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Disabled Forced Into Labour in Zimbabwe
- Inter Press Service
HARARE, May 05 (IPS) - Workers Day on May 1 came and went, but it's only a day like any other for disabled 31-year-old street vendor Tsitsi Chikosha making a living selling goods from a makeshift table in downtown Harare.
Yemen Facing Another Implosion
- Inter Press Service
SANA'A, May 05 (IPS) - The popular uprising of 2011 pushed long time Yemeni leader Ali Abdullah Saleh out of power but it has emboldened the Houthi movement that is rapidly changing the balance of power in North Yemen.
Myanmar Media Still Not Fully Free
- Inter Press Service
YANGON, May 05 (IPS) - Kyaw Kyaw Aung is just 22, but already has dark memories of days when information, sometimes of the mundane kind, could land you in a dark cell for a very long time in Myanmar, a Southeast Asian nation that was under military rule for decades.
On the Street That’s Home
- Inter Press Service
CAIRO, May 05 (IPS) - Leila*, 19, has a soft, rasping voice and sad eyes. Her face is striped with long scars but nothing in her neat appearance hints that for the last nine years, her ‘home' has been the streets just north of downtown Cairo.
Fatwa Comes Too Late for Kashmir's Half-Widows
- Inter Press Service
SRINAGAR, India, May 05 (IPS) - Forty-seven-year-old Shahmala's husband has been missing since 1993. In India's restive Jammu and Kashmir state, she is what is known as a half-widow, a woman who has no clue whether her husband is dead or alive.
India’s Poor Face High Infant Deaths
- Inter Press Service
ATTAPPADI, India, May 04 (IPS) - The death of a 10-day-old girl last November in the Attappadi tribal belt of Kerala, one of India's best performing states in terms of human development indices, shows how the country's battle against child mortality is far from won.
With Refugees Comes Crime
- Inter Press Service
PESHAWAR, Pakistan, May 04 (IPS) - Blaming Afghan refugees for a surge in crime, Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province has placed restrictions on the movement of those who do not possess legal documents to stay in the country.
Syrian Split Divides Christians
- Inter Press Service
QAMISHLI, Syria, May 04 (IPS) - Malki Hana says his men are afraid of cameras. "Most of them are army defectors and they may easily get in trouble," says this commander of a mostly unknown armed group in Syria.
OP-ED: The Two-State Option is Dead: Time for New Thinking
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, May 03 (IPS) - The recent suspension of the U.S. -engineered Israeli-Palestinian talks signals a much deeper reality than the immediate factors that caused it. The peace process and the two-state solution, which for years were on life support, are now dead.
Raped, And Abandoned By Law
- Inter Press Service
LAHORE, Pakistan, May 03 (IPS) - Amina Bibi, an 18-year-old from Pakistan's Punjab province, was allegedly raped by four men on Jan. 5 this year. All the accused were granted bail. A desperate Amina set herself on fire outside a police station on Mar. 13 and succumbed to burn injuries the next day.
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