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SWAZILAND: Free Primary Education - If You Can Afford It
- Inter Press Service
The new school year opened with hope - and hunger - in Swaziland this week: an estimated 140,000 orphans and vulnerable children are among the small, eager faces in the mountain kingdom's classrooms. Poverty and the AIDS pandemic threaten to make an early mark on the next generation.
EAST EUROPE: Midwives Struggle to Deliver Home Births
- Inter Press Service
Women’s rights in Eastern Europe have been put into the spotlight as a Hungarian midwife faces five years in prison for assisting with home births.
Food Worries Rise in China
- Inter Press Service
In China, a country with a history of famine and where rural dwellers still use the greeting 'have you eaten?', food is close to sacred. Feeding the country’s massive population remains one of the biggest threats to future economic growth and social stability, experts warn.
INDIA: Alcoholism Grips Progressive Kerala
- Inter Press Service
The scene outside a temple in Kannur district in Kerala recently was something unusual in modern India. Sitting on one side of a balance scale hanging in front of the Kannadipara Muthappan Temple was a woman, and on the other side, a bucket of coconut wine.
Malawi Missing Its Local Government
- Inter Press Service
An hour and fifteen minutes each day: Melina Kalunga has plenty of time to measure how long it takes to resolve a legal battle over Malawi's Electoral Commission.
Pressure Builds to End Stalemate in Cote d'Ivoire
- Inter Press Service
Ten days before the two-month deadline for a negotiated solution to Cote d'Ivoire's presidential deadlock comes due, pressure is mounting to end the stalemate in Abidjan, as observers pin the outcome of the power struggle on the future of the region as a whole.
More Arabs Protest Rulers With Self-Immolations
- Inter Press Service
Mohammed Bouazizi, the 26-year old Tunisian whose act of self-immolation led to an unprecedented popular revolution in Tunisia, is quickly turning into a symbol for disgruntled Arab youths angry at their autocratic rulers and poor economic conditions - a development that Arab leaders in the region are clearly taking note of.
More Arabs Protest Rulers With Self-Immolations
- Inter Press Service
Mohammed Bouazizi, the 26-year old Tunisian whose act of self-immolation led to an unprecedented popular revolution in Tunisia, is quickly turning into a symbol for disgruntled Arab youths angry at their autocratic rulers and poor economic conditions - a development that Arab leaders in the region are clearly taking note of.
Malnutrition Has an Indigenous Face in Peru
- Inter Press Service
Indigenous children under five in Peru's highlands regions still bear the brunt of chronic malnutrition, even though local authorities in those areas received millions of dollars worth of taxes between 2006 and 2010 from the mining companies operating there.
Arab Regimes Fear Bread Intifadah
- Inter Press Service
'Break my heart but don’t come near my bread,' goes an old Arabic proverb. Failure to observe it has often come at a high political price.
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