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  1. Climate Change Legislation Faltering in Costa Rica

    - Inter Press Service

    SAN JOSE, May 21 (IPS) - Eight months after it was introduced in the Costa Rican legislature, a bill to create a framework law on climate change is faltering after undergoing modifications that have run into criticism from environmentalists and experts – a situation made even more complex by the recent change of government.

  2. Sri Lankan Youth Desperate for Change

    - Inter Press Service

    COLOMBO, May 21 (IPS) - It has been five years since Sri Lanka's brutal three-decades-long civil conflict came to an end in May 2009, but for the country's youth, true national reconciliation is still a long way off.

  3. Caribbean Forced to Choose Between Climate Change Impact and MDGs

    - Inter Press Service

    ST. JOHN’S, Antigua, May 21 (IPS) - Climate change is forcing the nine-member Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) to choose between expending scarce resources to deal with its impact or other pressing development goals.

  4. OP-ED: The Ugly Truth about Garbage and Island Biodiversity

    - Inter Press Service

    BONN, May 21 (IPS) - Some of the Earth's most delicate tropical paradises are being disfigured by the by-products of the modern age - marine debris: plastic bottles, carrier bags and discarded fishing gear. 

  5. Vibrant Civil Society, A Must For South Sudan

    - Inter Press Service

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    JOHANNESBURG, May 21 (IPS) - I had the privilege of visiting South Sudan a few months after the world's youngest state had been born in July 2011.  Then, most people were wondering what the future held for the country.  The road has not been easy so far.

  6. Is the Sewol Tragedy South Korea’s Katrina?

    - Inter Press Service

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    SEOUL, May 21 (IPS) - In the weeks since the South Korean ferry Sewol sank—taking with it the lives of over 300 passengers, the vast majority of them high school students—the country continues to be wracked by a palpable mix of grief, guilt, and outrage.

  7. China Tightens Grip On Africa

    - Inter Press Service

    NAIROBI, May 21 (IPS) - Janice Gacheri imports handbags and shoes from China which she sells on social media sites and by word of mouth to customers in Nairobi and neighbouring towns. 

  8. Days After African Leaders Vow to Defeat Boko Haram, Bombings and Terror Continue

    - Inter Press Service

    ABUJA, May 20 (IPS) - Multiple car bombs killed dozens Tuesday in the central Nigerian city of Jos, Plateau state, days after a security summit in France where African leaders committed to a "war" on Nigeria's Islamist rebels, Boko Haram.

  9. Transgenics Prosper Amidst Pragmatism and Collateral Damage

    - Inter Press Service

    BUENOS AIRES, May 20 (IPS) - The advertising department of Swiss agribusiness giant Syngenta was on a roll in early 2004 when it published a map that dubbed a large area of Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay and Uruguay the "United Republic of Soy".

  10. Syrian Rebel-held Mountain Villages Preparing for Bigger Battles

    - Inter Press Service

    JABAL AL-AKRAD (SYRIA), May 20 (IPS) - In the mountains east of the coastal port of government-held Latakia, three years of regime bombardment has left swaths of blackened stumps in the mountain forests and crumbling concrete structures in Sunni villages, most of whose inhabitants support opposition forces.

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