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Saudis to Offset Libya Oil Shortfall
- Inter Press Service
Saudi Arabia has increased oil production to compensate for the fall in output from Libya, as the popular uprising against the regime of Muammar Gaddafi continues to grow in that North African country.
Libya Faces Expulsion from U.N. Human Rights Council
- Inter Press Service
The widespread condemnation of continued military atrocities against civilian demonstrators in Libya over the past week is paving the way for two of the harshest punitive measures against the repressive regime of Muammar el-Gaddafi: expulsion from the Human Rights Council and war crimes charges by the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague.
Peace Before Women's Rights, or Women's Rights Before Peace?
- Inter Press Service
1325. It's a combination of digits that might not mean much to the majority of the world's population, but these four numbers are a crucial tool in the global struggle for gender equality.
Expressions Of A Free Arab Cinema
- Inter Press Service
At this year’s 61st edition of the Berlin International Film Festival Iranian filmmaker Asghar Farhadi took the highest prize.
ARGENTINA: Proposal to Go after Clients of Sex Trafficking Victims
- Inter Press Service
An Argentine government proposal to crack down on clients benefiting from the trafficking of persons for the purposes of sexual exploitation has unleashed a heated debate between feminist organisations that support the idea and sex workers who are opposed to it.
TRADE: South African Imports Filling Zimbabwean Shop Shelves
- Inter Press Service
When the government of national unity (GNU) was formed two years ago, Zimbabweans expected that the days of shop shelves being filled with imported consumer goods would soon be over.
Q&A: 'Education Must Reach the Marginalised'
- Inter Press Service
Although more girls are enrolling in school - notably in countries with the greatest gender gaps like Chad, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Yemen - two-thirds of the world's illiterate adults are still women.
DEVELOPMENT: Support Piles Up for Millennium Consumption Goals
- Inter Press Service
Suggestions are pouring in from all corners of the world on how the world’s rich could reduce climate-damaging consumption habits, called Millennium Consumption Goals (MCGs), envisioned to be the flipside of the eight-point Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) set for the poor.
Anti-Gay Laws Fuel HIV
- Inter Press Service
Outdated laws that treat same-sex relations as a crime in a third of Asia-Pacific countries fuel fresh HIV infections, especially among men who have sex with men (MSM), a most vulnerable community.
PERU: Nutritional Supplement Programme Big Business for a Few
- Inter Press Service
Peru's Glass of Milk Programme (PVL) is failing in its aim of providing nutritional supplements to all poor children in Peru. But it has been a big business opportunity for the handful of companies that supply the programme, according to a special audit report seen by IPS.
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