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HEALTH: Rich and Poor Suffer Both Infectious and Noncommunicable Diseases
- Inter Press Service
The world is experiencing a change in the geographic distribution of diseases. Traditionally, infectious diseases, which claim the lives of so many children, affected poor countries, and noncommunicable diseases like diabetes, cardiac ailments and cancer plagued rich countries.
DEVELOPMENT: New Action Programme, and New Name for the Poorest
- Inter Press Service
A new 10-year blueprint for assisting the poorest countries on the planet to join the league of the more fortunate ones was approved Friday at the closing of the Fourth U.N. Conference on the Least Developed Countries (LDC-IV) held May 9- 13 here.
DEVELOPMENT: Programme of Action Adopted for World's Poorest Nations
- Inter Press Service
'The future for least developed countries lies in trade, productive capacity and governance more than in aid,' said Cheick Sidi Diarra, United Nations High representative for the Least Developed Countries, responding to criticism of the plan of action put forward as the U.N. conference on the world's poorest nations drew to a close in Istanbul.
DEVELOPMENT: South-South Axis Strengthens
- Inter Press Service
The glass isn’t exactly half-full, but it certainly is not entirely empty either. Within the broad failure of the weeklong Fourth U.N. Conference on the Least Developed Countries (LDC-IV) in Istanbul that concluded Friday, many delegates are taking heart in a strengthening South-South front that has emerged.
Black Market in Arms Flourishing as Arab Spring Continues
- Inter Press Service
As the Syrian uprisings escalate in violence, Lebanon’s black market in arms is flourishing, with prices of light and medium weapons driven higher by Lebanese and Syrian demand.
SIERRA LEONE: Promise of More Space for Women in Decision-making
- Inter Press Service
In Sierra Leone’s highly patriarchal society, where institutionalised gender inequalities are exacerbated by discriminatory customs, one group is singing it’s way towards changing this.
World in the Throes of a Human Rights Revolution, Says Amnesty
- Inter Press Service
The growing demands for democratic reforms spreading across the Middle East and North Africa - along with the dramatic rise of social media networks - have triggered 'a human rights revolution on the threshold of a historic change', says Amnesty International (AI).
Uganda Police and Opposition Supporters Clash
- Inter Press Service
Up to five people were killed when Ugandan police clashed with opposition supporters who attacked cars carrying African leaders at the inauguration of President Yoweri Museveni.
POLITICS: Balkanisation of Libya
- Inter Press Service
As the battle for Libya rages on - with the country’s economic heartland, Misurata, being the scene of some of the uprising’s fiercest fighting - experts are warning that a ‘Balkanisation’ of Libya is possible if the U.S. and NATO opt to exploit loopholes in U.N. Resolution 1973 by arming the opposition.
POLITICS: Balkanisation of Libya
- Inter Press Service
As the battle for Libya rages on - with the country’s economic heartland, Misurata, being the scene of some of the uprising’s fiercest fighting - experts are warning that a ‘Balkanisation’ of Libya is possible if the U.S. and NATO opt to exploit loopholes in U.N. Resolution 1973 by arming the opposition.
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