Connexions articles from January 1 1993

Connexions archives from January 1 1993

A new language for the environment: Canada. (role of women in environmental protection)
January 1, 1993... Canada We have been told that traditional development is about technological advancement and increased productivity. Meanwhile, women's issues and environmental issues struggle to be recognized as legitimate development concerns. For...

Stiching shoes and confidence: Pakistan. (all-women shoe factory)
January 1, 1993... (From "Village Women Stitch Shoes and Confidence," by Nyla Daud, a Depthnews Women's Feature, published in the Philippines, September, 1992.) Scissors snip continually at dangling threads. Fingers fly as they handle countless pieces of...

Food under her feet: Dominica. (agro-professor Natalie Charles Andrew's innovative techniques of food production)
January 1, 1993... Dominica (From "Agro-Processor: Natalie Charles Andrew," by Natalie Charles Andrew, CAFRA NEWS, Newsletter of the Caribbean Association for Feminist Research and Action, vol. 5, #4, Sept.-Dec. 1991.) Natalie Charles Andrew first...

Political power starts in the kitchen: Japan. (Seikatsu Club consumer cooperative)
January 1, 1993... Japan (From "Japanese Revolt Against Bad Products," reprinted in the Utusan Konsumer, Malaysian consumer newspaper, Number 244, December 1991.) Michiko Suzuki lives with her husband and two children in a garden flat in Zushi, a...

Hot coffee: India. (fuel from coffee waste)
January 1, 1993... India (From "Women Lighten Chores with Coffee Fuelwood," by Priya Darshini a Depthnews Women's Feature, published in the Philippines, September 1992.) Women workers carrying head-loads of wood for home fuel may soon become a rare...

A view from the south. (views of poor women from developing world regarding environmental issues)
January 1, 1993... (From "Case Studies: The Human Picture at the Micro Level," in Environment and Development: Grass Roots Women's Perspective, a publication of Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN), Barbados, 1992.) DAWN is a network of...

The burden of development: Africa.
January 1, 1993... Africa (Excerpted from "Social Costs of the Crisis: Education, Employment and Health," by Staneala Beckley in Echo, bilingual quarterly newsletter of the Association of African Women for Research and Development, No. 17/18, 2nd and 3rd...

Targets of population control: Latin America. (women and population control)
January 1, 1993... Latin America (Translated and excerpted from "Introduccion," by Ana Maria Portugal in "Poblacion: Hablan las Mujeres," Especial Mujer/Fempress, Latin American feminist periodical, Chile, 1993.) Global food and population policies...

Clean rivers and trash mountains: Philippines.
January 1, 1993... (From "A Renewal of Life," by Margarita S. Perez in Defending Our Future, published by GABRIELA, a Filipino women's coalition, for the 1992 Earth Summit.) The trash crisis in metro Manila, best exemplified by Smoky Mountain, is one of the...

The politics of sustainable development: Japan.
January 1, 1993... Japan (Excerpted from "Money Won't Save the Earth: The Politics of 'Sustainable Development,'" by Kitazawa Yoko in Ampo, Japan-Asia Quarterly Review, Volume 23, Number 3, 1992.) Kitazawa Yoko is a founder of the organization People...

The treasure of the Sierra Madre: Mexico. (Sierra Madre eco-system in Mexico)(views of Maria Teresa Guerrero of the Commission in Solidarity and Defence of Human Rights, COSIDDHAC, Chihuahua, Mexico)
January 1, 1993... Mexico (Translated from "Contra las Invasiones del '92," by Berta Hiriart in Mujer/Fempress, Latin American feminist monthly, Number 123, January, 1992.) Coming from a diverse group of activists (leftists, environmentalists and...

Back to the future: Philippines. (Filipino Women's Organic Farming Project)
January 1, 1993... Philippines (From "Igorot Women Conserve Land," in Igorota, magazine published by the Igorota Foundation, Baguio City, The Philippines, Vol. VI, No. 1, 1992.) Igorot women had practiced century-old methods of land conservation long...

All choked up: Germany. (women's right to drive cars)
January 1, 1993... Germany (Translated from "In Fahrt," by Ursula Ott, in Emma German feminist monthly, Number 2, February 1992.) These days Emma is much quoted and attacked in the German press. What did we do wrong? Did we plead for the maintenance...

Going against the Goliath: Philippines. (women's fight against mining project)
January 1, 1993... Philippines (From "Going Against a Goliath," by Nora O. Gamolo, in Defending our Future, a publication of GABRIELA, a Filipino women's coalition, for the 1992 Earth Summit.) Up north in Itogon, Benguet, small miners and their...

The roots of a movement: India. (Chipko movement to save trees from being felled)
January 1, 1993... (Excerpted from "A Hug for the Himalayas," by Sakuntala Narasimhan, in Deccan Herald, India, Dec. 13, 1992, India.) Along the horizon, the Himalayan range rises in glistening tiers of mist-girdled grandeur, and in the center lies an...

The right tools for the job: Fiji. (technology for women)
January 1, 1993... Fiji (Excerpted from "If It's Not Appropriate for Women, It's Not Appropriate," submitted by Ruth E. Lechte of the World YWCA Energy and Environment/Appropriate Technology Programme, Fiji, December, 1992.) In September, 1989, the...

Taiwanizing a continent: Venezuela. (special industrial zones to achieve export oriented economy)
January 1, 1993... Venezuela (Translated from "Venezuela en la Mira de las Empresas Maquiladoras," by Helena Salcedo in Mujer/Fempress, Latin American feminist monthly, Number 112/113, February--March 1991.) "The maquila [a transnational industry...

One big free trade zone: Canada. (North American Free Trade Agreement, NAFTA)
January 1, 1993... Canada (From "NAFTA: Extending the Damage," by Maude Barlow, in The Womanist, Canadian feminist periodical, Volume 3, Number 2, Fall, 1992.) As Canadians have been agonizing in a very public way about the nature of our...

Special report: women and the peace process. (views of Salvadorean women on peace process)
January 1, 1993... El Salvador (From interviews conducted and edited by Betsy Morgan and Laura Jackson. Serena Cosgrove served as translator and consultant in El Salvador. Submitted to Connexions in January 1993.) On January 16, 1992, Peace Accords...

Trees for life. (program to encourage women's participation in tree planting in Zanzibar)
January 1, 1993... (Excerpted from "National Development Plans Still Ignoring Peasant Women," by Cassandra Balchin, a Depthnews Women's Feature, published in the Philippines, June 1992.) Water and fuelwood. These are needs which peasant women face daily, and...