PORT-LOUIS, Mauritius, Jan 3 2011 (IPS) – Sex workers rights are human rights , close to a hundred people shouted during a recent march in Rose-Hill, a major town in Mauritius. Their aim was to sensitise the population, particularly the parliamentarians, to the state of sex workers on the island.
Sex workers marching for human rights Credit: Nasseem Ackbarrally/IPS
Beaten by their clients and even by police officers, looked down upon by the public and ill treated at hospitals and in other institutions, these women have many door…
A municipal truck sanitizes the streets of Dhaka, Bangladesh in order to prevent COVID-19.
DHAKA, Bangladesh, Jun 22 2020 (IPS) – One of the most densely populated countries in the world, Bangladesh exemplifies the triple blow that many emerging market countries have suffered from COVID-19: domestic slowdown caused by the disease and the efforts to contain its spread; a sharp decline in exports, particularly in the ready-made garment sector, and a drop in remittances. Its once robust economy has dramatically slowed in recent months.
To help Bangladesh during this crisis, the IMF has approved totaling around $732 million. IMF Country Focus spoke wi…
MEXICO CITY, Nov 18 2020 (IPS) – As many have observed worldwide, the outcome of the US presidential elections has been, as expected full of hope and fear. Many people had the bad feeling that if Trump were to be re-elected, the uncertainty, already enormous due to the pandemic and its effects, would jeopardize the economic recovery worldwide. The triumph of Democrat Biden does not guarantee great solutions, but at the least offers a little more of transparency, certainty, and stability.
Saul Escobar Toledo
For Mexico, the result could impact in different senses: the policy towards Latin America; pressures to stop undocumented migration; and the economic and commercial ties bet…