Sex workers march through a street in the Indian city Kolkata to condemn U.S. denial of visas to attend an AIDS conference. Credit: Sujoy Dhar/IPS. KOLKATA, Jul 26 2012 (IPS) – Bare-chested and beaming in the company of many like him, London-based male sex worker Thierry Schaffauser wipes the beads of sweat trickling down his […]
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When Ignorance Is Deadly: Pacific Women Dying From Lack of Breast Cancer Awareness
Local women’s NGO, Vois Blong Mere, campaigns for women’s rights in Honiara, capital of the Solomon Islands. Credit: Catherine Wilson/IPS SYDNEY, Jan 28 2015 (IPS) – Women now face a better chance of surviving breast cancer in the Solomon Islands, a developing island state in the southwest Pacific Ocean, following the recent acquisition of the […]
Bangladesh’s Urban Slums Swell with Climate Migrants
This article forms part of an IPS series on the occasion of the World Humanitarian Summit, taking place May 23-24 in Istanbul. Abdul Aziz stands with one of his children in Dhaka’s Malibagh slum. He came here a decade ago after losing everything to river erosion, hoping to rebuild his life, but has found only […]
Vulnerable Women Suffer the Worst Face of Discrimination in Argentina
“Migration is a right,” read the handkerchiefs held by two women at a demonstration in the Argentine capital for migrants’ rights. At left is Natividad Obeso, a Peruvian who came to Buenos Aires in 1994, fleeing political violence in her country. CREDIT: Camilo Flores / ACDH BUENOS AIRES, Jul 27 2023 (IPS) – Remi Cáceres […]