Miren Gutiérrez

By Miren Gutierrez* and Oriana Boselli

Luisa Capelli: Italian feminism “has been marginalised”

Credit:Oriana Boselli/IPS

ROME, Sep 22 (IPS) – Four ministers out of 21; 193 parliamentarians out of 952 (upper and lower houses); no party leaders. Why are there so few women in Italian politics?“The feminist movement in Italy has been strong… But in order for women [...]

Miren Gutierrez* interviews HAZEL HENDERSON

Hazel Henderson
 

ROME, Sep 18 (IPS) – Hazel Henderson is a futurist, an economic iconoclast, founder of Ethical Markets Media, and author of the books Building A Win-Win World, Beyond Globalization, Planetary Citizenship, and Ethical Markets: Growing the Green Economy. Her main focus is exploring the “blind spots” in conventional economic theory.She [...]

Miren Gutierrez* and Oriana Boselli interview filmmaker ERIK GANDINI

A poster of the film.
 

ROME, Sep 15 (IPS) – Something new is appearing on the Italian screen. About time, some may say.A documentary titled Videocracy by Erik Gandini shows the face of Italian television, about 90 percent of which is controlled by Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi through [...]

Paolo di Croce
Credit: Miren Gutiérrez/IPS

Miren Gutiérrez interviews PAOLO DI CROCE, head of Slow Food International – IPS/IFEJ
“The day we all decide to eat fresh and local, to eat less meat… we will have a revolution,” says Paolo di Croce, secretary-general of Slow Food International.
BELLAGIO, Italy, Jul 27 (Tierramérica).- Slow Food, obviously, is the opposite of [...]

Miren Gutierrez* interviews AHMED DJOGHLAF, Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity

Ahmed Djoghlaf
 

BELLAGIO, Italy, Jul 17 (IPS) – Declining amphibian populations, dwindling fish stocks, waning ocean biodiversity, loss of forests…All scientists acknowledge that the rate of species loss is greater now than at any time in human history.But there are forces that are attempting [...]

Yesterday, I received a phone call from Panama. It was Jorge Motley, former head of Interpol Panama. He called me to let me know that he had been exonerated of all charges against him. Former attorney-general José Antonio Sossa had sued Motley for trying to document Sossa’s involvement in money laundering. With this legal decision, [...]

El Knight Center for Journalism, de la Universidad de Texas, recoge un artículo mío sobre en informe que está elaborando la Fundación Internacional de Mujeres en los Medios (conocida como IWMF) en su blog sobre periodismo  latinoamericano.
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Fundación internacional recopila informe sobre igualdad de género en la prensa mundial
La Fundación Internacional de Mujeres en los [...]

Miren Gutierrez interviews ELISA MUÑOZ, project coordinator of The Global Report on Women in the News Media

Eliza Munoz

Credit:International Women’s Media Foundation

ROME, Jun 24 (IPS) – For the first time in 15 years, an organisation, the International Women’s Media Foundation (IWMF), is attempting to measure the progress, or lack of progress, of women in media organisations [...]

Sabina Zaccaro and Miren Gutierrez* interview three ‘GUARDIANS OF DIVERSITY’

Panagiotis Sainatoudis

Credit:Bioversity International

ROME, Jun 17 (IPS) – How many varieties of date palm or melon exist? And why should we care? IPS spoke to three ‘Guardians of Diversity’ so named by Bioversity International for their contribution to conservation.Bioversity International is the largest international research organisation dedicated [...]

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 [...]