SAN JUAN OPICO, El Salvador, Apr 06 (IPS) - The participation of children and teenagers in the sugar cane harvest, a dangerous agricultural activity, will soon be a thing of the past in El Salvador, where the practice drew international attention 10 years ago.

AL SHUYUKH, Southern West Bank, Apr 06 (IPS) - "Exactly which olive trees do you want to see? The Israeli settlers have cut down thousands. Can you be more specific?" asked the taxi driver, telling IPS that he wished to remain anonymous.

JERUSALEM, Apr 04 (IPS) - There was a symbolic dimension to a recent four-day march from the periphery of Israel to the corridors of power in Jerusalem to seek recognition for Bedouin villages.

COLOMBO, Apr 04 (IPS) - Jessi Joygeswaran seems like your typical 23-year-old young woman. She has an infectious smile and laughs a lot when she talks. Like many other young women anywhere in the world, her life is full of dreams.

WASHINGTON, Apr 03 (IPS) - Two days after the deadline for reaching a deal over Iran's nuclear programme had passed, negotiators looked like they would be going home empty handed. But a surprisingly detailed framework was announced Apr. 2 in Lausanne, Switzerland, as well as in Washington, and in the same breath, U.S. President Barack Obama acknowledged the battle he faces on Capitol Hill.

RIO DE JANEIRO, Apr 03 (IPS) - In Brazil water and electricity go together, and two years of scant rainfall have left tens of millions of people on the verge of water and power rationing, boosting arguments for the need to fight deforestation in the Amazon rainforest.

NEW DELHI, Apr 02 (IPS) - As more and more people in India enter the ‘senior citizen' category, ugly cracks are beginning to appear in a social structure that claims to value the institution of family but in reality expresses disdain for the bonds of blood.

SAO PAULO, Apr 02 (IPS) - When you are faced with the task of moving an object but find it is too heavy to lift, what is your immediate and most natural response? You ask someone to help you lift it. And it makes all the difference.

ROME, Apr 02 (IPS) - A global civil society petition to save the Amazon is circulating on the internet and its promoters say that once one million signatures have been collected indigenous leaders will deliver it directly to the governments of Brazil, Colombia and Venezuela.