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CAMBODIA: Pepper Farmers Get Ready for their Champagne Moment
- Inter Press Service
Under a shady trellis of rice sacks in the province of Kampot in southern Cambodia, 42-year-old Nuon Yan tends his crop of pepper vines.
CLIMATE CHANGE: Beware of Carbon Trading Trap Warn Activists
- Inter Press Service
As the climate change summit in the Danish capital moves into a second day, environmental groups warn that by pushing carbon offsetting and trade, governments of developed countries are bypassing their responsibility to significantly reduce domestic emissions and provide aid to developing countries.
POLITICS-ASIA: Inter-religious Forum Calls for Nuclear Abolition
- Inter Press Service
For the global religious community, the use of nuclear arms is an overwhelmingly important ethical issue for the human family. Thus, nothing less than the immediate abolition of such weapons is needed from the highest levels, said speakers at the Parliament of the World’s Religions currently underway in this Australian city.
AFGHANISTAN: Gov’t and Donors Fail to Protect Women’s Rights
- Inter Press Service
Attention over the past week has focused on United States President Barack Obama’s decision to 'surge' troop levels in Afghanistan to 30,000 and begin a drawdown in 18-months, but a new report calls attention to the failure of the Afghanistan government and international donors to protect women’s rights.
CLIMATE CHANGE: Greenhouse Gases Endanger Public Health - EPA
- Inter Press Service
Twelve years after the climate change meetings in Kyoto, a much changed U.S. will show up at the Copenhagen conference this week, and, following recent developments in Washington, their ability to offer and agree to international climate actions has likely never been higher.
DEVELOPMENT: Afro-Uruguayan Women Find Their Own Way Home
- Inter Press Service
Contrary to popular belief in Uruguay, the capital city’s black population is no longer concentrated in neighbourhoods like Barrio Sur, Palermo and Cordón, which were historically home to the majority of African descendents and remain heavily steeped in Afro-Uruguayan culture.
SIERRA LEONE: Mixed Reactions to Libel Laws Ruling
- Inter Press Service
Journalists in Sierra Leone can still be arrested and jailed for writing material considered 'libel' regardless if what they published is true or not.
US: Whistleblower Psychiatrist Warns of Soldier on Soldier Violence
- Inter Press Service
Kernan Manion, a psychiatrist who was hired last January to treat Marines returning from war who suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other acute mental health problems borne from their deployments, fears more soldier-on-soldier violence without radical changes in the current soldier health care system.
Q&A: Punitive Laws Problematic For HIV Response - UNAIDS
- Inter Press Service
The East African Community is currently developing a law to guide the region’s response to HIV/AIDS. The move comes ahead of the commencement of the East Africa common market protocol.
CLIMATE CHANGE: Rich Nations Resist Binding Commitments
- Inter Press Service
Betrayal and backsliding by rich countries marks the beginning of the final negotiations for a global climate treaty, according to many developing world participants at the U.N.-sponsored talks here.
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