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Lawsuit Filed Against BP Compensation Czar
- Inter Press Service
A first-of-its-kind lawsuit alleging gross negligence and fraud has been filed in a Florida state court against Kenneth Feinberg, the administrator of the 20-billion-dollar compensation fund for victims of BP's Gulf oil spill, and the Gulf Coast Claims Facility (GCCF).
Q&A: Ordinary Women Have Extraordinary Stories to Tell
- Inter Press Service
Ordinary women's voices are too often ignored when it comes to solving their own problems, admonishes Loga Virahsawmy, Director of the Southern African NGO Gender Links, Mauritius and Francophone Office.
Arab Uprising Bypasses Domestic Slaves
- Inter Press Service
The uprisings sweeping the Arab world have been provoked by long injustice, low income, police brutality, and lack of social security. While the world looks at this, the suffering of up to three million maids across the Arab world remains wrapped in silence.
KENYA: Civil Society Defends Access to Generic Drugs
- Inter Press Service
Access to affordable medicine for millions of people in the South could be at risk if the production and distribution of generic medicine from India is restricted.
SOUTHERN AFRICA: Energy Pie Greater Than the Sum of its Parts
- Inter Press Service
Two million compact fluorescent lamps will be distributed to households and industry in Malawi by June, in just one of several measures to bridge the gap between electricity supply and demand. Across Southern Africa, energy shortfalls threaten to choke development.
Rights Group Urges Probe of Bahraini Crackdown
- Inter Press Service
A leading rights group here condemned actions taken by Bahraini security forces in suppressing peaceful protests in recent weeks, including the deaths of seven Bahraini citizens in the last fortnight, and called for a 'transparent and independent investigation into government initiated violence'.
LIBYA: West, U.N. Turn Up Heat on Gaddafi
- Inter Press Service
International efforts to strangle Muammar Gaddafi's regime are intensifying, as Western leaders, including U.S. President Barack Obama, call for the autocrat's immediate departure, while the Pentagon and key allies consider contingency plans for a potential no-fly zone over the North African nation.
Warming Hits Food Chain at the Bottom of the World
- Inter Press Service
Wildebeests have the Serengeti, and tiny krill the sea ice. But in the upside-down world of the Antarctic Peninsula, one of the biggest shows on earth would pass unheeded except for the work of a band of polar scientists seeking clues to what changes in temperatures and sea ice levels mean to wildlife.
BRAZIL: Locals Protest 'Metal Rain' Pollution from Steelworks
- Inter Press Service
A protestor held out a handful of metal dust, part of the 'silvery rain' falling that day in Santa Cruz, a low-income neighbourhood on the west side of this Brazilian city, as proof of the environmental nightmare affecting the area ever since a German steel plant opened there.
Arab Civil Society Calls for No-Fly Zone over Libya
- Inter Press Service
Besieged Libyan leader Muammar el-Gaddafi, who has incurred the wrath of his own people and drawn punitive strictures from the international community, is now under attack by a coalition of over 200 Arab non-governmental organisations (NGOs), including a group of intellectuals from across the Middle East.
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