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Activists in Argentina Expect Landmark Ruling against Agrochemicals
- Inter Press Service
BUENOS AIRES, Aug 17 (IPS) - After more than a decade of campaigning against toxic agrochemicals, a group of women from a poor neighbourhood in the northern Argentine city of Córdoba have brought large-scale soybean growers to trial for the health damages caused by spraying.
Livelihoods Drying Up on Malawi's Lake Chilwa
- Inter Press Service
LAKE CHILWA, Malawi, Aug 17 (IPS) - Fisherfolk and farmers living near Malawi’s second-largest water body, Lake Chilwa, are relocating en masse and scrambling for space around its shores as the lake has dried to dangerously low levels.
School Bullying, a Reflection of Society in Latin America
- Inter Press Service
SANTIAGO, Aug 17 (IPS) - Because “schools reflect what is going on in society,” an analysis of what is behind the high rates of bullying in Latin America is urgently needed, says Marcela Román, an expert on education in the region.
Assange's Limbo in Ecuador's UK Embassy Likely to Drag On
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Aug 17 (IPS) - Two months after he sought refuge in Ecuador's London embassy, WikiLeaks' founder Julian Assange was formally granted asylum by Quito on Thursday.
U.S. Breaks Silence on Bahrain Crackdown
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Aug 17 (IPS) - The U.S. State Department released a statement Friday urging the Bahraini government to reconsider a ruling that sentenced the director of the Bahrain Center for Human Rights, Nabeel Rajab, to a three-year jail term for organising opposition rallies.
Cash Grants Replace Food Aid for Niger Families in Need
- Inter Press Service
TILLABERI, Niger, Aug 17 (IPS) - When her name is called, Rékia Djibo leaves the group of women gathered in front of the school in Toula, and takes a confident step towards the door. Djibo is one of the recipients of a cash transfer from the World Food Programme here on the outskirts of the southwestern Niger city of Tillabéri.
Disputes Arise Over Cambodia’s Killer Illness
- Inter Press Service
PHNOM PENH, Aug 17 (IPS) - The deaths of dozens of Cambodian children in recent months from an initially undiagnosed disease has highlighted the difficult balancing act between informing the public and potentially provoking panic.
No Homecoming Where Taliban Rules
- Inter Press Service
KABUL, Aug 17 (IPS) - Nematullah Wardak from Sayedabad in Maidan Wardak province works in Kabul. For two years he has not returned to his village, a bus journey from the Afghan capital, for fear of the Taliban.
U.N. to Close Syria Observer Mission
- Inter Press Service
DOHA, Aug 16 (IPS) - The United Nations has ordered the end of its observer mission in Syria, and said that it would withdraw its staff within the next few days.
Colombian President Meets with Nasa Indians
- Inter Press Service
PIENDAMÓ, Colombia, Aug 16 (IPS) - Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos travelled to a native reserve in the southwest of the country Wednesday to meet with thousands of indigenous people who had gathered there for nearly a week, demanding an end to fighting in their territory.
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