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OP-ED: Pakistani Taliban's Indoctrinated Child Bombers*
- Inter Press Service
TORONTO, Oct 18 (IPS) - In the late afternoon of Apr. 3, 2011, in the Pakistani city of Dera Ghazi Khan, an annual Sufi Muslim religious festival at the shrine of the 13th century saint Ahmed Sultan was hit by twin suicide bomb attacks which killed over 50 people and left more than 120 wounded.
Shadow Over Aichi Biodiversity Targets
- Inter Press Service
, Oct 18 (IPS) - With negotiations to mobilise resources for preservation of biodiversity at a major United Nations conference going nowhere, the Group of 77 and China have hinted at possible suspension of the ‘Aichi targets’ under the Nagoya Protocol.
Politics of War Crimes Trials Under Spotlight
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Oct 18 (IPS) - Ten years after the International Criminal Court (ICC) opened its doors in The Hague, the United Nations Security Council held its first open discussion on the role of the court, with some nations reiterating complaints that its docket is highly politicised and has unfairly singled out African nations for censure.
Agricultural Waste Boosts Energy Production in Argentina
- Inter Press Service
BUENOS AIRES, Oct 18 (IPS) - A joint project by the energy and agriculture authorities in Argentina is seeking to boost electricity generation from forestry waste and other rural products which have enormous potential, according to experts.
Senegal Finds the Cooperative Way to More Food
- Inter Press Service
DAKAR, Oct 18 (IPS) - Over the past two years, millet production has reached record levels in Dya, a rural community in the Kaolack region of central Senegal, where the Agricultural Value Chains Support Project (PAFA) is supporting two farmers' collectives.
Internet Becomes Newest Victim of Repression in Kashmir
- Inter Press Service
SRINAGAR, Oct 18 (IPS) - Fayaz Ahmad’s Faim Internet Café in the Sopore township of Indian Kashmir was booming until a year ago, when police entered his premises without warning and seized all his computers.
Three Years of Peace But No Sign of Prosperity
- Inter Press Service
VAVUNIYA, Sri Lanka, Oct 18 (IPS) - Mamaduwa, a remote village in Sri Lanka’s northern Vavuniya district where scorching winds blow across parched earth, is trying to forget the past.
Some Women’s Groups Say Uruguay’s New Abortion Law Falls Short
- Inter Press Service
MONTEVIDEO, Oct 18 (IPS) - The Uruguayan Congress passed a law Wednesday decriminalising abortion, making it the second country in Latin America where abortion is legal in cases other than rape, incest, malformation of the fetus or danger to the mother’s life.
But activists who backed the bill are not pleased with the modifications introduced in the final version.
India to Conserve Biodiversity at Grassroots
- Inter Press Service
HYDERABAD, India, Oct 17 (IPS) - India’s National Biodiversity Authority (NBA) is actively promoting decentralised grassroots livelihoods as the best way to conserve biodiversity as mandated by the Nagoya Protocol on access and benefit sharing (ABS).
In TB Fight, It's 'Pay Now or Pay Later'
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Oct 17 (IPS) - The next several years could see either the elimination of tuberculosis in some regions or millions of otherwise preventable deaths, according to new research released in Washington Wednesday by the World health Organisation (WHO).
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