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Rural Women in Peru Cope “Where Life Is Very Sad”
- Inter Press Service
LIMA, Oct 12 (IPS) - When the crops in her rural highlands community in southern Peru were covered with a thick layer of ice one night, Felícitas Quispe, 43, organised her neighbours to make an effort to keep people from starving to death.
Cooperatives Summit Celebrates Power in Diversity
- Inter Press Service
QUEBEC CITY, Canada, Oct 12 (IPS) - The migratory seeds of cooperatives were sown and first thrived in Europe, but have since adapted to the climate of nations worldwide.
India Ignoring Coastal Biodiversity - NGOs
- Inter Press Service
HYDERABAD, India, Oct 12 (IPS) - Indian civil society organisations see in the 11th United Nations Conference of the Parties (COP11) to the Convention on Biodiversity (CBD), underway in this south Indian city, a rare opportunity to highlight alleged neglect of biodiversity along the country’s extensive coastal and marine areas.
Israel Gives U.S. Election Company
- Inter Press Service
JERUSALEM, Oct 12 (IPS) - The timing of Benjamin Netanyahu’s call for early elections is no coincidence. The incumbent Prime Minister’s strategy is to receive the Israeli public’s renewed confidence as a new U.S. president takes office, thus making himself immune to U.S. pressure as the debate on how to deal with Iran’s nuclear programme enters a critical phase.
Girls Determined to Fight Guns With Books
- Inter Press Service
PESHAWAR, Oct 12 (IPS) - Shazia Begum, one of three girls injured in the attack on the Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai says the Taliban had sought to silence a very influential schoolgirl.
U.S.: Pushback Against Growing Islamophobia
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Oct 12 (IPS) - Faced with a rise in anti-Muslim sentiment and a well-funded campaign to promote Islamophobia, a coalition of faith and religious freedom groups Thursday said it will circulate a new pamphlet on frequently asked questions (FAQs) about Islam and U.S. Muslims to elected officials across the United States.
Groups Rewarded in Their Fight for Fair Food
- Inter Press Service
, Oct 12 (IPS) - The Korean Women's Peasant Association won the 2012 Food Sovereignty Prize for its efforts on behalf of the survival of small-scale and ecologically sustainable farming in South Korea.
Progress in Reducing Hunger 'Tragically Slow'
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Oct 12 (IPS) - WASHINGTON, October 11, 2012 (IPS) – At least 20 countries are currently at either "alarming" or "extremely alarming" levels of hunger, according to new research released here on Thursday.
Report Accuses China of Mass Forced Evictions
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Oct 12 (IPS) - Wang Jiazheng's family was sleeping at home when the bulldozers, along with security officers, entered their village at dawn.
Oil Industry Moves to Block New U.S. Transparency Rules
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Oct 11 (IPS) - Lobby groups representing the oil industry filed a lawsuit in Washington court on Wednesday that seeks to halt the implementation of a new set of rules requiring U.S.-registered extractives companies to disclose all payments made to foreign governments.
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