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Q&A: 'This Time There Will Be No Noah's Ark'
- Inter Press Service
'The market is not going to resolve the environmental crisis,' says theologian and environmentalist Leonardo Boff, professor at Brazil's State University of Rio de Janeiro. The solution, he says, lies in ethics and in changing our relationship with nature.
POLITICS- NAMIBIA: Numbers of Women in Government Declining
- Inter Press Service
Twenty years after independence, representation of women in senior government structures and in Parliament is declining in Namibia. According to the latest demographic survey results of August 2010, out of a population of around 2 million, women outnumber men 10:9. In 2001, the ratio was 94 males per 100 females.
FOOD CRISIS: Two New Varieties of Vegetables on Kenyan Food Market
- Inter Press Service
Agriculture remains one of the most significant economic activities in Kenya. It accounts for over 24 percent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) with an estimated 70 percent of total production coming from small scale farmers who typically have about 2-5 acres of land, depending on the region.
CHINA: Researchers Race Toward Renewable Energy
- Inter Press Service
Researchers in China, the world’s leading provider of wind turbines and solar panels, are working toward making renewable energy cheaper, more efficient and a bigger part of the country’s power grid.
CAMBODIA: Aid Dependence May Hurt Successes in HIV, AIDS
- Inter Press Service
Thanks to a healthy cocktail of foreign aid and a pragmatic condom policy, one of South-east Asia’s poorest countries is well on course to meeting an international target aimed at reversing the spread of HIV and AIDS.
PERU: Sacrificing the Rainforest on the Altar of Energy
- Inter Press Service
The construction of five hydroelectric dams in Peru as part of an energy deal with Brazil will do considerable damage to the environment, such as the destruction of nearly 1.5 million hectares of jungle over the next 20 years, according to an independent study.
GUATEMALA: Women Make Inroads in Key Positions of Power
- Inter Press Service
Guatemala, it seems, is trying out a new image. As of this month, women are at the helm of the Public Prosecutor's Office and the Comptroller General's Office, winning their posts on merit, in what local activists are calling an important step in women's access to political power -- though 'there is a long way to go.'
MAURITIUS: They Do Politics Differently
- Inter Press Service
'I do politics every day, but partisan politics? No, thank you,' says Jane Ragoo, long-time trade unionist and social worker. She believes in working to bring about change in society and improve people’s lives but has no interest in clambering onto a truck to campaign for office.
INDIA: Life Term for Activist a Setback for Human Rights
- Inter Press Service
The life sentence served on Dr Binayak Sen on charges of helping Maoist rebels in eastern India has rattled people and organisations fighting to strengthen human rights in a country that prides itself on being the world’s biggest democracy.
PAKISTAN: Scientists Turn Sights on Childhood Meningitis
- Inter Press Service
She is already eight months old, but Aiman Azam can neither sit up nor clutch anything with her tiny hands. She cannot even hold her neck up or roll on her back. All she does is moan.
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