News headlines in September 2009, page 6

  1. LATIN AMERICA: Strides and Setbacks for Domestic and Rural Workers

    - Inter Press Service

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    In the last few years, several Latin American countries have attempted to improve labour conditions for rural workers and domestics, whose labour rights have long been ignored. But the new laws, even those with limited scope, are not always enforced.

  2. MIDEAST: A Good Time Not to Make Peace

    - Inter Press Service

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    Most analysts agree that the past week of Middle East diplomacy has actually set back the cause of peacemaking. If they are right that the intensive U.S.-led effort has actually diminished prospects for a breakthrough towards Palestinian-Israel peace, who is to blame?

  3. MALAYSIA: Gov’t Urged to Stem the Tide of Child Trafficking

    - Inter Press Service

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    'My family was starving. . . . I was sold to people who brought me here to work and feed my family back home,' said Ah Mun, a victim of child trafficking.

  4. ARGENTINA: New Voice for Sexual Minorities

    - Inter Press Service

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    A monthly magazine published by an Argentine umbrella group of some thirty organisations of lesbians, gays, bisexuals and trans (LGBTs) seeks to become a major communications channel for the community and an instrument for disseminating the actions that sexual minorities undertake to defend their rights.

  5. RIGHTS: Shelters Open for Battered Husbands

    - Inter Press Service

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    One in three women is ill-treated by someone or other in family homes, survey after survey shows. And so the total of three men living in shelter in a small home for battered husbands may seem unmentionably small in comparison.

  6. RIGHTS-AFRICA: Uganda women seek engendered recovery plan

    - Inter Press Service

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    After two decades of war during which thousands of children were used as child soldiers and many women raped, Northern Uganda’s recovery plan is to be spent on building roads rather than helping the country’s most vulnerable.

  7. KENYA: Slum Upgrade Is Land Grab - Nubians

    - Inter Press Service

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    Her neighbours moved away one week ago, but Fatuma Abou sits against the tin door of her Kibera shack with a hijab over her head, chin on her knees and a defiant expression on her face when she looks up.

  8. ASIA: Climate Change Puts Mekong Region’s New Species at Risk

    - Inter Press Service

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    The rich and unique biodiversity of the Mekong region, which has been discovered only since the recent years, is likely to be put at risk by environmental impacts that climate change is expected to bring, says the World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF) in a report launched here Friday.

  9. SOUTH AMERICA-AFRICA: Summit for South-South Cooperation

    - Inter Press Service

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    South American and African leaders are meeting over the weekend on the Caribbean island of Margarita in their second summit in three years, to forge stronger cooperation between the two regions and discuss their positions with regard to a number of pressing international concerns.

  10. G20: Leaders Agree on Reforms, Poor Still 'Out in the Cold'

    - Inter Press Service

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    World leaders at the two-day G20 Summit in the U.S. city of Pittsburgh agreed to work cooperatively to recover from the global economic crisis and create structural reforms with long-term growth as the goal.

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