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Brazil Holds Key to Door Between Pacific Alliance and Mercosur
- Inter Press Service
RIO DE JANEIRO, Jul 03 (IPS) - The Mercosur and Pacific Alliance blocs can strengthen Latin American integration rather than weaken it, analysts say.
OP-ED: Moving Forward to End Violence Against Women
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jul 03 (IPS) - Last year, as rebels captured the main towns in Northern Mali, UN Women registered a sudden and dramatic increase of rapes in the first week of the takeover of Gao and Kidal, in places where most women never report this violence to anyone, not even health practitioners.
Working to Save Malawi's Mothers
- Inter Press Service
LILONGWE, Jul 03 (IPS) - Charity Salima, 54, has helped to deliver over 4,000 babies in her maternity clinic in Area 23 – one of Malawi's poorest and most populous townships – and has yet to record a single pregnancy-related death.
Egyptian Lawyer and Women’s Rights Advocate Wins RFK Award
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jul 03 (IPS) - A prominent human rights organisation based here announced Tuesday that its annual award for 2013 would go to Ragia Omran, an Egyptian lawyer and women's rights activist.
Brazil Champion – But No Longer the Land of Football
- Inter Press Service
RIO DE JANEIRO, Jul 03 (IPS) - The Brazilian national football team made a glorious comeback with its victory in the FIFA Confederations Cup, but the sport has lost its tight grip on society. While millions celebrated, the tournament was also another source of anger for the protesters that have filled the streets in the last few weeks.
U.S. Court Overturns Key Extractives Transparency Rule
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jul 02 (IPS) - A federal judge here on Tuesday struck down a key new regulatory provision that would require large U.S.-listed extractives companies to disclose payments made to foreign governments, a rule that rights groups had long pushed as a way to cut down on corruption in developing countries.
In the Land of the Gods, Disaster Response Falls Short of Divine
- Inter Press Service
DEHRADUN, India, Jul 02 (IPS) - Over 580 bodies have so far been found. Hundreds more will likely never turn up. Survivors say they are suspended in a kind of nightmare, either haunted by memories of their brush with death or desperate for news of loved ones. At least 3,000 are reported to be missing.
San Francisco Pride Draws Huge Crowd, Critics
- Inter Press Service
SAN FRANCISCO, Jul 02 (IPS) - Sporting wedding gowns, tuxedos, leather, beads, bangles, union t-shirts and Free Bradley Manning buttons – and some wearing just about nothing at all – some 1.5 million people poured into downtown San Francisco Sunday to celebrate lesbian-gay-bisexual-transgender pride.
Snowden Defies White House, Still Caught in Limbo
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jul 02 (IPS) - Late on Monday night, Sarah Harrison, a Wikileaks activist, hand-delivered 21 letters to Kim Shevchenko, the duty officer at the Russian consulate office in Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport, on behalf of Edward Snowden, the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) whistleblower.
Edible Insect Market Hindered by Legal and Cultural Barriers in Spain
- Inter Press Service
MÁLAGA, Spain, Jul 02 (IPS) - A 280-square-metre warehouse in Coín, a municipality in the southern Spanish province of Málaga, is home to a unique type of farm, where insects are raised for human consumption and the production of animal feed. But despite FAO's endorsement of insects as food, there are numerous obstacles holding back the development of this industry.
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