News headlines in 2011, page 191

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 United Nations' newest entity, its landmark report, and the road ahead for women.

In Kenya buying medicine from any unregistered pharmacy outlet means that you are running a higher risk of buying either substandard or counterfeit drugs that form 30 percent of all drugs sold in the country.

In Europe, the financial crisis is not in Athens but in Brussels. The governments of the eurozone allowed Greece into the monetary union without performing the necessary evaluations despite suspicions that its balance sheets contained false entries and that Athens' deficit was far higher than it declared, writes Roberto Savio, founder and president emeritus of Inter Press Service (IPS) news agency.

Governments and soldiers alike must uphold their human rights obligations while in another country, the European Court on Human Rights ruled in Strasburg last week.

The United Nations Security Council approved the one-year UN Mission in the Republic of South Sudan (UNMISS) consisting of seven thousand military personnel and up to 900 civilians, UN deputy spokesperson Farhan Haq, told reporters Friday.

The human spirit has a truly remarkable capacity -the ability to generate hope from the most devastating of crises. This ability to create value can be seen in the response to the earthquake that struck Japan on March 11.

Violence against women is rampant, devastating and tolerated in South Sudan and the new country needs to address these gross human rights violations and train people, especially soldiers, to respect women’s rights.

Ali Mohsen knows how to tell a good fish story. The wiry, white-haired Egyptian mariner weaves a yarn about his childhood days when the sea was so full of fish that one could simply dangle a hand net over the side of the boat and pull up a seafood dinner. This morning, his crew spent hours out at sea with only four kilos of small fish to show for it.

In dire need of money to assist her family back home, 27-year-old Makeda from Ethiopia was forced to return to the Middle East as a domestic worker.

While ‘data exclusivity’ clauses will not feature in the India-European Union free trade agreement (FTA), the threat posed by the impending deal to the world’s supply of cheap generic drugs is far from over.