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U.S. Ordered to Halt Linking Aid to Anti-Prostitution Oath
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jun 20 (IPS) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday overturned a decade-long practise under which the government linked global HIV/AIDS funding to a controversial requirement that organisations explicitly state their opposition to prostitution.
Cancelling Fare Hike Fails to Quell Brazil Protests
- Inter Press Service
RIO DE JANEIRO, Jun 20 (IPS) - Children of a generation that fought for basic rights like having enough to eat, learning to read and being treated in safer hospitals, the over 300,000 students protesting on the streets of Brazil want more from a democratic and economic system that no longer represents them and is beginning to show its limitations.
Arab Americans Aim at Preserving New York's Little Syria
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Jun 20 (IPS) - A brick red, six-story tenement house, St. George Melkite Church and a community house in desperate need of repair are nearly all that remain of a once thriving Arab-American community in downtown New York City.
Dams Threaten Mekong Basin Food Supply
- Inter Press Service
BANGKOK, Jun 20 (IPS) - The future of food security in the Mekong region lies at a crossroads, as several development ventures, including the Xayaburi Hydropower Project, threaten to alter fish migration routes, disrupt the flow of sediments and nutrients downstream, and endanger millions whose livelihoods depend on the Mekong River basin's resources.
Salvadoran Military List of Victims a Smoking Gun
- Inter Press Service
SAN SALVADOR, Jun 20 (IPS) - The Salvadoran army kept a detailed list of names and photographs of leftists detained or sought during El Salvador's 1980-1992 civil war. The report is the first official military document proving the armed forces' direct involvement in forced disappearances and other abuses.
Q&A: "The Real Target Is Zero Hunger"
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Jun 20 (IPS) - Under the leadership of Brazilian Director General (DG) Jose Graziano da Silva, the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) has been engaged in a process of deep reform meant to make the organisation leaner and more effective in the fight against hunger.
U.N. Urges Turkish Police to Exercise “Restraint”
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jun 20 (IPS) - United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay have advised "maximum restraint" following media reports of a violent police crackdown on peaceful protestors in Istanbul's Gezi Park.
Straightening Out Accounts on Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon
- Inter Press Service
RIO DE JANEIRO, Jun 20 (IPS) - The bold strategy implemented by the Brazilian government has achieved an 84 percent reduction in deforestation in the Amazon rainforest in the last eight years. But when the natural resources and pesticides used in agricultural production are taken into account, the environmental progress made is not so impressive.
Cambodia’s Opposition Fights Back
- Inter Press Service
PHNOM PENH, Jun 20 (IPS) - The violence that defined Cambodia during the years of the Khmer Rouge (1975-1979) may have been relegated to the realm of history, but the actions of the ruling party ahead of the Jul. 28 election smack of the dirty politics that once ruled this Southeast Asian country.
Swiss Doorways to Refugees Narrow
- Inter Press Service
ZURICH, Switzerland, Jun 20 (IPS) - Once more, Swiss voters have lashed out against asylum seekers, further tightening the country's already strict asylum law. The government has meanwhile announced a radical restructuring of the asylum procedure.
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