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Lagging Urban Transport Works Hinder World Cup Sustainability
- Inter Press Service
NATAL, Brazil, May 15 (IPS) - Brazil's efforts to promote the image of an environmentally sustainable World Cup have focused on the stadiums built for the tournament. But the 12 cities where the matches will be played are in a race against time to complete the urban transport projects.
Nigeria's Nightmare Gives New Momentum to IVAWA
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, May 15 (IPS) - Amidst intensifying concern over the fate of more than 200 girls abducted by a radical Islamist group in northern Nigeria, at least 100 representatives of various activist groups Tuesday pressed the U.S. Senate to approve legislation designed to prevent and respond to violence against women and girls and discourage child marriages around the world.
Breaking the Rules
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, May 14 (IPS) - Small underdeveloped countries, unless they suddenly discover oil or gold, are at a distinct disadvantage in the global arena. If they play by the rules, they will remain underdeveloped. Over the last half-century, very few countries have managed to jump from the Third World to the club of richest nations.
Mangroves Could Be Savior of Guyana’s Shrinking Coastline
- Inter Press Service
GEORGETOWN, May 14 (IPS) - Agriculture has always played an important role in the socioeconomic development of Guyana, the only Caribbean Community (CARICOM) member state that straddles South America.
Popular Rwandan Rights Group Helps Youth Create Jobs with Popcorn Venture
- Inter Press Service
KIGALI, May 14 (IPS) - Twenty-year-old Fabrice Shyaka sells popcorn in brown paper bags five nights a week from his stand in a small alleyway, situated next to a DVD shop blaring loud music, and a supermarket. Here in Kanombe, a suburb in the Rwandan capital of Kigali, he is the only person selling popcorn in the area.
Anti-Semitic Attitudes Strongest in Arab World
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, May 14 (IPS) - Anti-Jewish attitudes are found most frequently in Arab countries but persist in much of the rest of the world, especially in Eastern Europe, most of whose Jews were wiped out during the Nazi Holocaust in World War II, according to global survey by the New York-based Anti-Defamation League (ADL).
World Bank Finds Huge Hole in Social Safety Nets
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, May 13 (IPS) - Social safety net programmes have expanded, yet 870 million of the world's poorest people remain uncovered, says a new World Bank report released Tuesday.
Torture Remains the World's Dirty Secret, Amnesty Says
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, May 13 (IPS) - Alfreda Disbarro is awaiting trial in her native Philippines, charged with the sale and possession of illegal drugs. According to her sworn affidavit, while in police custody, she was in so much pain that she couldn't eat, had difficulty breathing and kept vomiting.
Nigeria’s Boko Haram Begins to Destabilise Cameroon
- Inter Press Service
YAOUNDE, May 13 (IPS) - Senior defence officials say that Cameroon has been infiltrated by Nigeria's Islamist extremist group Boko Haram and there are fears that this central African nation, known for its stability, is drifting into chaos.
Kremlin’s International Policies Could Mean Russian Brain Drain
- Inter Press Service
MOSCOW, May 13 (IPS) - As Russia faces harsh sanctions and growing international isolation over its annexation of Crimea and support of separatists in eastern Ukraine, economists and sociologists are warning that the Kremlin's international policies may fuel a potentially devastating brain drain.
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