Here are some of IPS's most-read stories of the past week — and stories you shouldn't go without reading:

HAITI: Sharing Meagre Supplies, as Graves Multiply
By Ansel Herz
PORT-AU-PRINCE (IPS) – Millions of dollars in aid are pouring into Haiti. Another head of state visits each day. The misery in Port-Au-Prince dominates the news nearly a week after the 7.0 earthquake struck the heart of this island country.
ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=50009

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ZAMBIA:  Police Breaking the Law to Prevent Crime
By Zarina Geloo
LUSAKA (IPS) – Juniper Mwale was attending a funeral in another town when her husband jumped bail and fled the country. Despite not being aware of her husband's escape, police tracked her down and detained her illegally in an effort to force her spouse home.
ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=49983

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LEBANON: Spy On Thy Neighbour
By Ray Smith
NAHR AL-BARED, Lebanon (IPS) – Recentinter-factional clashes in Lebanon's Ain al-Hilweh refugee camp once moreillustrated the fragile security situation in some of its Palestinian camps.Lebanese plans to take over security within the camps are rejected by thePalestinians.
www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=50017

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ECONOMY-VENEZUELA: Buying Frenzy Follows Devaluation
By Humberto Márquez
CARACAS (IPS) – Tens of thousands of shoppers in Venezuela practically stormed businesses selling home appliances and other consumer products after the government cut the exchange rate of the bolivar against the dollar by half.
www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=49952

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MIDEAST:Will You Marry Poor Me
By Eva Bartlett
GAZA CITY (IPS) – “If we hadmoney we'd get married right away,” says Samir*, 23. He has found hisbride, but not the money to hold the wedding.
www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=49976

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SRI LANKA: Media Face Uncertainties in the Run-up to Elections
Analysis by Adithya Alles
COLOMBO (IPS) – The string of events involving the Sri Lankan press over the past week has once again brought the embattled Fourth Estate into the limelight. This comes into sharp focus as the country eagerly awaits the upcoming presidential elections.
www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=49988

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U.S.: Anti-Arpaio March Reignites Pro-Immigrant Movement
By Valeria Fernández
PHOENIX, Arizona (IPS) – Over 20,000 people marched in the streets of Phoenix Saturday in the first mass mobilisation of the year, calling for an end to the criminalisation of undocumented immigrants and the passage of immigration reform legislation.
ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=50008

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BRAZIL: 'Colonisation Made Us Poor,' Say Indigenous Peoples
By Mario Osava
RIO DE JANEIRO (IPS) – “We weren't poor until colonisation made us poor,” indigenous leader Marcos Terena said at the Rio de Janeiro launch of a United Nations report on the State of the World's Indigenous Peoples.
www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=49999

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RIGHTS-PAKISTAN: Not Quite a Happy Ending for Freed Fishermen
By Zofeen Ebrahim
KARACHI (IPS) – Tears streaming down his face, Abdul Karim, 40, stepped onto Pakistan soil for the first time in almost two years. He has just been released from prison for the crime of encroaching on India's waters.
ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=49947

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MALAWI: Green Belt Initiative Taking Shape
By Charles Mpaka
BLANTYRE (IPS) – Let the rains fail, even for several successive seasons, and Malawi should still be able to produce enough to feed itself.
ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=49942

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DEVELOPMENT: China's 'Ant Tribe': Between Dreams and Reality
By Chen Siwu and LiYahong*
BEIJING (IPS) – Every day Yang Hongwei takes the bus home from work, staring silently at the European-style villas, luxury sedans and twinkling lights from the plazas that he sees through the window.
www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=49960

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