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INDIA: Agitation Challenges Asbestos Import
- Inter Press Service
Activists hope that a popular agitation against the setting up of a factory to manufacture asbestos products in the eastern Bihar state will result in a nationwide ban on the large-scale import into this country of the deadly mineral fibre.
SRI LANKA: Garment Industry Woos Women Workers
- Inter Press Service
Sri Lanka’s garment industry has launched a multi-million rupee campaign to bring in female workers shunning the country’s most profitable sector for better paying jobs.
EGYPT-U.S.: Washington Voices Impatience with Regime
- Inter Press Service
Amid the continuing stand-off between protestors and the Egyptian government, the administration of U.S. President Barack Obama appeared Wednesday to be losing patience with both President Hosni Mubarak and his new vice president, Gen. Omar Suleiman.
Q&A: Another World Is Possible - It's Called Ecosocialism
- Inter Press Service
As the powerful collective energy continues to surge through Dakar, veterans of the World Social Forum (WSF) are taking a moment to examine the history, trajectory and future of the alternative global movement.
Nepal, Qatar Vie for U.N. Presidency
- Inter Press Service
When the 192-member General Assembly, the highest policy- making body at the United Nations, meets to formally induct its president, the choice is usually a foregone conclusion because the decision is made far in advance of the annual opening session in September.
VENEZUELA: Biopiracy Leaves Native Groups Out in the Cold
- Inter Press Service
Millions of cancer patients around the world benefit from a medication called Paclitaxel (Taxol), which may begin to be produced from a new source: fungi found at the summit of Venezuela's flat-topped mountains. But the indigenous communities who have lived in that area since time immemorial will receive no benefits, and were not even consulted on the matter.
WORLD SOCIAL FORUM: 'We Don’t Want Everybody to Think the Same'
- Inter Press Service
It is only the second time that the World Social Forum (WSF) takes place in Africa, the first one having been held in Nairobi, Kenya, in 2007. Since the start of the WSF in Porto Alegre, Brazil, 10 years ago, the organisers have been building African participation.
Environmental and Demographic Forces Threaten State Failure
- Inter Press Service
Uprisings in Tunisia, Egypt, and across the Middle East at the start of 2011 have reminded the world just how politically fragile some countries are. But the focus of international politics has been shifting for some time now.
EGYPT: Muslims and Christians Protest as One
- Inter Press Service
Over recent years, Egypt has witnessed mounting tension between its Muslim majority and its sizeable Coptic Christian minority. But in Cairo's Tahrir Square, the site of ongoing mass protests against the ruling regime, members of both faiths chant in unison: 'Muslim, Christian, doesn't matter; We're all in this boat together!'
Q&A: Alternatives Needed to Western-led Peacebuilding
- Inter Press Service
'Security Sector Reforms' (SSRs) have become the latest catch phrase in donor discussions on post-conflict peacebuilding around the world.
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