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NEPAL: Education Shouldn’t Be A Casualty in Emergencies
- Inter Press Service
Nepal may be doing well in providing complete primary education to boys and girls, but has quite a bit of catching up to do when it comes to ensuring that their schooling does not become a casualty during disasters and emergencies.
POLITICS: Human Suffering Escalates in Ivory Coast
- Inter Press Service
Peace Must Be 'Afghan-led and Afghan-owned', Diplomats Say
- Inter Press Service
The U.S. move to send 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan may be seen in Washington as the only effective and viable strategy to stabilise the country, but not everyone in the diplomatic community here at U.N. headquarters agrees.
Legal Shortcuts Trap the Peruvian Anchovy
- Inter Press Service
Exports of fishmeal made from Peruvian anchoveta, or anchovy (Engraulis ringens), is so lucrative that fishers have sought -- and found -- legal shortcuts to obtain permits that would have been impossible through formal channels. This practice is exhausting even the contingency stock that the government had set aside.
Q&A: 'Transparency Helps Ensure Donors' Promises Are Met'
- Inter Press Service
This past September, world leaders meeting at the United Nations vowed to spend $40 billion over the next five years to save the lives of more than 16 million women and children dying of deadly diseases or lack of medical care, particularly during and after pregnancy.
CANADA: Buck-Passing Marks Postmortem of G20 Chaos
- Inter Press Service
Six months after the chaos surrounding security and policing at June's G20 leaders' summit in Toronto, there is little agreement about where the buck should stop.
MATERNAL HEALTH: Mobile Phones to the Rescue for Pregnant Women
- Inter Press Service
Pumwani Maternity Hospital, in the impoverished Nairobi neighbourhood of Eastlands, is the site of a trial project using mobile phones to help HIV-positive mothers avoid passing the virus on to their children.
U.S. Finning Ban Caps Busy Year for Shark Conservation
- Inter Press Service
The U.S. Congress banned shark finning in all U.S. waters Tuesday, a victory environmental advocates are hoping sends a message to international regulators.
Street Vendors Defend Right to Make a Living in San Salvador
- Inter Press Service
Juan Antonio Gallegos sells Mexican tortillas in Cuscatlán Park in the capital of El Salvador. Like other street vendors who work in the area, he has one thing on his mind these days: how to resist the imminent eviction that forms part of the city's government's urban renewal plan.
WATER: Early Rains Rekindle Interest in Rainwater Harvesting
- Inter Press Service
In Thembekie Gwebu’s yard under the roof leaves stands a curious giant green plastic container with a plastic pipe connected to the gutter. She has been asked a number of times by curious visitors and passers-by what the contraption is, and she happily explains.
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