Global Issues
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U.S.: Climate Policy Derailed by Corporate Interests
- Inter Press Service
As the U.S. climate delegation arrives in Copenhagen nearly empty-handed, watchdog groups back at home say they know why: a political system gone astray due to the influence of huge amounts of corporate cash.
CLIMATE CHANGE: Youth See Their Future in the Balance
- Inter Press Service
Young people from 44 countries are demanding that world leaders take decisive action on climate change. The time for talk is over, they declared at the end of a weeklong Children's Climate Forum here.
RIGHTS-TURKEY: Jailing Kudish Children to Undermine Dissent
- Inter Press Service
Turkey is signatory to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, but that does not stop minors in the country's Kurdish dominated eastern and southeastern regions from ending up with stiff jail sentences.
DEVELOPMENT: Indonesia Still Struggling with Disaster Management
- Inter Press Service
Despite being hit by powerful earthquakes this year, Indonesia is still reeling from the lack of an effective disaster management system that could prevent extensive loss of life and damage to property.
Q&A: South Must Harmonise To Take Advantage of Common Interests
- Inter Press Service
Fifty-five years after the Asia-Africa Conference in Bandung, Kwame Nkrumah's exhortation to the developing world to unite for socioeconomic transformation remains resonant.
POLITICS-NAMIBIA: SWAPO Wins
- Inter Press Service
The ruling South West Africa People's Organisation party (SWAPO) has won legislative elections in Namibia, with voters also giving incumbent President Hifikepunye Pohamba a second five-year term in office. New comers Rally for Democracy and Progress (RDP) will become the official opposition.
DEVELOPMENT-AFRICA: Collaborating on Sustainable Solutions
- Inter Press Service
Mauritian experts are helping set up cogeneration systems to feed the hunger for electricity in Tanzania, Zambia and elsewhere. An example of how appropriate technology can be applied to problems common to countries in the global South.
MEDIA-ARGENTINA: Fighting Stereotypes of Slums 'From the Inside'
- Inter Press Service
A group of local residents from Villa 1-11-14, a slum on the outskirts of the Argentine capital, put out a magazine aimed at breaking down the stereotypes propagated by the mainstream media, which associate neighbourhoods like theirs only with drugs, crime and marginalisation.
NICARAGUA: A Month of Free Fun and Games for Children
- Inter Press Service
More than one million poor children in Nicaragua will enjoy a massive Christmas celebration this month, complete with recreational activities and presents, organised by the government of President Daniel Ortega. But the opposition is criticising the project as populist and eccentric.
SUDAN: U.S. Envoy Faces Intense Scrutiny over Darfur Policy
- Inter Press Service
As U.S. special envoy to Sudan Scott Gration defended the Barack Obama administration's new policy toward the war-torn country on Capitol Hill Thursday, NGOs and a U.N. official reacted with disappointment and impatience.
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