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What’s in Store for 2013
- Inter Press Service
Unemployed Youth Turn to Drugs
- Inter Press Service
FREETOWN, Jan 09 (IPS) - The air is heavy with the smell of marijuana as Gibrilla (23) expertly rolls a large joint at the Members of Blood (M.O.B) gang base in a poor neighbourhood of Sierra Leone's capital, Freetown.
Closing Europe’s Borders Becomes Big Business
- Inter Press Service
ATHENS/WARSAW, Jan 09 (IPS) - The European Union is implementing a new border management system with tougher migration control the core aim. Major security and weapons companies are already reaping the benefits.
U.S. to Take Closer Look at Flood of Corporate Political Spending
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jan 09 (IPS) - Civil society actors and the some corporate groups here are reacting with excitement to indications that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), which regulates the country's stock exchanges, is likely to take up discussion over new rules that would mandate the public disclosure of all political spending by U.S.-listed public corporations.
U.S. Immigration System’s Cost, Reach “Unprecedented”
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jan 08 (IPS) - The United States government is spending more on immigration enforcement each year than it is on all other federal law-enforcement agencies combined, according to the first comprehensive look at how the country's sprawling immigration complex has grown over the past decade.
China's Rising Soybean Consumption Reshaping Western Agriculture
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jan 08 (IPS) - Global demand for soybeans has soared in recent decades, with China leading the race. Nearly 60 percent of all soybeans entering international trade today go to China, making it far and away the world's largest importer.
New Push for U.S. to Ratify Major Women's Treaty
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jan 08 (IPS) - The United States continues to be in the dubious company of six countries that have either refused or are reluctant to ratify the landmark U.N. Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW).
A River Runs Dry in Tanzania
- Inter Press Service
DAR ES SALAAM, Jan 08 (IPS) - Avelina Elias Mkenda, a 52-year-old small-scale farmer in the Mbarali district of Tanzania's southwestern Mbeya region, can sense a change in her environment.
Abandoning Nuclear Weapons – Lessons from South Africa
- Inter Press Service
JOHANNESBURG, Jan 08 (IPS) - Not many nice things can be said about the apartheid regime in South Africa. It was racist, violent in the brutal oppression of many of its own citizens, and was despised around the world.
Executions Elicit Fears of Authoritarianism
- Inter Press Service
TAIPEI, Jan 08 (IPS) - Taiwanese activists and human rights advocates ushered in the New Year with promises to prevent "a return to authoritarianism" and bring justice to the families of prisoners who were executed just before Christmas.
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