Natural Disaster
Hijacking Human Rights
IPN Opinion article
New definitions and interpretations of "human rights" threaten real rights -- and now this argument is being dragged into the debate about climate change
Poverty: The Real Threat to Health
IPN Opinion article
Philip Stevens challenges the conclusions reached by a recent study in The Lancet about climate change and health.
Vested Interests in Deadly Medicines
IPN Opinion article
Counterfeit drugs are flooding into Africa, where up to one in three medicines can be fake, causing widespread suffering and death.
Aiding poverty: the G-8's role in Africa's progress
IPN Opinion article
The G8 meeting Hokkaido from 7 to 9 July will inevitably culminate with more calls for more aid to Africa, where US$2.3 trillion over the last 40 years has failed to remove poverty or improve production: there must be a reason that makes poverty perpetual.
Caroline Boin and Alec van Gelder argue that bad policies create bad economies and that aid supports corrupt and incompetent governments as they keep the poor in serfdom - Ethiopia being a particularly nasty example.
How to cause hunger
IPN Opinion article
The UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation celebrated its annual World Food Day with the slogan 'The Right to Food.' But the FAO should have paid more attention to the rights that matter most for 'landless farmers, urban slum dwellersÖand the extremely poor'--the right to own and exchange property and the right to trade freely, both locally and internationally.
India's flood of corruption
IPN Opinion article
Kendra Okonski sets the record straight on why 3,600 villages have been inundated, millions have fled and hundreds have died yet again in the northern Indian state of Bihar.
Save The Tiger: Sell It
IPN Opinion article
The Sustainable Development Network, an international coalition of think tanks and NGOs, argues that trade in certified farmed tiger parts could meet existing and future demand, thereby reducing pressure on wild tigers.
