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Two Percent Price-Tag for a Green Economy
- Inter Press Service
Growth-obsessed markets and governments are pillaging the planet and it must stop, a new U.N. report warns.
BALKANS: Rising Anti-EU Sentiment
- Inter Press Service
Anti-European Union (EU) sentiment is growing across the Balkan countries that have proclaimed membership in the European family of nations as their highest political goal during the past decade. It is caused by prolonged economic hardships that still bite hard, failure of authorities to fight widespread corruption and political deadlock in creating stable governments.
ENERGY-MALAWI: Rise in Paraffin Prices Leaves Traders in Darkness
- Inter Press Service
Increasing energy prices have caused anxiety for many small-scale Malawian traders, especially those in rural areas and peri-urban areas who rely on paraffin for lighting their business premises.
Bill Would Aid Afghan Women Caught in U.S.-led War
- Inter Press Service
As conflict continues to rage in Afghanistan, the U.S. Congress is gearing up to debate a bill that could support the country's long-oppressed women in their struggle to achieve gender equality, even in the years after the U.S. military occupation ends.
U.N. Condemns Libya but Fails to Probe Civilian Killings
- Inter Press Service
If besieged Libyan leader Muammar el-Gaddafi survives the widespread revolt in his turmoil-plagued country, will he be the second sitting head of state to be charged or indicted for war crimes?
Iran Steps Up Crackdown on Opposition Leaders
- Inter Press Service
On Monday night, Iranian security agents raided the home of opposition leader Mehdi Karroubi, separating him from his wife, searching his house and arresting his son, Ali Karroubi, according to the local media outlet Saham News.
Q&A: Responsible Practices Can Have Tremendous Ripple Effects
- Inter Press Service
As concerns mount about environmental degradation and rising inequalities, many development experts and corporate executives alike are asking whether a business as usual attitude is sustainable in a world of increasingly scarce natural resources.
TRADE: South Africa Losing Interest in Survival of Customs Union
- Inter Press Service
A schism about the division of revenues in the world’s oldest customs union threatens to derail the process of regional economic integration in Southern Africa.
September Elections Unlikely to Bring Change to Guatemala
- Inter Press Service
Guatemalans will go to the polls to elect a new government in September. But the failure to implement in-depth reforms in the political system, including a constituent assembly to rewrite the constitution, means structural changes that could improve the social and economic situation are unlikely, according to experts and political leaders.
INDIA: Whistleblowers Pay With Their Lives
- Inter Press Service
On a winter evening this January, Amarnath Pandey was returning home through a low-lit alley of a suburban town in India’s heartland state Uttar Pradesh when a motorcycle-riding gunman suddenly appeared and fired at him.
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