Inter Press Service | News and Views from the Global South

Inter Press Service | News and Views from the Global South

These Aliens Are Here to Stay (And They Are Dangerous) Baher Kamal No, no, no. Nothing to do with what US and Europe’s far-right fanatics now use to vociferate, saying once and again that “migrants come here to destroy our democracy, our civilisation, and our life-style”. Rather the complete opposite—this is about a major damage that precisely "our ... MORE > >

US “Emergency” Arms Sales to Mideast Nations Under Fire Thalif Deen When the UN Security Council met last week to discuss the deaths and devastation caused to civilians in ongoing military conflicts and civil wars, the killings in Yemen and the air attacks on hospitals, schools, mosques, and market places—whether deliberate or otherwise-- were singled out as the ... MORE > >

Finance’s New Avatar Jomo Kwame Sundaram and Michael Lim Mah Hui Over recent decades, the scope, size, concentration, power and even the purpose and role of finance have changed so significantly that a new term, financialization, was coined to name this phenomenon. Financialization refers to a process that has not only transformed finance itself, but also, ... MORE > >

US Threats to Dismantle Palestinian Refugee Agency Trigger Protests Thalif Deen As it relentlessly pursues its strongly pro-Israeli policy – along with its disdain for multilateralism – the Trump administration continued to display its hostility towards the United Nations and its humanitarian agencies at a meeting of the UN Security Council focusing on the recent escalation of ... MORE > >

Zimbabwe’s Resettled Farmers Hawking Cigarettes to Survive Jeffrey Moyo For subsistence farmer Rogers Hove—who proudly brandishes a worn out letter for his five hectare piece of land he obtained from government following the chaotic land seizures from white commercial farmers over two decades ago—what matters most to him, “is to see my piece of land in my ... MORE > >

Educating Girls about Menstruation and Menstrual Hygiene Ida Horner The organisers of Menstrual Hygiene Day say that although there has been a lot of good work on Menstrual Hygiene Management (MHM) either currently underway or already completed, we are a long way off from achieving an even playing field for girls and women worldwide. Menstruation stigma persists ... MORE > >

The Time is Now: End Sexual and Gender-Based Violence Tharanga Yakupitiyage It’s time to end sexual and gender-based violence once and for all, participants of a two-day conference said. In Norway, United Nations agencies, governments and civil society convened for the first-ever thematic humanitarian conference to combat sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) in ... MORE > >

Modernity Triumphs over Feudalism in India Ranjit Devraj “We worked for the poor and they voted us back to power,” was the explanation that Prime Minister Narendra Modi made to newly-elected legislators on Saturday, May 25, on the spectacular win scored by his nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in India’s just concluded general elections. ... MORE > >

The World Made Promises to Women and Girls, We Must Fulfil Them Monica Juma In 1994 the International Conference and Population and Development (ICPD) was hosted in Cairo by the Government of Egypt. Twenty-five years later, Kenya is ready to convene the ICPD “Nairobi Summit” in November 2019. The Programme of Action endorsed and adopted at the historic Conference in ... MORE > >

Class Analyst: Global Income Inequality Chris Wellisz As a child growing up in Communist Yugoslavia, Branko Milanovic witnessed the protests of 1968, when students occupied the campus of the University of Belgrade and hoisted banners reading “Down with the Red bourgeoisie!” Milanovic, who now teaches economics at the City University of New York, ... MORE > >