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Filipino Workers Urge Overhaul of U.S. Guest Worker Policies
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK/WASHINGTON, Mar 19 (IPS) - A spate of legal battles in the southern state of Louisiana has shed new light on the unfair recruitment and employment practices of Filipino guest workers at several companies in the United States.
Iraq Once More on the Brink of War
- Inter Press Service
KIRKUK, Iraq, Mar 19 (IPS) - Driving into the city of Kirkuk, one is greeted by the view of a huge sea of grey concrete houses from which laundry has been hung out to dry in the wind and be blackened by smoke rising from the surrounding oil wells.
U.S. Urged to Reject New World Bank Focus on Large Infrastructure
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Mar 19 (IPS) - A group of environmentalists, gender activists and international finance watchdogs are calling on the U.S. government to support calls for the World Bank to step back from a new programmatic focus on large-scale infrastructure, which critics say does little to help alleviate poverty.
Latin American Integration, Post-Chávez
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Mar 19 (IPS) - What is Hugo Chávez's legacy to Latin America? The best way to evaluate a head of state is to examine what is left behind after his or her death. In the case of Chávez, his image is obscured by a series of ideological and cultural prejudices that hide a clear perception of who he was.
Water and Sanitation Seek Rightful Place in Post-2015 Agenda
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 19 (IPS) - When the General Assembly unanimously adopted the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) back in 2000, water and sanitation were reduced to a subtext - never a stand-alone goal compared with poverty and hunger alleviation.
HONDURAS: Activists Protest Lack of Transparency in Extractive Industry
- Inter Press Service
TEGUCIGALPA, Mar 19 (IPS) - The Honduran government's announcement of its plans to join the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) has raised expectations as well as doubts, particularly due to the speed with which it aims to complete a process that has taken several years in other countries of the region.
Q&A "What Matters Isn’t Bergoglio and His Past, but Francis and His Future"
- Inter Press Service
RIO DE JANEIRO, Mar 19 (IPS) - Brazilian theologian Leonardo Boff, a leading exponent of liberation theology, the progressive current in the Latin American Catholic Church, does not believe reports that depict the new Pope Francis as collaborating with Argentina's 1976-1983 dictatorship.
Visions of a Sustainable, Pollution-Free New York by 2030
- Inter Press Service
UXBRIDGE, Canada, Mar 19 (IPS) - As usual, midtown Manhattan is packed with whisper-quiet cars and trams while thousands walk the streets listening to the birds of spring sing amongst the gleaming, grime-free skyscrapers in the crystal-clear morning air.
Past Netanyahu, Obama Looks at Israeli People
- Inter Press Service
JERUSALEM, Mar 19 (IPS) - U.S. President Barack Obama arrives in Israel on Wednesday, his first destination abroad of his second term, to pay a visit to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu whose own second consecutive term will have started only 48 hours beforehand. No wonder that the true purpose of the U.S. President's visit is defined as reaching out to the Israeli people.
World's Poor Pharma
- Inter Press Service
MUMBAI, Mar 19 (IPS) - I recently spent a day in Mumbai with the man who arguably has done more than anyone else in the world to save millions of lives of people with AIDS and other diseases.
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