Miren Gutiérrez

Mario de Queiroz and Miren Gutierrez* interview MARIO SOARES, former Portuguese President

Mario Soares
 

LISBON, Jun 3 (IPS) – Global house prices are diving further, unemployment in the 16 countries using the euro increased in April to its highest level in almost ten years, and Eurozone Gross Domestic Product is expected to shrink by 1.9 percent during [...]

Miren Gutierrez* interviews LUIS ROSARIO ALBERT, filmmaker

Juan Melendez

Credit:Luis Rosario Albert

ROME, Apr 28 (IPS) – Puerto Rican Juan Melendez spent more than 17 years on death row in a Florida prison for a 1983 murder to which another man had repeatedly confessed – evidence prosecutors withheld. He was only released in 2002. Now a documentary [...]

My two-part article on women in the media has been selected as part of a UNESCO initiative to promote women “Gender Equality Policies in Media Organizations (2009)”.

Miren Gutierrez* interviews SAADIA ZAHIDI, head of the Women Leaders and Gender Parity Programme at the World Economic Forum (WEF)

Saadia Zahidi.

Credit:World Economic Forum

ROME, Mar 18 (IPS) – Denying women access to political and economic power is a “strategic waste”, says Saadia Zahidi, co-author of the WEF’s Global Gender Gap (GGG) report in a telephone interview [...]

Miren Gutierrez* interviews SARAH FINKE, of the International Transport Workers’ Federation

Sarah Finke

Credit: ITF

ROME, Feb 13 (IPS) – Shipping used to be for men. Now women are starting to be seen commanding merchant vessels, oil tankers and cruisers, “manning” ships and operating liner engines.
In an e-mail interview with IPS, Sarah Finke – the Women’s Officer at [...]

Miren Gutierrez interviews AYE AYE WIN of Dignity International

Aye Aye Win
 

ROME, Jan 26 (IPS) – NGOs like Dignity International are packing their bags to fly to Belem in Brazil where the World Social Forum (WSF) is taking place this year. The stakes are high.“We are all gathering in Belem because we still firmly believe that [...]

Miren Gutierrez* interviews NANCY SNOW, propaganda expert

Nancy Snow

Credit:Nancy Snow

ROME, Jan 22 (IPS) – The war of words continues in Gaza, in spite of the ceasefire. Nancy Snow, propaganda expert, talks to IPS about information spin strategies and whether we, the public, have learnt any lessons from Iraq.
Snow is a writer and a Huffington Post blogger. [...]

Miren Gutierrez interviews SYLVIA BORREN, Co-Chair of the GCAP

Sylvia Borren

Credit:Sabina Zaccaro/IPS

ROME, Dec 4 (IPS) – The Doha Financing for Development Conference is over and many are now wondering how it went and what really happened. Sylvia Borren, co-chair of the Global Call to Action Against Poverty (GCAP), was there.
In an email interview with IPS, Borren [...]

By Miren Gutierrez*

ROME, Nov 19 (IPS) – The oil tanker Sirius Star may be the largest ship to have been hijacked so far, but piracy is far from rare. In all 251 such incidents worldwide have been reported this year to the Piracy Reporting Centre (PRC) of the International Maritime Bureau.For ship crew, sailing can [...]

By Antonio Marafioti and Miren Gutiérrez

ROME, Oct 16 (IPS) – “Our voices must reach the ears of the leaders who govern us,” says Marina Ponti, describing this year’s campaign by the Global Call to Action Against Poverty (GCAP).
Referring to the Stand Up and Take Action campaign, Ponti, the United Nations Millennium Campaign Europe director, says [...]