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What Research Reveals about Drivers of Anti-immigrant Hate Crime in South Africa
- Inter Press Service
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, Sep 09 (IPS) - Mobs have attacked foreign-owned businesses on the streets of at least three South African cities in recent days. This has caused outrage across Africa. There have even been retaliatory attacks. The South African government, under pressure to protect her large international migrant community, quickly defused the attacks.
Litigation, a Mechanism to Ensure Justice and End Stigma for Hansen’s Disease
- Inter Press Service
MANILA, Sep 08 (IPS) - Professor Ai Kurosaka remembers the day she first interacted with a person affected by Hansen's disease. It was 2003 and Kurosaka, then a graduate student of sociology at the Saitama University in Japan, had been assigned to interview ex-patients and their family members to document what kind of discrimination they faced. It was a very difficult task because nobody wanted to speak or identify themselves.
The Business of Social Enterprise
- Inter Press Service
MANILA, Sep 08 (IPS) - Organisations supporting people affected by Hansen's disease (leprosy) have social rather than capitalist aims, but they need to take a business-minded approach to their work if they wish to be sustainable, experts at a global conference in Manila, Philippines said.
Global Network Key to Strengthening Leprosy Organisations
- Inter Press Service
MANILA, Sep 07 (IPS) - Organisations of people affected by Hansen's Disease or leprosy agree that a global network of volunteer groups is key to eradicating the disease, but concrete steps need to be taken to move the idea from an often-discussed concept to a reality.
First Global Forum of Leprosy-Affected People’s Organisations Kicks off in Manila
- Inter Press Service
MANILA, Sep 07 (IPS) - Being part of a platform where leprosy-affected people from all over the world can freely interact, exchange and share opinions, ideas, experiences and strategies was always something Tasfaye Tadesse dreamt of.
Zimbabwe’s ex-President Robert Mugabe Leaves a Mixed Legacy
- Inter Press Service
BULAWAY, Zimbabwe, Sep 07 (IPS) - Former Zimbabwe strongman Robert Mugabe, who died this week, aged 95, leaves a mixed and divisive legacy.
Desertification Costs World Economy up to 15 trillion dollars - U.N.
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Sep 07 (IPS) - Forest fires, droughts and other forms of land degradation cost the global economy as much as 15 trillion dollars every year and are deepening the climate change crisis, a top United Nations environment official said Friday.
Are 9-to-5 Jobs Fast Becoming History – Even at the UN?
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Sep 06 (IPS) - With the rapid leap in digital technology – including increased access to conference calls, e-translations, skype, text messaging and emails—more and more offices in the United States are providing employees with an option to "work from home".
Is America Defeated in Afghanistan?
- Inter Press Service
GENEVA, Sep 05 (IPS) - Following the 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks on American soil, the United States and their allies went to Afghanistan to "smoke out" Osama bin Laden and his Taliban protectors. The most fundamental primary mistake was to let all terrorists flee to Pakistan instead of sealing the border and capturing their main figures.
UN’s Upcoming Summits May Foreshadow a Revival of Multilateralism or an Obituary for World Order
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Sep 05 (IPS) - The United Nations will be hosting six high level plenary meetings –- unprecedented even by its own standards—during the beginning of the 74th session of the General Assembly in late September.
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