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Job Creation Looming Challenge for Post-2015 World

Wednesday, June 19, 2013

UNITED NATIONS, Jun 19 (IPS) - In the aftermath of the global economic crisis and with three years to go until the 2015 deadline of the Millennium Development Goals, global leaders are struggling to formulate a post-2015 agenda that can address the widespread dilemmas of employment and inclusive growth.

Hunger Persists in Latin America’s Bread Basket

Tuesday, June 18, 2013

ROME, Jun 18 (IPS) - Judging by the accolades and diplomas handed out to 11 Latin American and Caribbean countries by FAO, it would be easy to conclude that the region has taken a giant leap towards eradicating hunger.

Rural Mexican Communities Protest Wind Farms

Tuesday, June 18, 2013

MEXICO CITY, Jun 18 (IPS) - "We can't sow our fields, which they have rented for next to nothing. What good do we get out of it?" Guadalupe Ramírez complained about wind farms operating in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca.

Clean Ripples Spread Across East Europe

Tuesday, June 18, 2013

BUDAPEST, Jun 18 (IPS) - Monday's resignation of Czech Prime Minister Petr Necas over a massive corruption scandal may well mark a new era of judicial independence in the Czech Republic and possibly the whole post-communist region.

Colombia, the United States, and Montesquieu

Tuesday, June 18, 2013

ALFAZ, Spain, Jun 18 (IPS) - The United States and Colombia are the leaders in mental anxiety in the Americas.

Both have good reasons: Colombia has witnessed the longest lasting violence in any contemporary country: from 1949, with some interruptions, then on again from 1964 with the notorious guerilla group, the FARC (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia).

The Taliban Torches a Lifeline

Tuesday, June 18, 2013

PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Jun 18 (IPS) - The United States is laying meticulous plans ahead of its 2014 withdrawal from Afghanistan, but it has clearly overlooked how its continued drones strikes on the tribal areas of neighbouring Pakistan will affect the much-anticipated pullout.

Entrepreneurs Seek Way Out of Crisis in Spain

Tuesday, June 18, 2013

MALAGA, Spain, Jun 18 (IPS) - The people in the textile factory where Lourdes Soler presented the design of her skirts had never seen such detailed "blueprints" of a garment. Spain's depressed labour market forced the technical architect to reinvent herself and create her own job – a growing trend in this crisis-stricken country.

Redoubling Efforts Against Racism in Cuba

Tuesday, June 18, 2013

HAVANA, Jun 18 (IPS) - Jokes, songs, crude gestures and epithets that degrade people of African descent are still common in Cuba, despite the fact that the constitution prohibits discrimination based on skin colour, and in spite of more recent political measures, activists say.

Kurds Advance, Into the Unknown

Tuesday, June 18, 2013

GIRKE LEGE, Syria, Jun 18 (IPS) - A ban on political and even social gatherings, a bar on Kurdish language and culture; uprooting people, forced disappearances and a ‘caste' of hundreds of thousands of local Kurds deprived of citizenship... life for Kurds in pre-war Syria was probably as dire as it is today for their kin in Iran.

Analysts Say Oil Could Help Mend U.S.-Venezuela Relations

Monday, June 17, 2013

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