THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, India, May 30 2011 (IPS) – For Janu, walking the streets to beg for alms is the only option for survival. After all, she… Read More »INDIA: Unwed Tribal Mothers Seek Aid

Emmanuel Chaco KINSHASA, Sep 27 2011 (IPS) – Every quarter, more than a hundred women with fistulas including many younger than 20 years old are… Read More »DR CONGO: Hard to Save All Women Suffering from Fistula

Zofeen Ebrahim KARACHI, Jul 14 2011 (IPS) – Army soldier Zaheer Abbas and his squad were hunting down militants in the outskirts of Darra Adamkhel,… Read More »PAKISTAN: Soldiers Pay a Price in War on Terrorism

Mantoe Phakathi MBABANE, Aug 16 2011 (IPS) – Despite the 2.4 billion emalangeni (342 million dollar) loan from the South African government to its cash-strapped… Read More »SWAZILAND: Disagreement on How South African Loan Should be Spent

Ashfaq Yusufzai PESHAWAR, Sep 23 2011 (IPS) – With Pakistan s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province turning into the polio capital of the world , authorities are… Read More »PAKISTAN: Fighting a Taliban-Polio Alliance

Patricia Grogg interviews MARÍA GUADALUPE GUZMÁN, director of a team of Cuban researchers working on a vaccine against dengue * – Tierramérica HAVANA, Nov 15… Read More »Q&A: Cuba Advancing Towards a Dengue Vaccine

Athar Parvaiz Danilo Valladares SRINAGAR, Dec 30 2011 (IPS) – Weaning Afghanistan s poppy farmers away from growing the raw material for the bulk of… Read More »AFGHANISTAN: Killing Heroin With Saffron

MEXICO CITY, Feb 22 2012 (IPS) – Orange juice and beef form part of the diet of many people in Mexico and other countries of… Read More »MEXICO: Keeping Traces of Antibiotics Out of Food

SRINAGAR, India, Apr 1 2012 (IPS) – Naseema Akhtar, 38, worries that her daily treks to collect clean water from the mountain springs around her… Read More »Women Pay for Kashmir’s Water Woes

GOROKA, Papua New Guinea, May 8 2012 (IPS) – A new community justice programme being rolled out in Papua New Guinea s vast village court… Read More »Women and Children Look to Community Justice