News headlines in August 2011, page 2

  1. MAURITANIA: Fresh Attempt at Irrigated Agriculture

    - Inter Press Service

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    In a bid to reduce food insecurity, the Mauritanian government is turning to several new approaches to agriculture, including expanded irrigation schemes, popularising new crops and harnessing the energy of recent graduates.

  2. ARGENTINA: Child Allowance Restores Families' Ties with Schools

    - Inter Press Service

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    Conditional cash transfers to poor families with children in Argentina 'have had a very positive impact,' says an enthusiastic Graciela Dulcich, the principal of a primary school in a poor neighbourhood on the outskirts of Buenos Aires.

  3. Watchdogs Blast Ethnic Cleansing in South Kordofan

    - Inter Press Service

    A story from Inter Press Service, an international news agency

    On Jun. 19, Angelo al-Sir, a subsistence farmer from a small village east of Kadugli, capital of the oil-rich South Kordofan state in Northern Sudan, saw his pregnant wife, two of his 10 children, his nephew and another relative killed in an airstrike in broad daylight.

  4. ARGENTINA: Child Allowance Restores Families' Ties with Schools

    - Inter Press Service

    A story from Inter Press Service, an international news agency

    Conditional cash transfers to poor families with children in Argentina 'have had a very positive impact,' says an enthusiastic Graciela Dulcich, the principal of a primary school in a poor neighbourhood on the outskirts of Buenos Aires.

  5. U.S. Muslims Upbeat Despite Scrutiny Since 9/11

    - Inter Press Service

    A story from Inter Press Service, an international news agency

    Despite increased public scrutiny since the 9/11 terrorist attacks and well-funded campaigns promoting Islamophobia, U.S. Muslims express a significantly higher level of satisfaction with their lives, their local communities, and the country's general direction than does the public at large, according to a major new survey released here Tuesday by the Pew Research Center.

  6. MAURITANIA: Fresh Attempt at Irrigated Agriculture

    - Inter Press Service

    A story from Inter Press Service, an international news agency

    In a bid to reduce food insecurity, the Mauritanian government is turning to several new approaches to agriculture, including expanded irrigation schemes, popularising new crops and harnessing the energy of recent graduates.

  7. BRAZIL: Rainforest Defenders Marked for Death

    - Inter Press Service

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    Raimundo Francisco Belmiro dos Santos, a defender of the Amazon jungle, has requested urgent protection from the authorities in Brazil after reporting that a number of hired gunmen are looking for him, because landowners in the northern state of Pará have offered a 50,000 dollar contract for his death.

  8. HAITI: Patchy Healthcare Adds to Miseries of Women and Girls

    - Inter Press Service

    A story from Inter Press Service, an international news agency

    'I just gave birth on the ground...I had no drugs for pain during delivery,' one Haitian mother tells Human Rights Watch (HRW) in a report released Tuesday that says a year and a half after the country's devastating earthquake, women and girls are still facing gaps in access to available healthcare services necessary to stop preventable maternal and infant deaths.

  9. Q&A: 'When People Are Mad, They Start to React' to Corruption

    - Inter Press Service

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    The fight against corruption has taken centre stage in the government of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff, and has led to the resignation or dismissal of several ministers over just a few months.

  10. IRAN: Music Finds a Voice in Tehran

    - Inter Press Service

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    The waiter at the coffee shop moves rapidly to the entrance for a quick glance outside. Within, a young Iranian musician has started to play the saxophone. He has five minutes to perform, he cannot risk a raid on the 'guerrilla' location for a little music.

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