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Papua New Guinea Casts Wide Net Against Malaria
- Inter Press Service
PORT MORESBY, Jul 26 (IPS) - In Papua New Guinea, a Pacific Island nation located south of the equator, 90 percent of the population is at risk of malaria and 1.9 million cases are reported every year. But, according to a recent medical study, a programme to distribute long-lasting insecticide treated mosquito nets to every district in the country has dramatically reduced malaria infections.
Bolivia’s Indigenous Women Seek the Political Kingdom
- Inter Press Service
COCHABAMBA, Bolivia, Jul 26 (IPS) - A growing number of Bolivia's indigenous women are participating in politics, ready to break the barriers of gender and ethnicity.
When a Moral Duty to Halt Atrocities Runs into Realpolitik
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jul 26 (IPS) - Against the backdrop of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, a panel of United States government officials and experts called for stronger methods to prevent modern-day genocides and mass atrocities, particularly in the case of Syria.
Arms Trade Treaty Called a "Leaky Bucket"
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jul 26 (IPS) - As heated negotiations on a global Arms Trade Treaty near their close Friday at United Nations headquarters in New York, members of civil society as well as some U.N. member states are highly disappointed by what they call the draft text's numerous loopholes.
Bolivia’s Indigenous Women Seek the Political Kingdom
- Inter Press Service
COCHABAMBA, Bolivia, Jul 26 (IPS) - A growing number of Bolivia’s indigenous women are participating in politics, ready to break the barriers of gender and ethnicity.
Papua New Guinea Casts Wide Net Against Malaria
- Inter Press Service
PORT MORESBY, Jul 26 (IPS) - In Papua New Guinea, a Pacific Island nation located south of the equator, 90 percent of the population is at risk of malaria and 1.9 million cases are reported every year. But, according to a recent medical study, a programme to distribute long-lasting insecticide treated mosquito nets to every district in the country has dramatically reduced malaria infections.
Climate Change and Poverty, a Deadly Cocktail for Dominicans
- Inter Press Service
SANTO DOMINGO, Jul 26 (IPS) - "Nobody mourns the poor, you know." That is the grim conclusion of a resident of La Ciénaga, one of the many poverty-stricken settlements clustered along the banks of the Ozama River in the Dominican capital, and which are at the mercy of the weather.
Silenced by U.S., Sex Workers Speak from Kolkata
- Inter Press Service
KOLKATA, Jul 26 (IPS) - Bare-chested and beaming in the company of many like him, London-based male sex worker Thierry Schaffauser wipes the beads of sweat trickling down his face on a humid Kolkata evening, and slams U.S. President Barack Obama.
Security Gaps Fuel Cote d'Ivoire Prison Escapes
- Inter Press Service
ABIDJAN, Jul 26 (IPS) - Eliane Negui knew just what to do when she got word that a group of inmates had escaped from Abidjan’s main prison, MACA, earlier this month. After all, the 24-year-old, who has lived across a dirt road from the facility for nine years, had witnessed the same scenario just two months before.
In the Pursuit of Education: Burkina Faso’s School for Shepherds
- Inter Press Service
OUAGADOUGOU, Jul 26 (IPS) - Salou Bandé is proud to stand at the front of the only classroom in the village of Bénnogo, 90 kilometres north of the Burkina Faso capital, Ouagadougou, sharing his knowledge with his students. He is part of an initiative to improve education for nomadic children in the West African country.
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