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Q&A: A Portrait of the Superstars of Celebrity Activism
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Nov 13 (IPS) - Start a global debate about the underlying reasons why poverty exists – and do it through cinema.
Sex Education Is Also a Right
- Inter Press Service
HAVANA, Nov 13 (IPS) - Learning about respect in a relationship, sexual orientation, sexuality, gender equality and family planning forms part of the right to sex education that is still not enjoyed by all children and adolescents in Latin America.
Bolivian Sugar Industry Recovers and Seeks Markets
- Inter Press Service
LA PAZ, Nov 13 (IPS) - Bolivia's sugar mills are once again operating at full capacity, with producers flooding the domestic market and desperate to obtain permits to export a surplus of 138,000 tons to Chile, Colombia, Peru and the United States.
Kurdish Prisoners Hungry for Freedom
- Inter Press Service
DIYARBAKIR, Nov 13 (IPS) - Five MPs from Turkey's main Kurdish political party, the Peace and Democracy Party (BDP), and the Mayor of Diyarbak?r have gone on hunger strike to support a protest by more than 700 Kurdish prison inmates. The prisoners' hunger strike has now lasted 63 days, and spans dozens of prisons across Turkey.
Will Mali's Prime Minister Resign?
- Inter Press Service
BAMAKO, Nov 13 (IPS) - West African heads of state have restated their determination that no member of Mali's transitional government will be allowed to stand in the country's next presidential election. Their statement has fed a growing debate over who should be allowed to run.
Little Hope for an End to Ogaden Conflict
- Inter Press Service
ADDIS ABABA, Nov 13 (IPS) - Many were hoping that recent peace talks between the Ethiopian government and Ogaden rebels would signal an end to the gruelling 18-year-old conflict. The latest round of talks, however, dashed all dreams of peace between the two sides.
Getting an Education – a Heroic Feat for Native Children in Bolivia
- Inter Press Service
MISKHAMAYU, Bolivia, Nov 12 (IPS) - Even before the sun comes up, Reinaldo starts out on the two-hour journey to the school he attends in a small native village in Bolivia, hiking along steep, narrow paths that take him across ravines and rivers.
Slate for U.N. Rights Body Packed with Ringers
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Nov 12 (IPS) - When the former Human Rights Commission was partially dominated by countries accused of political repression, a U.S. congressman ridiculed the U.N. body where, he said, "inmates were taking over the asylum."
Honduran Police Protest Crackdown on Corruption
- Inter Press Service
TEGUCIGALPA, Nov 12 (IPS) - Police officers in Honduras are protesting regulatory measures and aptitude tests implemented as part of reforms aimed at purging the police force of corruption and growing links to organised crime.
Q&A: "They Demanded I Behave. I Decided Not To"
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Nov 12 (IPS) - Khadija Ismayilova has been threatened with blackmail by her own government. She has been branded an "enemy of the state", mainly for her exposés of official corruption.
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