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‘Marks of Manhood’ Fuel Gender-Based Violence
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Feb 25 (IPS) - Some of the most harrowing cases of gender-based violence Kathryn Bolkovac came across while working as a U.N. human rights investigator in Bosnia involved a perpetrator dubbed "the Doctor" by the women and girls he abused.
More Dead Than Red
- Inter Press Service
EIN GEDI, Israel, Feb 25 (IPS) - The World Bank has declared the Red Sea-Dead Sea canal project feasible. Designed to "save the Dead Sea", "desalinate water and/or generate hydroelectricity at affordable prices in Jordan, Israel and the Palestinian Authority", and "build a symbol of peace in the Middle East", the scheme, green groups warn, is fraught with environmental hazards.
Power Sharing a “Dangerous Concept” for Kenya’s Democracy
- Inter Press Service
NAIROBI, Feb 25 (IPS) - Days ahead of Kenya's general elections, the country's former deputy Minister of Information Koigi Wamwere has slammed calls for power-sharing among minority ethnic groups in the next government, calling it a "dangerous concept".
The Limits of Media Freedom in Somalia
- Inter Press Service
MOGADISHU, Feb 25 (IPS) - Media advocates in Somalia worry that a recent case against a journalists who exposed the story of a gang rape involving members of the national security forces will serve as a deterrent to journalists countrywide.
Senegal Growing Up Over Marriage
- Inter Press Service
DAKAR, Feb 25 (IPS) - When Abdoulaye Ba heard his local Imam in Dakar, Senegal, speaking out against child marriage, he found that the idea was not very palatable to him. As head of his family, he had intended to marry off his three teenage daughters.
Haitian Senate Calls for Halt to Mining Activities
- Inter Press Service
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Feb 24 (IPS) - Outraged that they have not been consulted, this week Haitian senators called for a moratorium on all activities connected with recently granted gold and copper mining permits.
Winter of Discontent Progresses to Bulgaria
- Inter Press Service
WARSAW, Feb 24 (IPS) - Bulgarian prime minister Boiko Borisov of the ruling centre-right Citizens for the European Development of Bulgaria (GERB), announced his resignation Wednesday, following two weeks of sustained protests across the country which were sparked by rising electricity and heating costs.
Democracy Tastes Bitter as Poverty Bites
- Inter Press Service
CAIRO, Feb 24 (IPS) - On a recent Friday, coppersmith Alaa Moussa parked himself in the same spot where two years earlier he had stood defiantly with a handwritten banner addressed to then president Hosni Mubarak. His petition that cold February morning in 2011 had listed the key demands of Egypt's 18-day uprising: "bread, freedom, dignity".
Open Pit Miners Strike in Colombia
- Inter Press Service
BOGOTA, Feb 23 (IPS) - Two weeks into an indefinite strike called by workers at Cerrejón, one of the largest open-pit coal mines in the world, the company has agreed to sit down again and negotiate with Colombia's National Union of Coal Industry Workers (Sintracarbón).
Q&A: How to Creating a South African Society that Rewards Hard Work
- Inter Press Service
CAPE TOWN, South Africa, Feb 23 (IPS) - In his new book, "The Great African Society – A Plan for a Nation Gone Astray", Hlumelo Biko, the son of late Black Consciousness leader Steve Biko, says that if nothing changes in South Africa, the country will become engulfed by corruption, crime, social decay, hopelessness and anger.
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