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Faith-Based Organisations Warn of Impending Nuclear Disaster
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, May 07 (IPS) - As the month-long review conference on the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) continued into its second week, a coalition of some 50 faith-based organisations (FBOs), anti-nuclear peace activists and civil society organisations (CSOs) was assigned an unenviable task: a brief three-minute presentation warning the world of the disastrous humanitarian consequences of a nuclear attack.
Unifying Transmission from North to South Means Cheaper Energy in Chile
- Inter Press Service
SANTIAGO, May 07 (IPS) - Chile expects to have a more efficient and stable electricity market, with a more steady - and above all, less expensive – supply, when the country's two major power grids are interconnected over a distance of more than 3,000 km.
Police Killings Challenge U.S. "Exceptionalism"
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, May 06 (IPS) - Since being roundly chastised last fall by the U.N. Committee Against Torture for excessive use of force by its law enforcement agencies, the United States hasn't exactly managed to repair its international reputation.
Falling Oil Prices Trigger Initial Economic Gains for Pacific Islanders
- Inter Press Service
CANBERRA, Australia, May 06 (IPS) - The recent dramatic fall in world oil prices, with Brent crude plummeting from a high of 115 dollars per barrel in June last year to around 47 dollars in January 2015, is beginning to benefit Pacific Islanders who are seeing lower prices for fuel and energy.
Sri Lanka’s Development Goals Fall Short on Gender Equality
- Inter Press Service
COLOMBO, May 05 (IPS) - When Rosy Senanayake, Sri Lanka's minister of state for child affairs, addressed the U.N. Commission on Population and Development (CPD) in New York last month, she articulated both the successes and shortcomings of gender equality in a country which prided itself electing the world's first female head of government: Mrs. Sirimavo Bandaranaike in July 1960.
Kerry Brings Promise of 45 Million Dollars for Kenya’s Massive Refugee Camp
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, May 05 (IPS) - At a meeting with Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry this week pledged an extra 45 million dollars for the U.N. which is sheltering over a half million refugees fleeing civil unrest, terrorism and violence in Somalia and South Sudan.
Urban Slums a Death Trap for Poor Children
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, May 05 (IPS) - It's called the urban survival gap – fuelled by the growing inequality between rich and poor in both developing and developed countries – and it literally determines whether millions of infants will live or die before their fifth birthday.
Costa Rica’s Energy Nearly 100 Percent Clean
- Inter Press Service
SAN JOSE, May 05 (IPS) - Costa Rica has almost reached its goal of an energy mix based solely on renewable sources, harnessing solar, wind and geothermal power, as well as the energy of the country's rivers.
Families in Quake-Hit Nepal Desperate to Get on With Their Lives
- Inter Press Service
KAVRE DISTRICT, Nepal, May 05 (IPS) - Just over a week after a dreadful 7.8 magnitude earthquake rocked Nepal, displaced families are gradually – but cautiously – resuming their normal lives, though most are still badly shaken by the disaster and the proceeding aftershocks that devastated the country.
Popular Nigerian Writer Headlines at Blockbuster World Voices Fest
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, May 05 (IPS) - Prize-winning writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is hoping to break down some stereotypes at the upcoming World Voices Festival sponsored by the PEN America free expression group.
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