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Opinion: From Despair to Hope: Fulfilling a Promise to Mothers and Children in Mandera County
- Inter Press Service
NAIROBI, Kenya, Nov 09 (IPS) - Mandera in northeastern Kenya, has often been described as "the worst place on earth to give birth." Mandera's maternal mortality ratio stands at 3,795 deaths per 100,000 live births, almost double that of wartime Sierra Leone at 2,000 deaths per 100,000 live births.
School Meals Bolster Family Farming in Brazil
- Inter Press Service
ITABORAÃ, Brazil, Nov 09 (IPS) - "That law should have existed since the end of slavery, which threw slaves into the street without offering them adequate conditions for working and producing, turning them into semi-slaves," said Brazilian farmer Idevan Correa.
Disaster Strikes Pakistan’s Khyber Region, Aid Efforts Slow in Coming
- Inter Press Service
PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Nov 09 (IPS) - Jauhar Shah lost everything. His house came tumbling down while his family was sleeping. He survived but his wife and daughter did not. The October 26 tremor measuring 8.1 Richter scale changed his life forever.
Linking Private & Public Arms for Sustainable Development
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Nov 09 (IPS) - A thriving private sector is an essential precondition to improving income and employment prospects and thus key to achieving sustainable development on the ground and in areas most affected by poverty. In the words of the UN Secretary General, "The United Nations and business need each other. We need your innovation, your initiative, your technological prowess. But business also needs the United Nations. In a very real sense, the work of the United Nations can be viewed as seeking to create the idea enabling environment within which business can thrive."
Parliamentarian Forum to Set New Goals Against Hunger
- Inter Press Service
LIMA, Nov 07 (IPS) - Undertaking the challenge of pushing for new legislation to guarantee food security in their countries, legislators from Latin America and the Caribbean, together with guest lawmakers from Africa and Asia, will hold the Sixth Forum of the Parliamentary Front Against Hunger Oct. 15-17.
Kurdish Highlanders Fear the Sky
- Inter Press Service
QANDIL MOUNTAINS, Iraq, Nov 06 (IPS) - You can find those popular Turkish chocolate and orange biscuits, and there are also shovels for the coming winter snow. There's also no shortage of those popular watches boasting the face of Abdullah Ocalan, the imprisoned leader of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK).
Urgently Needed: Studies Linking Land Degradation, Migration, Conflict and Political Instability
- Inter Press Service
ANKARA, Turkey, Nov 05 (IPS) - Some 135 million people could be displaced by 2045 as a result of land desertification, according to a recent UK ministry of defence report. This figure could rise to 200 million who are displaced by other climate change impacts like natural disasters by 2050, said British environment refugee specialist Norman Myers.
Climate Change Threatens Flavours of Argentine Wine
- Inter Press Service
MENDOZA, Argentina, Nov 05 (IPS) - Purple garlic that is losing its color? More translucent wine? Climate change will also affect the flavours of our food in the absence of measures to mitigate the impacts of global warming, which are already being felt in crops that are basic to local economies, such as in the Argentine province of Mendoza.
Opinion: UN Frontline Staff Consider Options as Pay Cuts Loom
- Inter Press Service
GENEVA, Nov 04 (IPS) - When the world's most powerful ambassadors gathered in New York last week to celebrate the United Nations' 70th anniversary, it would have been undiplomatic to mention the looming crisis facing the UN's proudest achievement - its humanitarian aid programmes.
Open Data - Still Closed to Latin American Communities
- Inter Press Service
MEXICO CITY, Nov 04 (IPS) - Open data policies in Latin America have not yet enabled communities to exercise their right to access to information, consultation and participation with regard to mining or infrastructure projects that affect their surroundings and way of life.
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