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UGANDA: ICT Boom for Economy, A Bust for Some Women
- Inter Press Service
The rapid growth of the ICT market in Uganda has been greeted with optimism over its potential to boost the country’s development. But less attention is being paid to the increase in gender based violence due to the use of information and communications technology.
RIGHTS-PAKISTAN: For Women, Cyber Crimes Are All Too Real
- Inter Press Service
The Grade 10 student was first drugged, and then four men raped her. The group then apparently tried to extort money from her family. When the family filed a complaint with the police instead, the extortionists in October then posted a cellphone video of her whole ordeal on the Internet.
CHINA: ‘Hukou’ Registration System Trips Over Inequity
- Inter Press Service
Yu Mengxiang is a 24-year-old office manager at a foreign company in Beijing. Although he looks and acts like a typical urban male, his household registration — or ‘hukou’ — is in a village in north-east Liaoning province, which means he isn’t entitled to government benefits in the capital. Bucking conventional wisdom, he doesn’t want any.
/UPDATE*/: Controversial Bypass Under Way At Mozambique Smelter
- Inter Press Service
Aluminium giant BHP Billiton’s Mozal smelter has begun bypassing its fume treatment centres, emitting potentially dangerous fumes into the air without treating them first - despite a pending court case on the matter.
LATIN AMERICA: Violence Against Women Linked to HIV Risk
- Inter Press Service
'My mother used to beat me. She would lock me away, and then she started chaining me to the table,' says Elizabeth. Teresa recounts how she was seven months pregnant when her husband grabbed her by the hair, threw her to the ground and kicked her.
U.S.: Going Hungry in the Richest Nation on Earth
- Inter Press Service
While many U.S. residents prepare for their annual Thanksgiving feast Thursday, one in six are at risk of hunger — including a quarter of all children in the country.
Teaching Virtual Resistance to Violence
- Inter Press Service
What if young boys were imbued with a sense of empathy and fair play to counteract a culture that victimises women? Could they grow up to become part of a generation that renounces gender violence once and for all?
MEXICO: Sexist Violence Invisible in War on Drugs
- Inter Press Service
They were not looking for war, but it found them anyway: Yosmireli and Griselda, two and four years old, died by bullets to their heads from soldiers' guns. Their mother, aunt and seven-year-old brother Joniel were also killed, on a rural road in northwest Mexico.
CONGO: Beninois Fishing Community Evicted
- Inter Press Service
The Autonomous Port of Pointe-Noire has evicted 8,000 residents of a fishing village to make way for expanded facilities. The move is a blow to the community's livelihoods, as well as closing down the market that supplied the city's poor with affordable protein.
BRAZIL: Link to the Pacific: Road, Rail or Ship?
- Inter Press Service
A land route to the Pacific, long coveted by Brazil, would not reduce the cost of transporting Brazilian exports to China and other markets in Asia and would not make them more competitive, as advocates of paving roads and building bridges through the Amazon jungle argue.
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