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Cuba and U.S. Skirt Obstacles to Normalisation of Ties
- Inter Press Service
HAVANA, Jan 26 (IPS) - The biggest discrepancies in the first meeting to normalise relations between Cuba and the United States, after more than half a century, were over the issue of human rights. But what stood out in the talks was a keen interest in forging ahead, in a process led by two women.
OPINION: Looking Two Steps Ahead into Saudi Arabia’s Future
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jan 26 (IPS) - Much has been written about King Abdullah's legacy and what Saudi Arabia accomplished or failed to accomplish during his reign in terms of reform and human rights. Very little has been written about the role that Muhammad bin Nayef, the newly appointed deputy to the crown prince, could play in the new Saudi Arabia under King Salman.
Africa’s Rural Women Must Count in Water Management
- Inter Press Service
NAIROBI, Jan 26 (IPS) - More women's voices are being heard at international platforms to address the post-2015 water agenda, as witnessed at the recently concluded international U.N International Water Conference held from Jan. 15 to 17 in Zaragoza, Spain.
Renewables Can Benefit Water, Energy and Food Nexus
- Inter Press Service
ABU DHABI, Jan 26 (IPS) - With global energy needs projected to increase by 35 percent by 2035, a new report says meeting this demand could increase water withdrawals in the energy sector unless more cost effective renewable energy sources are deployed in power, water and food production.
Not Without Our Daughters: Lambada Women Fight Infanticide and Child Trafficking
- Inter Press Service
CHANDAMPET, India, Jan 26 (IPS) - At 11 years of age, Banawat Gangotri already has four years of work experience as a farm labourer. The child, a member of the nomadic Lambada community from the village of Bugga Thanda in India's southern Telangana state, plucked cotton and chillies from nine a.m. until 5 p.m. for about a dollar daily.
Aboriginal Businesses Stimulate Positive Change in Australia
- Inter Press Service
MOSSMAN, Queensland, Australia, Jan 26 (IPS) - Roy Roger Gibson, an indigenous Kuku Yalanji elder, would watch thousands of tourists and vehicles trampling his pristine land while working on the sugarcane fields in Far North Queensland. His people were suffering and their culture was being eroded. The native wildlife was disappearing. He dreamt of turning this around.
Zimbabwe Faces Troubling Spike in Cases of Multi-Drug Resistant TB
- Inter Press Service
HARARE, Jan 25 (IPS) - About eight years ago, 44-year-old Tilda Chihota was struck with tuberculosis which kept her bed-ridden for over six months at her rural home in Zimbabwe's Mwenezi district, 144 kilometres southwest of Masvingo, the country's oldest town.
After Nine Years of Foot-Dragging, U.N. Ready for Talks on High Seas Treaty
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jan 25 (IPS) - After four days of intense negotiations - preceded by nine years of dilly-dallying - the United Nations has agreed to convene an intergovernmental conference aimed at drafting a legally binding treaty to conserve marine life and govern the mostly lawless high seas beyond national jurisdiction.
OPINION: Greece Gives EU the Chance to Rediscover Its Social Responsibility
- Inter Press Service
COVENTRY, England, Jan 24 (IPS) - The European Union should not be afraid of the leftist opposition party Syriza winning the Greek election, but see it as a chance to rediscover its founding principle - the social dimension that created it and without which it cannot survive.
Forced Disappearances Are Humanitarian Crisis in Mexico
- Inter Press Service
MEXICO CITY, Jan 23 (IPS) - The Mexican government will face close scrutiny from the United Nations Committee on Enforced Disappearances – a phenomenon that made international headlines after 43 students from a rural teachers college were killed in September in Iguala, in a case that has not yet been fully clarified.
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