Alternatives International Journal

Articles

• 1 July 2011, by Anna Lekas Miller

  Moroccan Monarchy in the Arab Spring

  Like many Arab revolutionaries before him, including Mohammad Bouazizi of Sidi Bouzid, Tunisia, Oussama Khlefi is young, highly educated, and unable to find work. He has a dual degree in (...)
• 1 July 2011, by Jason Leung

  Hope for an HIV/AIDS Vaccine

  Around the world, HIV/AIDS is a pandemic that is identified as having a devastating effect on all aspects of life, from entire populations to individuals. June 2011 marks the thirtieth (...)
• 1 July 2011, by Salma Moolji

  The Brazilian Surge for Hydroelectricity at Belo Monte: A Beautiful Mountain of Trouble

  Thirty years ago, a Brazilian indigenous group, the Kayapo, burst onto the world stage in full colour, with feather headdresses, painted faces, disked upper lips and the singer Sting by their (...)
• 30 June 2011, by Kevin Kaczmara

  Decentralizing the Effects of the Earthquake in Japan

  While natural disasters are intrinsically unavoidable, the aftermath of such catastrophes is, to an extent, predetermined by a country’s stage of development. As far as the unofficial hierarchy (...)
• 30 June 2011, by Geneviève Lavoie-Mathieu

  Like Fish Out of Water: India’s Landless Farmers

  The Kondh area of central-southwest Orissa and neighbouring states is one of the most abundant areas in high quality bauxite. This has fueled a new wave of mining and metal factory based (...)
• 30 June 2011, by Liza Ponomarenko

  A Lesson to Be Learned from India’s Failing Microfinance

  Microcredit, microfinance, and microlending are synonymously used to describe the trend policy makers attribute to significant reductions in poverty. Essentially, microfinance programs use (...)
• 30 June 2011, by Siddharth Varadarajan

  India’s Stake in Africa’s Future

  A spectre is haunting Europe and America, home to the colonialists and cold warriors of yesterday, the spectre of an Africa—which they ruled and exploited for a century-and-a-half—now coming under (...)
• 30 June 2011, by Patrick Bond

  Gaza: A View From the Ground A South African Perspective

  Here in Palestine, disgust expressed by civil society reformers about Barack Obama’s May 19 policy speech on the Middle East and North Africa confirms that political reconciliation between (...)
• 30 June 2011, by Alternative Information Center

  Activists in Israel Reject German Party’s Position

  The German left-wing party Die Linke issued a shocking statement on 7 June 2011, stating that “We will not participate in initiatives on the Middle East conflict which call for a one-state (...)
• 1 June 2011, by Salma Moolji

  Panama’s Open-Pit Crisis: The Indigenous Struggle Against Mining

  Dawn cracks with the swift motion of clouds cresting over the peaks of Panama’s rolling cordillera. It is six am; the roosters are already crowing and the children, already crying in the (...)
• 1 June 2011, by Nitasha Moothoo-Padayachie

  Gender Mainstreaming in the South African Public Service

  In 1995, the mainstreaming of gender was identified as a key process for instituting change to the new South African democracy. South Africa ratified the Beijing Platform for Action, an agenda (...)
• 1 June 2011, by Liza Ponomarenko

  Environmental Health in China: Poised in Ambiguity

  A rapidly industrializing nation, the Peoples Republic of China is simultaneously lagging and leading in the field of environmental health, which specifically addresses the physical, chemical, (...)
• 1 June 2011, by Geneviève Lavoie-Mathieu

  The Controversy of Land Acquisition in the Developing World

  Global food prices soared dramatically between 2006 and 2008 and again in 2010, which signals a new era of uncertainty and rivalry in the field of global arable land. Lack of arable land and (...)
• 1 June 2011, by Davide Mastracci

  Drugs & Justice

  In the last couple of weeks the outcry aimed at the war on drugs in Mexico has been massive, with tens of thousands descending upon the streets of Mexico City in protest. The desire amongst the (...)
• 1 June 2011, by Erin Hudson

  Anti-homosexuality and Africa

  Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Bill came to life in 2009. Since then, campaigns for the passage of the bill and against homosexuality have occurred throughout Uganda as have protests against the (...)

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