Daniela Estrada

SANTIAGO, Jun 6 2006 (IPS) – María Angélica is a Chilean woman who could not work in her profession as a chef for nearly two years, because she had to look after her mother, who was ill. Including this kind of unpaid women s work in national budgets is one of the big challenges Latin America faces in order to make progress in gender equality.
Experts brought together by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and the Pan American Health Organisation (PAHO) have been working out methods of doing this at an International Workshop on Household Satellite Accounts: Gender and Health, which ended Tuesday in the Chilean capital.

This is the fourth time that experts from the region on the Systems of National Accounts (SNA) have me…

Alberto Cremonesi

NEW YORK, Jul 19 2006 (IPS) – When thousands of delegates from around the world gather in Toronto next month for the Sixteenth International AIDS Conference, a leading human rights group has urged them to consider the following cases.
The murder in June of Vivian Kavuma in Uganda by her lover after she disclosed that she was infected with HIV.

The brutal stabbing with a pitchfork of 15-year-old Isaiah Gakuyo last April in Kenya by his uncle simply because the orphan was HIV-positive. There were numerous witnesses to the attack, but none intervened.

The murder of in June 2005 human rights activist Octavio Acuña Rubio in a condom shop he owned in Mexico.

The arrests in December of five Zimbabwean AIDS activists commemorating World AIDS…

Thalif Deen

STOCKHOLM, Aug 25 2006 (IPS) – The world s future wars will be fought not over oil but water: an ominous prediction made by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the British ministry of defence and even by some officials of the World Bank.
The world s future wars will be fought not over oil but water: an ominous prediction made by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the British ministry of defence and even by some officials of the World Bank.

But experts and academics meeting at an international conference on water management in the Swedish capital are dismissing this prediction as unrealistic, far-fetched and nonsensical.

Water wars make good newspaper headlines but cooperation (agreements) don t, says Arunabha Ghosh, co-author of t…