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Financial Hurdles to Eliminating Leprosy in Micronesia
- Inter Press Service
PALIKIR, Apr 02 (IPS) - Maylene Ekiek has been working with the Department of Health in the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) for 12 years now. She is the head of the National Leprosy Programme in the Pacific island nation, which still remains one of three, along with the Marshall Islands and Kiribati, that is yet to eliminate leprosy.
Has Privatization Benefitted the Public?
- Inter Press Service
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Apr 02 (IPS) - To ensure public acceptability, some benefits accrue to many in the early stages of privatization in order to minimize public resistance. However, in the longer term, privatization tends to enrich a few but typically fails to deliver on its ostensible aims.In most cases of privatization, some outcomes benefit some, which serves to legitimize the change. Nevertheless, overall net welfare improvements are the exception, not the rule.
Never is everyone better off. Rather, some are better off, while others are not, and typically, many are even worse off. The partial gains are typically high, or even negated by overall costs, which may be diffuse, and less directly felt by losers.
Grassroots Organising Points the way in Fight Against Rising Repression
- Inter Press Service
JOHANNESBURG, Apr 02 (IPS) - This article is part of a series on the current state of civil society organisations (CSOs), which will be the focus of International Civil Society Week (ICSW), sponsored by CIVICUS, and scheduled to take place in Belgrade, April 8-12.
Lysa John is the secretary-general of CIVICUS, a global alliance of more than 7,000 activists and civil society organisations across 175 countries.
An Indigenous Nation Battles for Land and Justice in Bolivia
- Inter Press Service
LA PAZ, Apr 02 (IPS) - The ancient Qhara Qhara nation began a battle against the State of Bolivia in defence of its rich ancestral lands, in an open challenge to a government that came to power in 2006 on a platform founded on respect for the values and rights of indigenous peoples.
Sierra Leone: Bio Government’s First Year
- Inter Press Service
LONDON, Apr 01 (IPS) - If the government of Sierra Leone's President Julius Maada Bio were to be graded on their first year's performance in office, it is likely that their report card would read, "promising start, which they must surpass in the years ahead".
Human Rights Defenders Need to be Defended as Much as they Defend our Rights
- Inter Press Service
GENEVA, Apr 01 (IPS) - This article is part of a series on the current state of civil society organisations (CSOs), which will be the focus of International Civil Society Week (ICSW), sponsored by CIVICUS, and scheduled to take place in Belgrade, April 8-12.
Michel Forst is the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders, and a speaker at the International Civil Society Week, 8-12 April 2019, in Belgrade, SerbiaThey are ordinary people – mothers, fathers, sisters, sons, daughters, brothers, friends. But for me they are extraordinary people – the ones who have the courage to stand up for everyone else's rights.
They are the human rights defenders.
2, 4, 8 and ? Billion People
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Apr 01 (IPS) - Joseph Chamie is former Director of the United Nations Population Division.
Two, four and eight billion people is the extraordinary doubling and redoubling of the world's population that occurred in slightly less than a century. World population, which had grown to 2 billion by 1927, doubled to 4 billion by 1974 and will reach 8 billion by around 2023.
What´s in a Name? Everything.
- Inter Press Service
STOCKHOLM / ROME, Apr 01 (IPS) - On March 19, 78 years old Nursultan Äbisjuly Nazarbayev unexpectedly announced his resignation as President of Kazakhstan, referring to the need for "a new generation of leaders". The same day the speaker of the nation´s parliament was appointed as interim president, awaiting presidential elections scheduled for 2020.
The NPT & Conditions for Nuclear Disarmament
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON DC, Apr 01 (IPS) - Daryll G. Kimball is Executive Director, Arms Control Association, Washington DC.
Fifty years ago, shortly after the conclusion of the 1968 nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT), the United States and the Soviet Union launched the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT).
'The First City Completely Devastated by Climate Change' Tries to Rebuild after Cyclone Idai
- Inter Press Service
MAPUTO, Mar 29 (IPS) - The city of Dondo, about 30 kilometres from Beira, central Mozambique, didn't escape the strong winds of Cyclone Idai. It is estimated that more than 17,000 families were displaced and more than a dozen schools were destroyed in the city.
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