JERUSALEM, Jul 20 (IPS) - As Israel continues to build walls and fences along virtually each of its borders, analysts say the country’s isolationistpolicies and unwillingness to deal with the Palestinians and other Arab neighbours through anything other than forceful means spells disaster.

SRINAGAR, Jul 20 (IPS) - He dreamed of one day running on international athletic tracks and worked hard for seven long years to make this a reality.

WASHINGTON, Jul 20 (IPS) - While Iran, Russia, and China are all pretty scary, the ominous word "sequestration" is what is keeping right-wing hawks and their friends in the defence industry up at night.

WASHINGTON, Jul 19 (IPS) - The World Bank and U.S. government on Thursday each announced major new initiatives aimed at expanding knowledge on the experience of women around the world, while acknowledging that much remains to be done on filling the global “data gap” on women.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, Jul 19 (IPS) - Pedro Melville, 62, a father of nine from Guyana's northwestern gold and manganese mining district of Matthew’s Ridge, sees the impacts of unchecked prospecting on the local environment every day.

WASHINGTON, Jul 19 (IPS) - How many condoms is it legal to carry around in your pocket? That’s the question sex workers in the United States are asking after being routinely targeted by police for having prophylactics – not in itself a crime.

UNITED NATIONS, Jul 19 (IPS) - Syria became the first country in the history of the United Nations to be "protected" for an unprecedented third time by double vetoes cast by Russia and China in the Security Council.

UNITED NATIONS, Jul 19 (IPS) - There has been an alarming increase over the past two years in violence against women human rights defenders and journalists in Mexico, according to women’s human rights organisations.

PHNOM PENH, Jul 19 (IPS) - Parents wait anxiously outside a Phnom Penh hospital. Credit: Mike Hodgkinson/IPS

Health experts are blaming high malnutrition levels for an outbreak of hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD) that has killed more than 54 children in impoverished Cambodia since April.

BASSETERRE, St. Kitts, Jul 19 (IPS) - Thirty years into the HIV and AIDS epidemic, Caribbean countries are slowly putting necessary legislation in place to ensure the rights of workers despite their HIV/AIDS and chronic disease status.