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Popular Abroad, Kenyan Nobel Laureate Maathai Faces Challenges at Home

Tabitha Nderitu May 14, 2009 Tabitha Nderitu

Wangari Maathai

Nairobi,

Kenya

- Though her status as the first and only woman from Africa to be awarded with the prestigious Noble Peace Prize offered the opportunity for a promising political career, the indomitable Professor Wangari Maathai has seen her grand plans falter. Maathai's ambitions to ascend to high political office continue to be challenged by a patriarchal society and populace that doesn't support her, believing she in not in touch with the everyday realities of Kenyan life.

Romania: Gypsies Celebrate Roma Day, Yet Fear Reigns

Chuck Todaro April 30, 2009 Chuck Todaro

Roma Day Event in Apalina

Romania is home to Europe's largest Roma population and is the setting for some of the most pervasive societal violence and discrimination against Roma. The Twentieth International Roma Day was celebrated in bittersweet events throughout Romania on April 8th. "This day offers the press the chance to reverse the usual negative stereotypes," says Roma journalist Rudolf Moca.

Argentina Remembers: Marches Mark 33rd Anniversary of Military Coup

Benjamin Dangl April 21, 2009 Benjamin Dangl

The weekend that the hemisphere's Presidents met in Trinidad at the Summit of the Americas marked the same weekend that Cuba defeated the US in the Bay of Pigs invasion 48 years ago. At the Summit, Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega recalled the invasion in a speech that rightly criticized US imperialism throughout the 20th century. President Barack Obama replied, "I'm grateful that President Ortega did not blame me for things that happened when I was three months old."

An End to the War on Weed?

Nathan Comp April 20, 2009 Nathan Comp

As a medley of border violence, recessionary pressure, international criticism and popular acceptance steadily undermines America's decades-long effort to eliminate drugs and drug use, the U.S. movement to legalize marijuana is gaining unprecedented momentum.

Moldova: Demonstrations Could Lead to Economic Changes

Rene Wadlow April 14, 2009 Rene Wadlow

President Vladimir Voronin

In Moldova, recent political demonstrations may be the spark needed for serious economic planning, and may help focus the minds of political and civic leaders on the basic issue of the population: a better standard of living.

The ‘Poorly Housed’ Rise Up in France

Sammy Loren April 8, 2009 Sammy Loren

Though France's endless winter is finally thawing, for tens of thousands spring time marks the beginning of another cold spell: evictions and the wild goose chase for a new place to sleep. People waiting for years to get into public housing, those living in unsafe conditions, the homeless, and those crammed into dilapidated hotels make up the over three million people in France classified as mal-logés, or the 'poorly housed.' French housing laws prohibit evictions during the winter, thus for the mal-logés, the season's changing brings little relief.