Inter Press Service | News and Views from the Global South

Inter Press Service | News and Views from the Global South

Walking Miles In Their Shoes Tharanga Yakupitiyage In light of the millions of refugees escaping persecution in search of a safer, more prosperous future, a new campaign aims to raise awareness of the difficult journeys such populations take around the world. Launched by the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR), the 2 Billion Kilometres to ... MORE > >

Indigenous People, the First Victims of Brazil’s New Far-Right Government Mario Osava "We have already been decimated and subjected, and we have been victims of the integrationist policy of governments and the national state," said indigenous leaders, as they rejected the new Brazilian government’s proposals and measures focusing on indigenous peoples. In an open letter to ... MORE > >

Rethinking Free Trade Agreements in Uncertain Times Jomo Kwame Sundaram After US President Donald Trump withdrew from Obama’s Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), involving twelve countries on the Pacific rim, on his first day in office, Japan, Australia and their closest allies proposed and promoted the Comprehensive and Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) to ... MORE > >

40 Years Since the Khmer Rouge Regime Came to an End in Cambodia Kris Janssens The anniversary is not actually celebrated. After all these years, talking about the Khmer Rouge is still controversial. This is partly because the genocide came ‘from within’. Almost every family has a feud that goes back to this dark history in the seventies. How could this have ... MORE > >

Time for a new Paradigm Roberto Savio The person most qualified to write the foreword for the latest work by Riccardo Petrella, In the Name of Humanity, would actually be Pope Francis, who, using other words but speaking of values and making denouncements, has often argued what the reader will find in its pages. I quote him, because ... MORE > >

AUDIO: Getting to the Heart of Irregular Migration in Nigeria’s Markets Sam Olukoya Thousands of migrants mainly from Sub-Saharan Africa have died or ended up in slavery as they attempt to travel to Europe irregularly through the desert and across the sea. Many were recruited by traffickers who deceived them into believing that the passage to Europe would be safe and easy. The ... MORE > >

Local Innovation Facilitates Solidarity-Based Biogas Networks in Cuba Ivet González Black plastic pipes, readily available on the mainly empty shelves of Cuba’s shops, distribute biogas to homes in the rural town of La Macuca, buried under the ground or running through the grass and stones in people’s yards. The strong blue flame in the kitchens of the eight homes supplied by ... MORE > >

VIDEO: Turning Mangrove Trees into Sustainable Assets for Myanmar Stella Paul In 2015, Worldview International Foundation began a mangrove restoration project, planting saplings of the trees on about 121 hectares of land in Myanmar’s Ayyerwady region. In this video, Aung Aung Myint tells IPS when the mangrove restoration began and elaborates on the main species that ... MORE > >

Solar Energy Crowns Social Housing Programme in Brazil Mario Osava "Solar energy makes my happiness complete," said Divina Cardoso dos Santos, owner of one of 740 houses with photovoltaic panels on the rooftops in a settlement on the outskirts of this central Brazilian city. "The first blessing was thishouse," said the 67-year-old mother of five and grandmother ... MORE > >

Sprouting Mangroves Restore Hopes in Coastal Myanmar Stella Paul Htay Aung is having a moment. The 63-year-old retired professor of Marine Science sits at the foot of a Buddha statue atop a hill on Shwe Thaung Yan sub township, in Myanmar's Ayyerwady region, almost in meditation. Below him, a vast thicket of mangrove glistens in the gold of a setting sun. For ... MORE > >

Mexico’s Forests, Both Victim of and Solution to Climate Change Emilio Godoy "I dream of a healthy, sustainable, well-managed forest," says Rogelio Ruiz, a silviculturist from southern Mexico, who insists that "we have to clean it up, take advantage of the wood, and reforest.” These activities are essential for the ecosystem, especially to adapt to the impacts of climate ... MORE > >

Climate Change Forces Central American Farmers to Migrate Edgardo Ayala As he milks his cow, Salvadoran Gilberto Gomez laments that poor harvests, due to excessive rain or drought, practically forced his three children to leave the country and undertake the risky journey, as undocumented migrants, to the United States. Gómez, 67, lives in La Colmena, in the ... MORE > >