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Most Inhumane of Weapons
- Inter Press Service
TOKYO, Feb 21 (IPS) - I believe that most of the world's citizens would agree that nuclear weapons should be considered inhumane. It is encouraging to see that there is now a growing, if still nascent, movement to outlaw nuclear weapons based on this premise.
Controversy Erupts Over “Corporate Carnival”
- Inter Press Service
RIO DE JANEIRO, Feb 21 (IPS) - A transnational pesticides manufacturer is sponsoring the Vila Isabel samba school, which won the main contest in Rio de Janeiro's carnival this year, raising questions about financing mechanisms for "the greatest show on earth", as carnival is described in Brazil.
Major Evaluation Urges Devolution of U.S. AIDS Programme
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Feb 21 (IPS) - A major audit of the United States' flagship global anti-HIV/AIDS programme, prepared for the U.S. Congress, notes "remarkable progress" over the past decade. However, it is also warning of insufficient monitoring and urging a stepped-up process of handing over greater control to partner countries.
Q&A: Building a Post-2015 Global Development Agenda
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Feb 20 (IPS) - As the 2015 deadline for the Millennium Development Goals approaches, different United Nations agencies are beginning to discuss what the post-2015 Development Agenda will encompass.
In Conservatives' Canada, It's Not Easy Being Green
- Inter Press Service
UXBRIDGE, Canada, Feb 20 (IPS) - Canada's police and security agencies think citizens concerned about the environment are threats to national security, and some are under surveillance, documents reveal.
Saving Heat from Going Down the Drain
- Inter Press Service
BERLIN, Feb 20 (IPS) - Whenever hot water from the kitchen tap or the bathroom shower goes down the plughole, a substantial amount of heat energy goes with it. In some German buildings this is being recovered and used to heat buildings in the winter and run air conditioning systems in the summer, representing a real energy-saver.
Israel Not Pushing Obama to Arm Syrian Rebels
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Feb 20 (IPS) - A lack of Israeli pressure for the U.S. to intervene and Israel's ability to go after sensitive targets in Syria on its own are factors in the Barack Obama administration's reluctance to get more deeply involved in the Syrian civil war.
The Crime of Slavery
- Inter Press Service
LIVERPOOL, Feb 20 (IPS) - That Liverpool was once the uncontested centre of the world slave trade, accounting for 40 percent, is well documented in the International Slavery Museum in the port where slave ships.
Golf Plays Against Local Democracy
- Inter Press Service
BELGRADE, Feb 20 (IPS) - More than 10,000 people living in the coastal Adriatic town Dubrovnik have done what many others in the region could never. They are holding a referendum on a controversial development project that they believe endangers their city.
Timbuktu Reclaims Its Treasures
- Inter Press Service
PARIS, Feb 20 (IPS) - Despite uncertainty and the ongoing conflict, Mali will work to rebuild and safeguard its cultural heritage, says the West African country's minister of culture Bruno Maïga.
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