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Helping Women, Period
- Inter Press Service
Want to Learn How to Save a Planet?
- Inter Press Service
The Government of Kenya and United Nations Partnership to Achieve Universal Health Care Inspires Many in Silicon Valley and the Stanford, U.C. Berkeley Communities
- Inter Press Service
We Must Protect the Future for Palestinian Refugee Girls
- Inter Press Service
Forest Communities Join Forces to Fight Land Degradation in Mexico
- Inter Press Service
Political Dominoes Topple in Ethiopia
- Inter Press Service
Legal Africa-Asia Wildlife Trade Gets a Look in
- Inter Press Service
CAMBRIDGE, UK, Mar 08 (IPS) - Willow Outhwaite is Senior Programme Officer with TRAFFIC, the Wildlife Trade Monitoring Network* In recent years, the focus on wildlife trade between Africa and Asia has been almost exclusively on poaching of iconic mammals and the smuggling of their parts.
Japan-led Pacific Rim Countries Desperate to Embrace Trump
- Inter Press Service
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Mar 08 (IPS) - The grandiose sounding Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) will be signed in Santiago de Chile today, 8 March. Instead of doing something to advance the condition of women on International Women's Day, trade representatives from 11 Pacific rim countries will sign the CPTPP, which some critics argue will further set back the progress of humanity, including women who hold up ‘half the sky'.
Women Miners Stake a Claim in Zimbabwe
- Inter Press Service
HARARE, Mar 08 (IPS) - This article is part of a series of stories and op-eds launched by IPS on the occasion of this year's International Women's Day on March 8.Tapiwa Moyo, 40, religiously leaves her home each day when the first cock crows and joins a throng of women who have taken up artisanal mining in her community.
A ‘Multicultural Jewel’ in Rome: Migrants and Italians Mingle at Esquilino Market
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Mar 08 (IPS) - The Esquilino market, built at the end of the 1800s, is a pillar of Roman traditional daily shopping. It managed to survive the Fascist period and two world wars: it's a veteran of the city.
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