Marcela Valente
BUENOS AIRES, Nov 2 2006 (IPS) – Mbya Guaraní children living in the subtropical rainforests of Argentina s northeastern province of Misiones are dying from preventable illnesses, and extra provision by the government of money, medicine and food seems unable to halt the catastrophe.
In the last two months, 21 Mbya children have died from respiratory problems or malnutrition, and another 13 are in the hospital. These are large numbers in proportion to the size of the ethnic group 4,083 people according to the National Institute of Statistics and Census (INDEC), or just over 3,000 according to private counts.
Indigenous people and environmentalists say that the root cause of this crisis is deforestation, which is making inroads into Mbya Guaraní territ…
Joyce Mulama
NAIROBI, Nov 30 2006 (IPS) – Which citizens is a government most accountable to? Those who voted it into power? Or is it more the people who re too young to cast ballots too short, even, to reach the table in a voting booth: the children?
If it s the latter, then how has Kenya s government conducted itself towards the nation s children in the matter of HIV/AIDS? Those who pause to take stock of this, Friday, in commemoration of World AIDS Day (for which the theme this year is Accountability ) will find themselves confronted with a situation which often seems to contain more problems than solutions.
The country and the world at large have shown commitment to fighting the disease, but children have received a raw deal, said Michael Angaga, national co-ordi…
Pratap Chatterjee*
WASHINGTON, Jan 18 2007 (IPS) – The convoy of flatbed trucks picked up its cargo at Baghdad International Airport last spring and sped northwest, stacked high with crates of expensive medical equipment. From bilirubin metres and hematology analysers to infant incubators and dental appliances, the equipment had been ordered to help Iraq shore up a disintegrating health care system.
But instead of being delivered to 150 brand-new Primary Health Care centres (PHCs) as originally planned, the Eagle Global Logistics vehicles were directed to drop them off at a storage warehouse in Abu Ghraib.
Not only did some of the equipment arrive damaged at the warehouse, owned by PWC of Kuwait, one in 14 crates was missing, according to the delivery documents. The s…
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Mithre J. Sandrasagra
UNITED NATIONS, Feb 12 2007 (IPS) – They re going to kill him because he killed somebody, so when they kill him, who do we get to kill? asked the 10-year-old daughter of Christina Lawson at the time of her father s execution by the U.S. state of Texas in 2005.
State executions leave such children confused and traumatised and entire families, too. Some are so affected that they are driven to the brink of insanity, a groundbreaking report entitled Creating More Victims: How Executions Hurt the Families left Behind graphically illustrates.
It has been published by Murder Victims Families for Human Rights (MVFHR), a Massachusetts-based organisation representing the family members of the victims of murder and state executions.
Families of the…
Diego Cevallos
MEXICO CITY, Mar 21 2007 (IPS) – Mexico could join Cuba and Guyana as the only countries in Latin America where abortion is legal in cases other than those involving rape or a threat to a pregnant woman s life.
Two draft laws apparently enjoy majority support, and the Church and conservative groups are up in arms.
For the first time there is a serious, mature debate on this, and a strong possibility that abortion will be decriminalised, which would be a very positive step in terms of the rights of women, Martha Júarez, spokeswoman for the non-governmental Information Group on Reproductive Choice (GIRE), told IPS.
Last week, opposition legislators from the leftist Democratic Revolution Party (PRD), the centrist Institutional Revolutionary Party …
Feizal Samath
COLOMBO, Apr 24 2007 (IPS) – As the world prepares for yet another scary #39 report by the United Nations panel on global warming and climate change, a Sri Lankan specialist in the group says Tamil rebels and government troops are actually fighting over land due to be submerged as sea-levels rise.
#39 #39A major part of Jaffna and other northern areas (of Sri Lanka) will be submerged when the sea-level rises. So people are fighting and dying over areas that may soon not be there, #39 #39 Prof. Mohan Munasinghe, vice-chairman of the U.N. #39s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), told IPS in an interview.
Jaffna, seat of a revolt for an independent homeland for minority Tamils, lies on the northern tip of the island. Northern and eastern coas…
Antoaneta Bezlova
BEIJING, May 31 2007 (IPS) – Chinese leaders have promised to make the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing non-smoking ambitious for this country of 360 million smokers. Never have the Games that celebrate physical fitness been held in a country more hooked on tobacco and more afflicted by smoking-related diseases.
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China s smoking population, as in so many other global rankings, is the world s biggest. Nearly 60 percent men in the country smoke and proffering cigarettes is a ritualised form of social courtesy. But the health toll from the smoking addiction is also very high an estimated 1.2 million Chinese die every year …