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Colombia’s Peace Process Sans Chávez
- Inter Press Service
BOGOTA, Mar 15 (IPS) - Late Venezuelan leader Hugo Chávez played a key role in the current attempt to negotiate peace in Colombia. Along with Cuban President Raúl Castro, he confidentially urged the FARC guerrillas to agree to Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos's secret proposal for peace talks.
Sugar Playing Catch-Up With Spice
- Inter Press Service
KAMPOT, Cambodia, Mar 15 (IPS) - Dotted with rice fields flanked by palm trees, Cambodia's southeastern province of Kampong Speu is nothing short of picturesque.
But behind the idyllic exterior is an on-going struggle to turn this region's natural beauty into a global attraction and improve the lot of poor local farmers, as the neighbouring beachside Kampot province did just three years ago.
Transparency Could Tighten Drought Policy
- Inter Press Service
GENEVA, Mar 15 (IPS) - Scientists gathered in Geneva for the first High-level Meeting on National Drought Policy (HMNDP) in over 30 years have identified data collection and sharing as some of the main challenges to effective prevention of drought. Clear goals and strong political will are vital to building policies at the national level, they say.
Voting Will Change the Lives of Zimbabwe’s Women
- Inter Press Service
MOUNT DARWIN, Zimbabwe, Mar 15 (IPS) - "Ten reasons why women must vote ‘Yes' for the draft constitution…" says the Constitution Select Committee's campaign radio jingle that plays over the airwaves in a grocer's store at Mukumbura border post business centre on Zimbabwe's northeastern border with Mozambique.
Local Communities Forced to Pay Salaries of DRC Army and Rebels
- Inter Press Service
GOMA, Mar 15 (IPS) - On the way to his fields, Denise Mambo, a resident of Kitshanga, North Kivu in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, stops at a rope laid across his path.
Hints of Changes to Come at Vatican
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Mar 15 (IPS) - No one would expect a Pope elected by an extremely conservative conclave to implement revolutionary reforms within the Catholic Church. Still, many see in the newly elected Pope Francis some signs of change.
Latin American Breeze to Sweep Vatican
- Inter Press Service
BUENOS AIRES, Mar 14 (IPS) - The selection of a Latin American pope, who is known for his austere lifestyle and his work with the poor, has created a stir among Catholics in the region, who are confident that Pope Francis will help bolster the Vatican's tarnished reputation.
Peace Laureate Obama Urged to Back Arms Trade Treaty
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Mar 14 (IPS) - Eighteen Nobel Peace Prize recipients called Thursday for President Barack Obama to take a leadership role in supporting a "historic" internationally binding agreement that would regulate the global arms trade, including instituting a strict ban on arms sales to states involved in egregious human rights abuses.
Q&A: Rise of South "Unprecedented in Speed and Scale"
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 14 (IPS) - The world's 132 developing nations, largely part of the global South, are ascending at a pace "unprecedented in its speed and scale", according to the latest Human Development Report (HDR) released Thursday by the U.N. Development Programme (UNDP).
Trinidad Pressured to Drop Mandatory Hanging
- Inter Press Service
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, Mar 14 (IPS) - Ruth Dreifuss, the former Swiss president and chancellor of the University for Peace, may never have heard of Dennis Ramjattan, and vice versa, although they occupy opposite sides of a longstanding debate in this twin-island state.
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