Milagros Salazar
LIMA, Apr 23 2008 (IPS) – The U.S. company running a large multi-metal smelter in the Peruvian city of La Oroya, one of the most polluted places on earth, is facing sanctions for violating air quality standards.
Credit: Courtesy of La República newspaper.
Mining and metallurgical company Doe Run Peru overran emission limits to such an extent that on Mar. 11 the German independent auditing firm TÜV Rheinland withdrew their ISO 14001 environmental certification, issued in 2006.
In a document seen by IPS, the state Technical Committee on A…
Zofeen Ebrahim
KARACHI, Pakistan, Jul 8 2010 (IPS) – Her husband works as a nurse in one of Pakistan s most prestigious private hospitals, but when their two-year-old daughter Mary was diagnosed with leukaemia, Sadaf John could only be thankful that the Children s Cancer Hospital (CCH) existed in this country.
If it hadn t been for this (hospital), said the 32-year-old mother of three, we would not have been able to afford such expensive treatment.
According to CCH chief Muhammad Shamvil Ashraf, the average cost of a complete treatment for leukaemia at the hospital could run up to 800,000 Pakistani rupees (more than 9,000 U.S. dollars).
Fortunately for the Johns and other families with members seeking treatment at CCH here in Karachi, the hospital is a chari…
WASHINGTON , Dec 12 2013 (IPS) – The U.S. government is being urged to roll back a longstanding policy that has banned foreign aid funding from being used for health care services for victims of sexual violence in conflict situations.
A group of leading U.S. and African NGOs gathered here Wednesday to launch a global campaign that, if successful, would provide millions of women and girls in crisis and conflict areas around the world with post-rape access to comprehensive health care.
The (CHANGE), an advocacy group, was joined by the U.S.-based Human Rights Watch in calling on the administration of President Barack Obama to clarify or repeal four-decade-old legislation, known as the Helms Amendment, that forbids U.S. foreign aid recipients from using this funding to per…