Young gang violence is endemic in the Central American nations of Guatemala and El Salvador, and its tentacles have spread north. Some would say the process has worked in reverse fashion — as GPM correspondent Victoria Fenner reports.
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During South Africa’s Apartheid years, black families were routinely evicted from their land; forced to trade their labour for a small plot to grow crops, or raise chickens and cows. Women and girls fared the worst. Finding a place of their own to live was virtually impossible. Beatings, murders, and sexual violence were rampant. Sixteen years after the collapse of Apartheid, life in South Africa is as difficult as it’s ever been for women. Jean Parker reports.
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Agriculture is the backbone of Tanzania’s life and economy. Three quarters of her people are small-scale, peasant farmers. Earning a living is tough. Soils are exhausted; water is scarce. Improved seed is an inaccessible luxury. Concrete policies that empower small-scale, rural farmers–particularly women, who produce most of Tanzania’s food–need to be boldly implemented. GPM contributor Josephat Mwanzi reports from Dar es Salaam, in the wake of a forum on African agriculture.
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Palestinian rap is only about a decade old, but it has spread through out Israel, Palestine, and now to Lebanon. The rappers look to Tupac Shakur and the socially conscious rappers, and reject the gangsta image so popular in the west. Correspondent Reese Erlich reports from Beirut.
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One night, Mariana had a dream. She dreamed that she was happy to go to work. Full of energy, she imagined herself arriving at the textile factory in a Honduran industrial park. Her supervisor greeted her and Mariana was delighted to find a comfortable ergonomic chair waiting for her in front of the machine that she operates. Then she woke up.
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An Interview with 1989 Right Livelihood Award winner Melaku Worede.
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