FILM: So Much More Than Just ‘Trafficked Women’
Mimi Chakarova had one simple objective in filming ‘The Price of Sex,’ her award-winning documentary about sex trafficking in Eastern Europe: “I’m trying to reach millions of people,” she told IPS....
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Sisters in the Struggle for Justice
As UN Women, the new United Nations agency dedicated to enhancing gender equality, releases its first major report following the organisation’s launch early this year, its most significant finding may...
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Q&A: “UN Women Is Creating a New Energy”
While in New York to celebrate the launch of UN Women’s flagship biennium publication, “Progress of the World’s Women: In Pursuit of Justice”, Botswana’s Unity Dow sat down with IPS to discuss the...
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Understanding the Roots of Ghana’s Child Labour
At eleven years old, Thema, a native of Kumasi, hopes to be a nurse when she grows up. Currently, however, she is employed wandering between taxis and tro-tros or minibus taxis at rush hour, carrying...
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President’s Death Could Drive National Unity in Ghana
The death of President John Atta Mills will have a sobering effect on national politics in the months leading up to Ghana’s December 2012 election, according to the Executive Secretary of the West...
View ArticleRiding Towards Sustainable Development, on Bamboo
In Ghana, a country burgeoning with traffic congestion, increasing economic growth, and a stark urban-rural divide, making frames of bicycles out of bamboo could be the key to promoting sustainable...
View ArticleHigher Tobacco Taxes Cure for Killer Addiction
By Portia CroweUNITED NATIONS, Jun 1 2011 (IPS) The world is facing a “global epidemic in need of a global effort”, according to a panel of experts on tobacco control, who met at the United Nations...
View ArticleDecriminalising Drugs Moves into the Mainstream
By Portia CroweNEW YORK, Jun 2 2011 (IPS) Several years ago, anyone calling for an end to Washington’s “war on drugs” would be considered a heretic. Today, high- level politicians and business people,...
View ArticlePoor Countries Host Vastly More Displaced People Than Wealthier Nations
By Portia CroweUNITED NATIONS, Jun 22 2011 (IPS) The hardest part of Jan Egeland’s job is coming home at the end of the day. He is the Director of the Norwegian Institute for International Affairs and...
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