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EU Calls for New Plans Past the MDGs
- Inter Press Service
BRUSSELS, Apr 10 (IPS) - The European Commission has unveiled a blueprint for global development aid and called on world leaders to replace the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) with an international aid framework based on sustainable and inclusive development tackling poverty at its roots.
Youth Find a Future in Food Production
- Inter Press Service
MUNDA, Solomon Islands, Apr 10 (IPS) - With little more than a bush knife and an axe between them, a group of young boys between the ages of nine and 18 years have taken food security into their own hands. In Kindu, a community of 5,000 people in the coastal urban area of Munda in the Solomon Islands, these boys, who have been abandoned by their parents, have transformed their lives by establishing a cooperatively run farm.
Militarised Island Seeks Makeover
- Inter Press Service
GINOWAN, Japan, Apr 10 (IPS) - The island of Okinawa has long been known as the base camp for a majority of the United States' 50,000 troops in Japan. But now, against the backdrop of escalating nuclear threats from North Korea, local leaders are pushing hard to promote this island – the largest of 60 that comprise Japan's southern prefecture – and its surrounding islets as a lucrative site for commercial enterprises.
Access to Sanitation Still a Luxury for the Very Few
- Inter Press Service
NIAMEY, Apr 10 (IPS) - About 20 communities in Tillabéri, west Niger, have been declared open defecation-free zones as across the country, very few people have access to proper sanitation.
Winter Athletes Call for Action on Climate Change
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Apr 10 (IPS) - After another winter of erratic and disappointing snowfall, 75 of the U.S.'s top professional winter athletes are calling on President Barack Obama to take stronger measures to curb climate change.
Ecuador Seeks to Reform Inter-American Rights Commission
- Inter Press Service
QUITO, Apr 09 (IPS) - Ecuador's attempt to introduce institutional changes in the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights has been frustrated for now. Quito is seeking allies to create parallel regional mechanisms, but the risks of losing at this game are high, according to experts and users of the regional justice system.
U.S. Proposal Would Cut Military Powers on Rape Cases
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Apr 09 (IPS) - The new U.S. secretary of defence, Chuck Hagel, pushed Monday for reforms of the armed forces' judicial code that would roll back an archaic provision allowing high-ranking commanders to overturn military court verdicts, a move that would particularly impact on cases involving sexual assaults.
U.S. Global Health Cuts Threaten Gains on Lethal Diseases
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Apr 09 (IPS) - A U.S.-based civil society coalition is calling on Congress and President Barack Obama's administration to keep spending on global health aid at current levels, warning that recent budget cuts risk a dangerous backslide in health and development gains achieved over the past three decades.
Neruda’s Death Helps Tear Veil Off Chilean Dictatorship
- Inter Press Service
SANTIAGO, Apr 09 (IPS) - The investigation in Chile of the possibility that Nobel Prize-winning poet Pablo Neruda was murdered by the 1973-1990 dictatorship is seen as a major stride forward in the search for truth and justice for human rights crimes that remain unpunished 40 years after the coup d'etat.
OP-ED: Morsi, the Muslim Brotherhood and Democracy: A Sputtering Start
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Apr 09 (IPS) - The governing programme of Egyptian President Muhammad Morsi and his Muslim Brotherhood has been disappointing. His commitment to genuine democracy has been faltering, and his efforts at inclusion and political tolerance have been wanting.
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