HAITI: Patchy Healthcare Adds to Miseries of Women and Girls

Inaki Borda

NEW YORK, Aug 30 2011 (IPS) – I just gave birth on the ground I had no drugs for pain during delivery, one Haitian mother tells Human Rights Watch (HRW) in a report released Tuesday that says a year and a half after the country s devastating earthquake, women and girls are still facing gaps in access to available healthcare services necessary to stop preventable maternal and infant deaths.
Haitian women and girls living in makeshift camps run a high risk of sexual violence. Credit: UN Photo/Sophia Paris

Haitian women and girls living in makeshif…

ICPD25: Lessons From the East

Teruhiko Mashiko, Japan Parliamentary Federation for Population

NAIROBI, Kenya, Nov 13 2019 (IPS) – The Japan Parliamentary Federation for Population represented by Mr Teruhiko Mashiko and its secretariat, the Asian Population and Development Association (APDA) has made a clear and concrete commitment to endorse the ICPD25 agenda. Mashiko tells IPS that Japan, as should every country driven by the well-being of its population, should create the best possible conditions to achieve the ICPD25 agenda.

Interview by Joyce Chimbi at the ICPD25 in Nairobi, Kenya

Q. What lessons are there for developing countries from Japan to accelerate the achieve…