News headlines in 2014, page 147

LA PAZ, Feb 13 (IPS) - Three years ago Bolivia passed a law to combat discrimination and racism, but no one has been convicted as a result, in spite of hundreds of legal complaints.

UNITED NATIONS, Feb 13 (IPS) - Last week, I had the privilege of attending the Delhi Sustainable Development Summit, an annual event that deals with a subject that is very close to my heart.  The summit gathered together amazing people: Nobel Prize winners, thought leaders, heads of state, corporate innovators, and academicians to deal with the paramount challenges of the 21st Century all focused on three pressing dimensions of sustainability:  food, water and energy.

COLOMBO, Feb 12 (IPS) - Sri Lanka's war-battered Northern Province had reason to celebrate when the results of a countrywide exam were announced last December. Of the 16,604 students from the province who sat for the exam, 63.8 percent secured the required marks for entry into prestigious national universities.

CAPE TOWN, Feb 12 (IPS) - The South African government's earnest rush to provide water to millions of people post-apartheid may have jeopardised its attempts to provide services to the country in the long run.

WASHINGTON, Feb 12 (IPS) - U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and several key Republican and Democrat senators agree on the need for criminal justice reform, and some are now even seeking to restore voting rights to former felons.

WASHINGTON, Feb 12 (IPS) - If President Barack Obama wants to move more quickly to normalise ties with Cuba, it appears he has gained the political space to do so, according to analyses of a major new bipartisan public-opinion poll released here Tuesday by the Atlantic Council.

UNITED NATIONS, Feb 11 (IPS) - When over 50 world leaders meet in the Netherlands next month for a Nuclear Security Summit (NSS), the primary focus will be on a politically-loaded question: how do we prevent non-state actors and terrorists from getting their hands on nuclear weapons or nuclear materials?

WASHINGTON, Feb 11 (IPS) - Thirty-five years ago today, millions of Iranians embraced a religious leader promising freedom from a corrupt monarchy and national independence. Now many want a better standard of living and improved civil rights.

MEXICO CITY, Feb 11 (IPS) - "In the long term, what benefit will regulation of the autodefensas bring us? Do you think I have an aptitude or professional vocation for police work?" asked Juan Carlos Trujillo, a peace activist in the Mexican state of Michoacán.

BANGALORE, Feb 11 (IPS) - It is Wednesday afternoon in Bangalore, known as India's tech city for being the hub of information technology companies. In her small four by four-foot studio, Vaishalli Chandra, channel manager of QRadio which is dedicated to the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) community, is in conversation with Ankit Bhuptani, a 21-year-old gay youth from Mumbai.