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U.S.-UGANDA: Award Honours Courageous Gay Rights Activist
Frank Mugisha was just a young teenager in Uganda when he came out as gay. He faced bullying and threats, but he says the stories of lesbian, gay, and transgender friends he later met were much worse –...
View ArticleU.S.: 2010 Saw Record Number of International Students
For the fifth consecutive year, the number of international students studying in the U.S. increased, hitting an all-time record high, according to a report released Monday by the Institute of...
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Workers Send More Money Home, Surpassing Development Aid
Despite a global economic crisis, worsening employment prospects for immigrants and hardening views on immigration in the U.S. and Europe, migrant workers are sending more money home, according to a...
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US: For Many Women, a Prison Sentence Also Means Abuse
While most of the one million women in prison in the U.S. are incarcerated for non-violent offences, many experience harsh treatment that advocates say violates their human rights. Artistic recreation...
View ArticleSOUTH SUDAN: Women Aim to Protect Their Rights in a Young State
As South Sudan maps out its economic future at the South Sudan International Engagement Conference (IEC) this week in Washington, women from the new country called on donors to invest in projects that...
View ArticleU.S.: Greater Oversight Urged for Human Research in Wake of Scandal
The current U.S. system for protecting the subjects of federally-funded medical research, both in the U.S. and around the world, has room for significant improvements, a presidential bioethics panel...
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Conflict Minerals Law Hold-up Threatens Lives in DR Congo
Electronics are at the top of many holiday gift lists in the U.S. this season, but some of those products could be made using minerals from areas of the world where conflicts have led to widespread...
View ArticleProtesters: Free Trade Deals, Drug Patents Derail AIDS Fight
As the nineteenth International AIDS Conference continued in Washington Tuesday, thousands of protesters marched on the White House with a set of demands to end the epidemic. At the forefront were...
View ArticleAIDS Meet Ends with Talk of Cure, But Realities of Scourge Persist
As the International AIDS Conference ended in Washington on Friday, organisers unveiled groundbreaking new research on the promise of early anti-retroviral (ARV) drug therapy. The announcement came...
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U.S. Court Upholds Status Quo on Gene Patents
Is a gene more like a tree trunk or more like a baseball bat? A federal court Thursday took a stand on the question, ruling that isolated DNA molecules are “not found in nature”, and are therefore more...
View ArticleReining in Cowboy Mining Companies
Amanda WilsonBy Amanda WilsonWASHINGTON, Sep 26 2011 (IPS) In the seemingly lawless global free-for-all to lay claim to reserves of the world’s most precious remaining natural resources, experts warn...
View ArticleConcerns Loom over Implications of Enhancement Technology
Amanda WilsonBy Amanda WilsonWASHINGTON, Sep 30 2011 (IPS) Imagine a class of 24 children, three of whom take performance enhancing medicines that increase their chances of scoring high on standardized...
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U.S.: Solar Homes Offer New Hope for Renewable Energy
Amanda WilsonBy Amanda WilsonWASHINGTON, Oct 4 2011 (IPS) As a light drizzle fell Saturday, U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu pointed to solar houses constructed by students on the National Mall park in...
View ArticleAgencies Fight to Save U.S. Foreign Aid from Deep Cuts
Amanda Wilson and Rosemary D'AmourBy Amanda WilsonWASHINGTON, Oct 5 2011 (IPS) Foreign aid could be one of the first items on the chopping block as the United States struggles to address...
View ArticleBiofuels, Speculators Driving Food Price Surges
Amanda Wilson*By Amanda WilsonWASHINGTON, Oct 11 2011 (IPS) A new report on global hunger pinpoints factors at the heart of spikes in food prices it says are exacerbating the unfolding food crisis in...
View ArticleU.S.: ACLU Will Take Gene Patent Case to Supreme Court
By Amanda WilsonWASHINGTON, Oct 14 2011 (IPS) When Jaydee Hanson, then-bioethics director for the United Methodist Church, spoke out publicly against gene patents over 15 years ago, some in the biotech...
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U.S. Urged to Keep Funding U.N Peacekeeping
Amanda WilsonBy Amanda WilsonWASHINGTON, Oct 19 2011 (IPS) High-level United Nations officials and advocates of U.S. involvement in U.N. peacekeeping initiatives in Washington this week urged lawmakers...
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Gene Patents “Like Trying to Keep Water in a Sieve”
By Amanda WilsonWASHINGTON, Oct 21 2011 (IPS) If the U.S. Supreme Court agrees to hear a case on gene patents, observers say the resulting face-off – between a large genetics testing company and a...
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Citizens of Nowhere
Amanda WilsonBy Amanda WilsonWASHINGTON, Oct 25 2011 (IPS) When Mona Kareem, a member of the Bidoun population of Kuwait, was 11 years old, a neighbour Kuwaiti woman asked her where she was from. When...
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U.S. Concerned Over Uganda’s “Deteriorating” Human Rights
Amanda WilsonBy Amanda WilsonWASHINGTON, Nov 2 2011 (IPS) The U.S. State Department Wednesday released a statement criticising what it said was a “deteriorating” human rights situation in Uganda and...
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