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Less Than Half of International Foreign Aid Is Transparent
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Oct 02 (IPS) - As a major international deadline on foreign assistance transparency draws closer, a new index shows that while donors are becoming more open with their data, still less than half of foreign aid information is openly available.
Q&A: UN Urges Men to Join Call to Action to End Violence against Women
- Inter Press Service
HAVANA, Oct 02 (IPS) - “We have to expand the sense of urgency and indignation towards gender violence,” Dr. Ana Güezmes, UN-Women regional director for Mexico, Central America, Cuba and the Dominican Republic, told IPS on a recent visit to the Cuban capital.
Ocean Acidification Leaves Mollusks Naked and Confused
- Inter Press Service
, Oct 02 (IPS) - Climate change will ruin Chilean sea snails' ability to sniff out and avoid their archenemy, a predatory crab, according to Chilean scientists who presented their findings at an international science symposium here.
Task Force to Kick Start Cairo Population Goals
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Oct 02 (IPS) - Gathered at the Ford Foundation in New York Monday, international luminaries, family planning experts and women's rights activists repeatedly expressed a common sentiment: “I cannot believe that we are still having this discussion today."
Haiti's Two-Million-Dollar Ghost Town
- Inter Press Service
ZORANJE, Haiti, Oct 02 (IPS) - Just months after the Jan. 12, 2010, earthquake killed over 200,000 Haitians and drove another 1.3 million into squalid camps, the Building Back Better Communities (BBBC) project got the green light from the Interim Haiti Reconstruction Commission (IHRC), headed by former U.S. president Bill Clinton and then-Haitian prime minister Jean Max Bellerive.
HAITI: Housing Exposition Exposes Waste, Cynicism
- Inter Press Service
ZORANJE, Haiti, Oct 02 (IPS) - The smells and scenes that greet a visitor to this eerily empty collection of over 60 brightly painted homes and buildings verge on the obscene.
India Divided Over Green Light to Multinational Retailers
- Inter Press Service
KOLKATA/NEW DELHI, Oct 02 (IPS) - Thousands of shopkeepers in Sir Stuart Hogg Market in Kolkata, the business hub of eastern India’s biggest city, are all talking about one thing: what they will do when multinational companies invade their ancient marketplace.
Self-Financing that Works for the Poor
- Inter Press Service
CARACAS, Oct 02 (IPS) - "We were used to losing, so a group of us said to ourselves: let's lose something here," said Carmen Caravallo, describing the start of a "bankomunal", a self-managed microfinance fund based on investment, in her rural community in eastern Venezuela.
Concrete Jungles Growing in Senegal
- Inter Press Service
DAKAR, Oct 02 (IPS) - In the midst of the building frenzy in Senegal, the construction of buildings that cost less than 60,000 dollars, and thus do not require a building permit, is going unchecked by authorities, resulting in the haphazard and unsafe construction of a majority of homes.
For Development, Jobs May Outweigh Growth, World Bank Says
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Oct 01 (IPS) - The World Bank warned Monday that over the next decade and a half, the world will need to create 600 million new jobs, particularly in Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa, just to maintain current employment rates.
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