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Q&A: “Women's Participation in Peace Processes Is Still Very Small”
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Sep 21 (IPS) - Friday is not just any day – it's the International Day of Peace. Concerts, debates and moments of silence will be held all over the planet to commemorate the ideal of global truce and tolerance.
Mexico, Also a Haven for Illegal Fishing
- Inter Press Service
MEXICO CITY, Sep 21 (IPS) - The authorities in Mexico seem to have thrown in the towel in the fight against illegal fishing, which is hurting fisheries, the environment, and incomes.
/UPDATE*/ Uganda Oils Sales to China
- Inter Press Service
KAMPALA, Sep 21 (IPS) - Almost a decade since Uganda initiated negotiations with China for the favourable export of coffee beans to the Asian giant, it is struggling to create even trade relations with the world's second-biggest economy. But economic experts predict that the East African nation could close the gap through the promotion of agriculture and the eventual export of oil.
Saving Libya From its Saviours
- Inter Press Service
TRIPOLI, Sep 21 (IPS) - The dark rain clouds and circling military helicopter accentuated the mood of the small, sombre crowd gathered in Tripoli’s Martyr’s Square to commemorate Libya’s dead heroes.
Second Chance For an African Green Revolution
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Sep 21 (IPS) - As the world searches desperately for ways to boost food production by at least 70 percent by 2050 to feed an increasingly hungry planet, many are looking to Africa as the place where a large part of this potential can be realised, mainly for its huge portion of arable land.
Involuntary Sterilisation Threatens Rights of Disabled Women
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Sep 21 (IPS) - In 1996, Maria Mamerita Mestanza Chavez, a 33-year-old Peruvian mother of seven, was threatened with imprisonment if she did not comply with the government policy of undergoing sterilisation. After suffering post-operative complications for which she was refused treatment, Chavez died nine days later.
U.N. Report Chastises U.S. for Status of Native Population
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Sep 21 (IPS) - A top United Nations official has presented the first ever international investigation into the situation of indigenous peoples in the United States, urging the adoption of new policies and mechanisms to “address persistent deep-seeded problems related to historical wrongs, failed policies of the past and continuing systemic barriers”.
Human Rights Education Shows Its Potential
- Inter Press Service
GENEVA, Sep 20 (IPS) - The impact of human rights education, a rising star, is highlighted in a short documentary sponsored by United Nations experts and civil society.
As Aid Shrinks, U.N.’s Development Goals Under Threat
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Sep 20 (IPS) - If the developing world fails to meet the targets set in the eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) – relating mostly to poverty, hunger, education, health care, gender empowerment and the environment – the primary blame for the failure would be on Western donors who have reneged on their aid commitments, according to a new report released here.
OP-ED: Arab Democracies and the West
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Sep 20 (IPS) - Anti-Western protests across the Arab Islamic world denouncing the anti-Islam video, reportedly produced in the United States, is a serious test for the new democratic governments in Egypt, Tunisia, Libya, Yemen, and elsewhere.
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