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Serbians Unite Against Nickel Extraction
- Inter Press Service
BELGRADE, Sep 27 (IPS) - A popular Serbian proverb quips that when it comes to politics there are as many opinions as there are people in this central European country of seven million.
Starving for an Equitable Food System
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Sep 27 (IPS) - The root cause of hunger and malnutrition for millions of people worldwide lies in the severely skewed and unfairly structured hierarchy of policymakers, not in natural disasters or food shortages, according to the Right to Food and Nutrition Watch 2012 (RTFN Watch) released Tuesday.
Private Sector, U.N. Unite to Bring Millions into Classrooms
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Sep 27 (IPS) - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon Wednesday launched a new initiative aimed at giving education the highest political priority in the global agenda and ensuring progress towards the U.N.’s Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
U.N. Takes Up Intervention Plan on Mali
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Sep 27 (IPS) - The United Nations Security Council on Wednesday began to debate a plan to deploy West African peacekeeping troops to tackle the six-month Islamist insurgency in northern Mali.
Q&A: Migration Now a Key Part of the Global Economy
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Sep 26 (IPS) - As international migration continues to grow in scope, complexity and impact, effectively managing it has steadily moved up on the agenda of the international community.
U.N. Chief Fires Up Private Investment for Global Energy Solutions
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Sep 26 (IPS) - Following a lukewarm outcome of the Rio+20 sustainable development negotiations in June, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is moving full-steam ahead on a new initiative aimed at leveraging public-private partnerships to bring modern energy to over one billion people by 2030.
The Long Road to a Home of One’s Own in Cuba
- Inter Press Service
HAVANA, Sep 26 (IPS) - “The most important thing for Cubans is their home,” says Raimundo Pérez, a real estate broker who is familiar with the travails of finding housing, despite the latest incentives made available by the Cuban government.
New Roadmap for NGOs in Haiti Aims to “Weed Out Bad Apples”
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Sep 26 (IPS) - Haitian Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe and representatives from more than 50 non-governmental organisations, including actor-activist Sean Penn, met in New York on Monday to present a new roadmap for humanitarian aid in the country.
Smuggling Freely Across the Colombia-Venezuela Border
- Inter Press Service
SAN CRISTÓBAL, Venezuela, Sep 26 (IPS) - It's a straightforward calculation: a litre of gasoline costs 62 times more in Colombia than in Venezuela, a difference that fuels smuggling and crime along the border.
Stevia, a Flourishing Business in Spain
- Inter Press Service
MÁLAGA, Spain, Sep 26 (IPS) - On a parcel of land a few kilometres outside the southern Spanish city of Málaga, unemployed activists are growing 2,000 seedlings of stevia, a plant used by the Guaraní indigenous people for centuries as a natural sweetener that is awakening ever greater interest in Spain.
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