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Kenya’s Mothers Shun Free Maternity Health Care
- Inter Press Service
NAIROBI, Jul 09 (IPS) - It has been a month since the Kenyan government waived the maternity fee at public health facilities, but Millicent Awino is still one of the many expectant mothers in favour of a home birth.
U.S. Has “Largely Failed” to Protect Marine Species
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jul 09 (IPS) - Environmentalists on Monday filed a petition with the U.S. government requesting regulatory safeguards for 81 particularly vulnerable marine wildlife species, from corals to sharks.
Needed in Brazil: Integrated Urban Transport System
- Inter Press Service
RIO DE JANEIRO, Jul 09 (IPS) - Bus lanes, cycle paths and pedestrian walkways are viable solutions to the transport collapse in Brazil's big cities. But economic interests, red tape and the lack of strategies for an integrated system are delaying a process that the protests raging across the country for the last few weeks have made an urgent issue.
Over a Barrel, Caribbean Seeks Finance for Clean Energy
- Inter Press Service
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, Jul 08 (IPS) - When James Husbands, a 24-year-old Barbadian businessman, began weighing the possibility of manufacturing solar water heaters, there was already a prototype on the island that had been designed and installed by an Anglican priest living there in the early 1970s.
Venezuela and Dominican Republic Come Calling at CARICOM
- Inter Press Service
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, Jul 08 (IPS) - The Dominican Republic first expressed interest in joining the 15-member Caribbean integration grouping CARICOM in 1989. Now, 14 years later, the Spanish-speaking country with a population of nearly 10 million may finally get its wish.
Europe’s Youth Count Ten Times Less than Its Banks
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Jul 08 (IPS) - At the last summit of European heads of state held in Brussels at the end of June, the main theme was youth unemployment, which has now reached 23 percent of European youth (although it stands at 41 percent in Spain).
OP-ED: Islam Is Not the Solution to What Ails the Middle East
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jul 08 (IPS) - During the decades when Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood was a barely tolerated opposition party, it campaigned against the reigning secular autocrats under the banner "Islam is the solution."
Israel May Even Miss Morsi
- Inter Press Service
JERUSALEM, Jul 08 (IPS) - For Israel, what must be exercised in the volatile struggle for power and democracy in Egypt are, above everything else, three follow-on principles: stability within its institutions, particularly the armed forces; security in the Sinai Peninsula and the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip, which both border Israel; and peace with Israel itself.
Civil Society Fears Taliban Return
- Inter Press Service
JALALABAD, Afghanistan, Jul 08 (IPS) - While United States President Barack Obama and Afghan leader Hamid Karzai scramble to solidify a peace process ahead of the 2014 withdrawal of NATO troops from Afghanistan, fears that the Taliban will use the drawdown to seize power hang like a dark cloud over civil society.
The Classrooms Are Full – but the Students Can’t Read
- Inter Press Service
SYDNEY, Jul 07 (IPS) - Many Pacific Island nations are celebrating the success of rising school enrolment rates, with 14 members of the 16-member Pacific Island Forum on target to meet Millennium Development Goal 2: achieving universal primary education by 2015.
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