Bangladesh faces a challenge to ensure welfare of its aging …
Feb 22, 2019 · This report is produced by UNB United News of Bangladesh and IPS Inter Press Service.. DHAKA, Bangladesh, Feb 22 2019 - (IPS/UNB) – Bangladesh economy’s impressive growth trajectory over the last decade has been buttressed by the demographic dividend resulting from a large portion of its population — around 65 percent on average — being of working age.
Cross-country Differences in Income Inequality - Inter Press Service
Sep 1 2016 - In recent years, there has been a growing interest among general people, researchers and policymakers in income inequality, its causes, and its effects. The most popular index of income inequality is the ‘Gini index’, which measures the inequality among levels of income of the people of any country.
Kenya: The troubles of a science PhD from the West
NAIROBI, Kenya, Aug 27 2019 (IPS) - Graduate students of the London School of Economics and Political Science gathered at Kenya’s coast in September 2018, where the Secretary-General of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) Dr Mukhisa Kituyi told them: “With your international credibility, it is easier and tempting to leave and take out of the continent the little ...
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Trujillo's Victims Seek Justice, Nearly Five ...
May 31, 2007 · Diógenes Pina. SANTO DOMINGO, May 31 2007 (IPS) - Forty-six years after the death of Dominican dictator Rafael Leónidas Trujillo, human rights groups and victims’ families are seeking justice for the murders, torture, kidnappings and illegal arrests committed against thousands of people during his 1930-1961 regime. A lawsuit was filed Wednesday against a group of former agents of the ...
Peter Kamalingin - Author - Inter Press Service
The corona virus pandemic is impacting Africa’s population in quite differentiated ways and is significantly entrenching inequality. At the greatest risk are lives and livelihoods of the poor.
RIGHTS: Fighting the ‘War on Terror’ - Inter Press Service
Julio Godoy. PARIS, Sep 8 2008 (IPS) - The “war on terror” in the aftermath of the attacks of Sep. 11, 2001 has undermined human rights globally, according to activists and experts who attended a UN conference in Paris. “Immediately after Sep. 11 we saw a dramatic change in government policies with regard to terrorism, suspected terrorism, and the monitoring of citizens, with the ...
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ARGENTINA: Survivors, Activists Disappointed Over Human Rights …
Oct 18, 2007 · Marcela Valente. BUENOS AIRES, Oct 18 2007 (IPS) - The first trial for the crimes against humanity committed in Argentina’s Navy School of Mechanics (ESMA) opened Thursday in the Argentine capital. But survivors of the notorious torture centre, where at least 5,000 political prisoners were held at some point during the 1976-1983 dictatorship, are not celebrating.
RIGHTS-JAPAN: Ainu People to Press Demands at G8 Summit
Apr 28, 2008 · Catherine Makino. TOKYO, Apr 28 2008 (IPS) - Japan's hosting of the G8 summit in Hokkaido in July will afford a rare opportunity for the Ainu people who live on the island to press their long-standing demand to be recognised as an indigenous people.
LAOS: Water Headaches Follow Growth of Cities - Inter Press Service
Jun 24, 2010 · Vannaphone Sitthirath. VIENTIANE, Jun 24 2010 (IPS) - At 63, Kingkham Duoangsavanh has it made. Now retired after decades of working as a nurse, she lives happily with her grown-up children in a well- appointed home with all the amenities.