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Anti-Terror Laws Stalk Turkish Students
- Inter Press Service
ISTANBUL, Jul 17 (IPS) - Ahmet Saymadi slumps into a cafe, gives a limp handshake to some friends, and then stops at a computer to do some work. When he finally pauses for a tea break, he pushes a CD across the table, which contains the names of all 768 student activists currently imprisoned in Turkey’s jails.
East Africa’s Financial Integration Slow off the Starting Blocks
- Inter Press Service
NAIROBI, Jul 17 (IPS) - For months now East Africans have been expectantly waiting for an economic revolution to begin as they anticipate the launch of a new standardised payment system that will integrate the electronic transfer of money in the region. But continued delays in the launch of the system have economists fearing that the weak financial infrastructure here is hindering its implementation.
Death Stalks Pregnant Women in East Myanmar
- Inter Press Service
MAE SOT, Thailand, Jul 17 (IPS) - From a wooden, weather-beaten building on the edge of this border town, Mahn Mahn charts dangerous missions deep Myanmar (also Burma) for the 2,000-odd health workers under his wing.
Organized Crime Earns $870 Billion Annually, UNODC Warns
- Inter Press Service
, Jul 17 (IPS) - UNITED NATIONS July 16 2012 (IPS) – “Transnational Organized Crime: Let's put them out of business,” is the new campaign by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) aimed at raising global awareness of the size and cost of this illicit network.
Preparations for Quadrennial Review Underline Broad Support for "Delivering as One"
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jul 17 (IPS) - Efforts to ensure the UN's continued relevance in global development took centre stage on Monday, as executive heads of UN funds and programmes, including UNDP, UNICEF, UN-Women, WFP, UNOPS, UNFPA and ESCAP assembled in the ECOSOC Chamber to reviewed successes and challenges in integrating development missions across a plethora of UN agencies.
Poverty Drives Child Labour
- Inter Press Service
PORT MORESBY, Jul 17 (IPS) - In an informal settlement of 10,000 people on the outskirts of Papua New Guinea’s capital, Port Moresby, Tembari Children’s Care – a new grassroots initiative – is providing protection, food and education to orphans and abandoned children who would otherwise join the high numbers of child labourers in this Melanesian country.
A Grim Search for the Missing
- Inter Press Service
COLOMBO, Jul 17 (IPS) - A bloody civil war was reaching its climax but this Tamil family, who had already experienced the conflict intimately, had one last decision to make that would prove to be the hardest one of all.
Rights Groups, U.S. Denounce Sentences of Ethiopian Journalists
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jul 17 (IPS) - Human rights groups, press watchdogs, and even the U.S. government have strongly denounced recent prison sentences meted out against journalists and opposition activists accused of violating Ethiopia's anti-terrorism laws.
Sudan, South Sudan Resume Talks Amid Doubts for Long-term Success
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jul 16 (IPS) - Ahead of an Aug. 2 deadline, the leaders of Sudan and South Sudan over the weekend engaged in their first direct talks since hostilities spiked in late April.
Ithaca Ecovillage Forges a Path to Sustainable Living
- Inter Press Service
ITHACA, New York, Jul 16 (IPS) - Ecovillage at Ithaca (EVI), located in the beautiful Finger Lakes region of upstate New York, is an intentional community of 160 people striving for greater sustainability, a better quality of life, and perhaps even a new model for urban planners the world over.
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