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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.
Strong as China, Fragile as Porcelain
- Inter Press Service
In times of inflationary pressures the price of patriotism too goes up. The news that an 18th century Chinese porcelain vase sold for a record-breaking 68 million dollars at a London auction to a mainland China buyer this month did not go down well either with Chinese government regulators fretting about asset bubbles or with a Chinese public angry about income inequality.
MALAWI: Traditional Birthing House Rises From the Rubble
- Inter Press Service
Cecilia Tomoka's birthing centre stood unused for three years before the 2009 earthquake flattened it. Now she's rebuilding the house - and her practice - as Malawi's government lifts a ban on traditional birth attendants.
RIGHTS-AUSTRALIA: In Immigration Detention, Life Is Uncertainty
- Inter Press Service
Mohsen Soltany Zand knows life inside Australia’s immigration detention system. Now an Australian citizen, Zand sought political asylum here after fleeing Iran in the late 1990s. He was held by Australian authorities in several detention facilities between 1999 and 2003. 'My experience was unbelievable. (I suffered) a lot of mental damage and many shocking things (happened). It was absolutely like hell,' he says.
PHILIPPINES: Welcome to the Women-Friendly Jail
- Inter Press Service
'I was shocked when I saw them,' says 18-year-old detainee Chona (not her real name) of the first time she saw the duplex-style bungalows painted in pastel colours that make up her ‘home’.
CLIMATE CHANGE: Gap Between Science and Pledges Likely to Outlive Cancún
- Inter Press Service
Though there is widespread acknowledgement that the ambitions for this year's climate change conference are considerably lower than for last year's, the U.N. and other groups say even the deal struck a year ago will not go far enough to stop climate change.
ARGENTINA: Click Here to Escape Gender Violence
- Inter Press Service
'Men are drunks and batterers,' Lorena Maurin tells IPS before heading in to her computer class, an oasis for women in the 22 de Enero neighbourhood on the outskirts of Buenos Aires.
As U.N. Peace Missions Multiply, Civilians See Disconnect
- Inter Press Service
Many United Nations peacekeepers are not only failing to meet the needs of civilians, but they are also perceived as unresponsive once civilians convey their needs, says a new report by Oxfam International.
ECUADOR: Native People Stand Up to Be Counted in Census
- Inter Press Service
The office is chaotic. Huge piles of T-shirts and boxes of ballpoint pens are piled high on desks where indigenous men and women are busy packing these articles, together with placards, leaflets and fliers, at the headquarters of their National Commission on Statistics.
Forests Rescue Plan Riddled with Uncertainties
- Inter Press Service
Deforestation rates have slowed in Brazil and elsewhere in expectation of a windfall of green gold from billions of dollars of carbon credits being mobilised for climate protection, some experts believe.
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