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Time to Democratise Justice in Argentina
- Inter Press Service
BUENOS AIRES, Mar 13 (IPS) - In search of a more transparent and agile justice system that is less authoritarian and bureaucratic, judges, prosecutors, defence lawyers and legal experts in Argentina are pressing for reforms to modernise the judicial branch and make it more democratic.
Drought Hits Policies
- Inter Press Service
GENEVA, Mar 13 (IPS) - Drought has dramatically increased as a consequence of climate change. Most countries react to it only after it has occurred, but don't have national policies to prevent it. The high-level meeting on national drought policies in Geneva this week is trying to match scientific knowledge with political awareness.
Rights Crushed in Italy's Overcrowded Prisons
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Mar 13 (IPS) - When Claudio was detained in a prison in the northeastern Italian city of Vicenza, he had to share a 7.6 square-metre cell with two other people. "Once you excluded the space taken up by beds and drawers, each inmate was left with 90 centimetres to himself. We had to take it in turns to stand up," he told IPS.
War Over, Now to Secure Peace
- Inter Press Service
OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso, Mar 13 (IPS) - As the Malian army and its foreign partners are slowly securing northern cities in the West African nation, it is still unclear how the country will turn its back on the political crisis that led to the March 2012 military coup.
U.S. Intelligence Sees Cyber Threats Eclipsing Terrorism
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Mar 13 (IPS) - Cyber threats appear to have largely replaced terrorism as posing the greatest risks to U.S. national security, which also confronts major longer-term challenges from the effects of natural resource shortages and climate change, according to the latest in a series of annual threat assessments by the U.S. intelligence community.
Civil Society Wants Bigger Role in Green Climate Fund Planning
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Mar 12 (IPS) - As the new board of the United Nations Green Climate Fund meets in Berlin this week, activist and watchdog groups here and around the world are expressing frustration over proposed rules they say are already significantly limiting civil society participation in the new initiative.
From Brazil’s Family Farm to the School Lunchroom Table
- Inter Press Service
PARACAMBÍ, Brazil, Mar 12 (IPS) - Separating Maria Gomes Morais' farm and a school in Rio de Janeiro are fields, hills and dirt roads that are impassable when it rains. But a school meal programme has forged a path linking the fresh produce harvested by small farmers like her with the need to provide nourishment to 45 million schoolchildren around Brazil.
Public Pays for Fukushima While Nuclear Industry Profits
- Inter Press Service
UXBRIDGE, Canada, Mar 12 (IPS) - Two years after Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, the country faces 100 to 250 billion dollars in cleanup and compensation costs, tens of thousands of displaced people and widespread impacts of radiation.
Brazilian-Made Plastic Solar Panels, a Clean Energy Breakthrough
- Inter Press Service
PORTO ALEGRE, Brazil, Mar 12 (IPS) - As part of the country's growing emphasis on green tech research, Brazilian scientists have developed plastic solar panels that could revolutionise power generation from this clean, renewable energy source.
No Surprise in Malvinas/Falklands Referendum
- Inter Press Service
BUENOS AIRES, Mar 12 (IPS) - The people of the Malvinas/Falkland islands voted overwhelmingly in a referendum to keep British rule, while Argentina has stepped up its claims to sovereignty over the South Atlantic archipelago located 450 km east of the South American nation.
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