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Nearer the Church, Farther From MDGs
- Inter Press Service
BANGKOK, Sep 04 (IPS) - When Philippines President Benigno Aquino III delivered his annual state of the union address in July, he appealed to the country’s lawmakers to break a deadlock on progressive birth control laws in this predominantly Catholic nation.
Angola’s “Free and Fair” Elections Could Be Contested
- Inter Press Service
LUANDA, Sep 04 (IPS) - Question marks hang over the legitimacy of Angola’s general election as Africa’s second-longest serving leader Jose Eduardo dos Santos has won a five-year term in office following his party’s landslide victory.
Small Step to Set Up the Biggest Marine Park
- Inter Press Service
AVARUA, Cook Islands, Sep 04 (IPS) - The world’s largest marine park is due to be launched in the Cook Islands located in the Pacific Ocean about 3,000 km from New Zealand. Covering an area of almost a million square kilometres, the park will be three times the size of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef Marine Park and twice as large as the Chagos Archipelago in the Indian Ocean that topped the list of marine protected areas (MPAs) for two years.
Capitalising on Natural Disasters in Guatemala
- Inter Press Service
GUATEMALA CITY, Sep 03 (IPS) - In a country as vulnerable to natural disasters as Guatemala, a “state of public calamity” is frequently declared – to the joy of contractors, which find a good opportunity to line their pockets.
Mystery Surrounds Reported Massacre of Yanomami Village
- Inter Press Service
CARACAS, Sep 03 (IPS) - Up to 80 Yanomami men, women and children in a remote community in the Amazon jungle in southern Venezuela were reportedly killed in early July by wildcat gold miners from Brazil, according to indigenous organisations.
Egyptian Hospitals Under Attack as Patients Lose Patience
- Inter Press Service
CAIRO, Sep 03 (IPS) - The emergency room of Mansoura International Hospital is closed, a lock and chain securing its entrance. Ambulances carrying stroke and burn victims are ordered to go elsewhere.
Gun Violence a Growing Concern in Papua New Guinea
- Inter Press Service
BRISBANE, Sep 03 (IPS) - In Papua New Guinea, the largest island nation in Melanesia in the southwest Pacific, where more than 60 percent of major crimes involve guns, a burgeoning illegal arms trade is associated with lack of employment growth and low human security, with vulnerable communities suffering the consequences.
Cuban Women Face Challenges of Self-Employment
- Inter Press Service
HAVANA, Sep 03 (IPS) - Beatriz Lemes took her time deciding, and finally agreed “apprehensively” to take the job of heading a state-run company that is making the transition to financial autonomy, a system that is spreading throughout Cuba and is testing women’s capacities, among other things.
Debate on Asbestos Safety Reaches Brazil’s Supreme Court
- Inter Press Service
RIO DE JANEIRO, Sep 03 (IPS) - Brazil’s Supreme Court is assessing the level of risk posed by asbestos to human health, while industry defends its use under controlled conditions, and associations of people with asbestos-related diseases argue that it should not be used under any circumstances, even with regulations.
- Inter Press Service
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