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Bahrain’s Farms Disappearing Under Concrete Towers
- Inter Press Service
Environmentalists are engaged in a nation-wide campaign to protect what is left of the agricultural belt in Bahrain. Seventy percent of farms have been eliminated due to urbanisation, according to environmentalists who are warning of a serious environmental crisis.
PHILIPPINES: Catholics Dare Excommunication Over Reproductive Rights
- Inter Press Service
Support for reproductive health legislation, popularly known as the RH Bill here, has snowballed on social websites and among peer networks, yet passage and funding of the bill remains uncertain. Catholic bishops have long used the threat of excommunication in the raging debates over use of modern contraceptive methods - such as pills, IUDs and condoms - in the Southeast-Asian nation of over 92 million, 85 percent of whom are Catholic.
ZIMBABWE: In the Eye of the HIV/Aids Storm
- Inter Press Service
Teenage commercial sex workers are finding themselves at the centre of the HIV/AIDS storm amid concerns of widespread lack of condom use and a spike in the number of infections among this demographic, despite the country’s continuing HIV/AIDS campaigns, which health authorities say has seen a drop in prevalence in the past few years.
Oil Leak, Haiti, Afghanistan Dominated 2010 U.S. TV News
- Inter Press Service
The disastrous BP oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico, the catastrophic earthquake in Haiti, and the continuing war in Afghanistan comprised the major news stories in 2010, according to the latest annual review of network news coverage by the authoritative Tyndall Report.
VENEZUELA: Socialism as Counterattack
- Inter Press Service
Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez began the new year with special powers to implement his '21st century socialism', while the opposition returned to the legislature Wednesday after a five-year absence.
ELECTION-WATCH: Countdown Begins to Southern Sudan Referendum
- Inter Press Service
'We want an independent country of our own that is Southern Sudan, and we want a new country'. Calm and with a passion in his voice, the secondary school teacher, John Kiri, a native from Juba explained the excitement he is feeling for Sunday’ referendum.
U.N. Chief Leaves Women out of Year-End Summing Up
- Inter Press Service
When Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon wrote a year-end op-ed piece for an Australian newspaper last week, he talked about the future of a world body facing a new generation of threats: climate change, poverty, nuclear disarmament and human rights.
EL SALVADOR: Small-Scale Fishers Want a Slice of the Sea
- Inter Press Service
For the third time in 10 years, small-scale fishers in El Salvador are trying to get Congress to modify the country's fishing law, to create a five-mile exclusion zone along the coast where the industrial fleet would be banned from fishing.
ECONOMY: Namibia Embarks on Nuclear Policy
- Inter Press Service
Namibia is set to develop its rich uranium resources and intends to pursue uranium enrichment locally. It also plans to build its own nuclear electricity plant.
RIGHTS-INDIA: Judiciary On Trial
- Inter Press Service
Rights activists hope that a contempt case before India’s Supreme Court will add impetus to calls for greater accountability in the judiciary, the integrity of which has been seriously questioned in recent years.
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