “The situation of the native peoples may be even worse than before. Poverty has increased,...
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WSF: Reconciling Social and Environmental Needs

February 2, 2010

By Mario Osava SALVADOR, Brazil, Jan 31, 2010 (IPS) One of the greatest challenges facing the world today is to attend to the urgent social needs of the planet’s population, and particularly the one billion people living “on the brink of survival”, while dealing with the equally urgent demands of the environment. This warning...
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World Social Forum: Crisis as Opportunity for “Another World”

January 22, 2009

By Mario Osava January 22, 2009, Inter Press Service News Agency RIO DE JANEIRO, Jan 21 (IPS) – A World Social Forum (WSF) revitalized by a global crisis that has awakened new interest in the proposition that “another world is possible” – now perceived as either less utopian or more urgently needed – will...
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UN General Assembly: No Bailout for the World’s Poor

January 17, 2009

By Thalif Deen United Nations, (IPS) As a spreading financial crisis threatens to deepen the economic recession in the United States, the news of an unprecedented 700-billion-dollar bailout package reverberated through the corridors of the United Nations last week as over 100 world leaders gathered in New York for the annual talk-fest: the 63rd...
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LAWG: A Just U.S. Foreign Policy in Latin America

January 17, 2009
LAWG: A Just U.S. Foreign Policy in Latin America

As nongovernmental and faith-based organizations deeply committed to a just U.S. policy toward Latin America and the Caribbean, we are gratified that you have often articulated the importance of establishing a new approach for U.S. engagement in the world. We urge you to include the relationship with our Latin American neighbors as a vital...
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  • RIGHTS-CUBA: Dissident Group Reports Uptick in Arrests September 8, 2011
    The Cuban Commission for Human Rights and National Reconciliation criticised the situation in this Caribbean island nation in a report released three days after government media warned that a new smear campaign was being organised against the country. […]
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    Maize, Mexico's staple food as well as a symbol, has the potential to adapt to climate change and mitigate its effects without any need for genetically modified seeds, according to agricultural scientists. […]
  • ARGENTINA: Against the Current in Nuclear Energy September 8, 2011
    While the tendency in the industrialised world in the wake of the Mar. 11 nuclear meltdown in Japan is to abandon plans for further nuclear energy development, in Argentina the capacity of existing plants is being strengthened, and new reactors are being built. […]
  • US-LATAM: Human Trafficking Scourge Needs More Than Policing September 7, 2011
    South American experts and officials met in Washington this week to discuss current policy initiatives to combat human trafficking in their respective countries, part of a broader U.S.-wide tour to share information and strategies to deal with the issue. […]
  • Nicaragua's Antidote to Violent Crime September 7, 2011
    The so-called "Northern Triangle" of Central America, plagued by poverty, violence and the legacy of civil war, is considered one of the most violent areas in the world. But neighbouring Nicaragua has largely escaped the spiralling violence, and many wonder how it has managed to do so. […]
  • Q&A: Mighty Maya Cities Succumbed to Environmental Crisis September 7, 2011
    The latest archeological findings in the Mirador Basin of Guatemala lend further credence to the theory that the Maya civilisation that once flourished there was brought down by environmental causes such as deforestation. […]
  • OP-ED-RIGHTS: "We Just Want to Know Where They Are" September 7, 2011
    The last time Supaya Serrano saw her sisters Erlinda and Ernestina, they were just three and seven years old, respectively. […]
  • ARGENTINA: Purging the Legal System of Dictatorship Accomplices September 6, 2011
    As human rights cases from Argentina's 1976-1983 military dictatorship move ahead in the courts, cases of judges and prosecutors who were accomplices in the crimes are coming to light. […]
  • BOLIVIA: Rainforest Road Will Have Environmental and Cultural Impacts September 6, 2011
    A richly biodiverse rainforest the size of 3,000 soccer fields in central Bolivia will be the first victim of the road planned to run through the Isiboro Sécure Indigenous Territory and National Park (TIPNIS), say environmental activists. […]
  • CUBA: Catholic Church Takes the Pulse of Religious Sentiment September 6, 2011
    The Catholic Church seems to be expecting a rise in religious sentiment among the Cuban population as a result of the climate of dialogue and more relaxed relations with the government seen since the 1998 visit of Pope John Paul II. […]