RIGHTS: State of India’s Children: An Unsettling Reality
Analysis by Neeta Lal
NEW DELHI - Here is a sobering thought on the eve of Children’s Day celebrated across India on Nov. 14. Despite the country’s impressive economic growth trajectory and growing geopolitical heft, the benefits of that prosperity are not percolating down to its children who constitute a sizeable 30 percent of the country’s 1.2 billion population.
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WATER-AFRICA: Civil Society Demands Action, Not Words
By Nasseem Ackbarally
MIDRAND, South Africa - "No more commitments... We have had enough of the promises. Can we please see something happening on the ground? Right now, it is business as usual and that’s why Africa is off-track on the MDG target."
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SWAZILAND: Help Sex Workers - Senator
By Mantoe Phakathi
MBABANE - It is one of the world's oldest professions, dating so far back that it is even mentioned in the Bible. But in the deeply cultural and religious country of Swaziland, Senator Thuli Msane stirred a hornet's nest when she publicly challenged a new strict bill opposing prostitution.
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PAKISTAN: Military Vs Militancy Does Not Equal Peace
By Zofeen Ebrahim
KARACHI - As militant attacks in Pakistan continue unabated, there are increasing calls for the government to rethink its strategy—and look deep within.
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VIETNAM: Human Rights, Health: Twin Issues for Climate Change
By Helen Clark
HANOI - Vietnam will be one of five nations most affected by climate change. Worst-case scenarios see large parts of the low-lying and flood-prone Mekong Delta area, which produces much of the nation’s rice crop, flooded.
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AFRICA: Taking the Lead on Water
By Zenzele Ndebele and Nasseem Ackbarally
MIDRAND, South Africa - Water is a resource that binds people together, for better or worse.
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POLITICS-US: The Healthcare Sausage Factory
By Camille Elhassani*AJ/IPS
WASHINGTON - Watching healthcare reform legislation pass through the U.S. Congress is like watching sausage get made. It is a gory and lumbering process of alliances and amendments, procedure and pandering.
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FRANCE: Top Designers Make Dolls to Fund Darfur Vaccinations
By Alecia D. McKenzie
PARIS - Designer rag dolls, the concept couldn’t sound more frivolous. But dolls made by top fashion designers such as Armani and Prada are helping to fund a vaccination programme in war-torn Darfur.
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U.S.: "War Comes Home" with Ft. Hood Shootings
By Dahr Jamail
PHOENIX, Arizona - While investigators probe for a motive behind the mass shooting at the Fort Hood military base in Texas Thursday, in which an army psychiatrist is suspected of killing 13 people, military personnel at the base are in shock as the incident "brings the war home".
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HEALTH: Uganda’s Counterfeits Bill Threatens Access to Medicine
By Wambi Michael
KAMPALA - Uganda is considering an anti-counterfeit bill which analysts say will impair the country’s ability to import and export cheap but effective generic medicines. Activists fear that the bill, once enacted, will deny Ugandans access to safe, effective, quality and affordable generic medication which currently forms the bulk of Uganda’s medicine imports.
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