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Religious Intolerance Taints Award for Indonesian President
- Inter Press Service
JAKARTA/NEW YORK, May 31 (IPS) - Standing in front of the two-metre concrete wall, barbed wire and corrugated iron fence that surrounds his mosque, Muhammad Iqbal says he feels like a second-class citizen in his own country.
OP-ED: Iranian Elections: Not About Us
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, May 31 (IPS) - For Washington, obsessed with matters Iranian, it may be hard to accept a simple fact: Iran's Jun. 14 presidential election is an Iranian event. If we attempt to make it about us, we will find ourselves on the same road that has previously led to multiple failures: Iran-contra; "goodwill begets goodwill"; and a non-existent two-track policy.
Peak Water, Peak Oil…Now, Peak Soil?
- Inter Press Service
REYKJAVÍK, Iceland, May 31 (IPS) - Soil is becoming endangered.This reality needs to be part of our collective awareness in order to feed nine billion people by 2050, say experts meeting here in Reykjavík.
U.S. Hungry Face Major Cuts in Food Aid
- Inter Press Service
ATLANTA, Georgia, May 31 (IPS) - The U.S. Congress is on the brink of making billions of dollars in cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Programme (SNAP), commonly known as food stamps, which provides direct benefits to individuals and families in poverty.
Mexico’s Desaparecidos: Unspoken, Unseen, Unknown
- Inter Press Service
MEXICO CITY, May 31 (IPS) - The last time Enrique Rangel heard his brother Héctor's voice was on the night of Nov. 10, 2009, when he called and said "they're coming, they already stopped me and asked for money, and I already paid, but they're coming."
OP-ED: Incessant Killing of Elephants is Killing Africa’s Future
- Inter Press Service
BONN, May 31 (IPS) - More civil unrest in Africa, another coup d'état, more reports of child soldiers in the front line, involvement of foreign troops, the poorest of the poor losing what little they have – and all the while the proceeds of a country's wealth are diverted from much-needed social and economic development to financing death and destruction.
Warlords and Vague Constitution to Blame for Renegade Somali State
- Inter Press Service
MOGADISHU, May 31 (IPS) - Attempts by clan elders and militia commanders in southern Somalia to form an autonomous state, without the consent of the central government but with the apparent backing of foreign countries, remains a dangerous, destabilising element in the region, say analysts.
Sex Educators Struggle to Break Taboos
- Inter Press Service
KUALA LUMPUR, May 31 (IPS) - Liberian journalist Mae Azango says she spent a year living "like a bat, going from tree to tree" with her daughter in order to escape religious fanatics who were threatening to kill her for exposing the practice of female genital mutilation in her home country last year.
U.N. Panel Projects a Poverty-Free World by 2030
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, May 31 (IPS) - A U.N.-commissioned high-level panel of eminent persons, led by three world leaders, has moved the goal posts for the eradication of extreme poverty and hunger: from the current 2015 deadline to a new targeted date of 2030.
Afghan Media Brace for Financial Drought
- Inter Press Service
KABUL, May 31 (IPS) - As Afghanistan prepares for the 2014 withdrawal of foreign forces that have occupied this country for over a decade, investors are already beginning to bid a hasty retreat amid rumours that "chaos" and civil war will replace NATO's boots on the ground late next year.
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