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No Quiet Old Age for South Africa's Grannies
- Inter Press Service
Grannies are indispensable in South Africa. They may have been hoping for a restful old age, but the AIDS epidemic has seen them taking on motherhood for a second time, caring for grandchildren whose parents have died of the disease.
BRAZIL: Women in 'Pacified' Favelas Claim Their Rights
- Inter Press Service
The peace imposed on the more than 200,000 people living in the Complexo do Alemão group of favelas in Rio de Janeiro by Brazil's military police is helping to pave the way for the recognition of basic human rights.
SOUTHERN AFRICA: Tri-Partite Agreement Presages Wider Zambezi Agreement
- Inter Press Service
Mozambique, Zambia and Zimbabwe are poised to sign a memorandum of understanding to improve power generation along the length of the Zambezi River.
LIBYA: Recovering From Horror, Waiting for More
- Inter Press Service
The walls outside the Al-Jalah Hospital in downtown Bengazi are covered with posters of missing persons, mostly teenagers and young men who disappeared after the protests began. Inside, hundreds of gunshot victims recover from the street battle between Muammar Gaddafi's forces and Benghazi's citizens.
PAKISTAN: New Fears Over Malnutrition
- Inter Press Service
'She was just skin and bones, even crying seemed a huge effort,' Hajiani says of one-year-old Samreen Tauqir, when she saw her for the first time two months ago.
Kurd Issue to the Fore Ahead of Elections
- Inter Press Service
Sultan Quyun, 58, longs for the day when the decades-long conflict between the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) and Turkish security forces will come to an end. For her, the end of violence does not just hold the promise of a possible resolution of the Kurdish issue in the country, but would bring about, she hopes, a much-awaited reunion with her son.
Recruiting Now for New Offensive Against Gaddafi
- Inter Press Service
As the defectors from the Libyan army organize the weapons they have recovered from Muammar Gaddafi's strongholds in the region, thousands of Libyan men are volunteering to join the soldiers in a possible attack on Tripoli to oust Gaddafi from power.
U.N. Body Suspends Libya from Human Rights Council
- Inter Press Service
The 192-member General Assembly, the highest policy-making body at the United Nations, unanimously adopted a resolution Tuesday suspending Libya's membership in the Geneva-based Human Rights Council.
MEXICO: Eco-Friendly Livelihoods for Women in the Sierra Madre
- Inter Press Service
They live in a town with an apt name, Soledad (Solitude) de Guadalupe, of just 50 houses, most of which are inhabited by women on their own, in the Sierra Madre mountains in the small state of Querétaro in central Mexico.
Q&A: ‘Doing Good and Doing Good Business Are Not Incompatible’
- Inter Press Service
It is short sighted to dismiss the benefits or potential of engaging the private sector in human rights matters, says Sara Lulo, director of the Avon Global Center for Women and Justice.
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