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GENDER: Zimbabwe Basket Fund Takes Off
- Inter Press Service
A basket fund aimed at increasing the economic participation of women in Zimbabwe, has been relaunched after a start which faltered due to the delayed appointment of the new government earlier this year.
SOUTH AFRICA-RIGHTS: Push To Protect Sex Workers During World Cup
- Inter Press Service
Ahead of the 2010 soccer World Cup have fueled renewed calls for the decriminalisation of sex work in South Africa.
THAILAND: Malaysian PM Heads to Thailand for Groundbreaking Visit
- Inter Press Service
Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak will pen a new chapter in his country’s relationship with Thailand during an upcoming visit. He will be the first Malaysian leader to venture into Thailand’s southern provinces, where an insurgency has been raging for nearly six years.
ENERGY-MEXICO: Big Plans for Ethanol from Algae
- Inter Press Service
The Mexican company BioFields will begin production in 2014 of an algae-based biofuel at a site 300 kilometres from its border with the United States, which is likely to be its biggest customer.
EGYPT: New Money Boosts Puppy Mill Industry
- Inter Press Service
A few years ago, dog markets were dull places with pooch purveyors keeping an eye open for more lucrative business.
INDIA: Mobiles For Gender Empowerment
- Inter Press Service
The Indian Government should consider providing mobile phones at a subsidy to women from the bottom of the pyramid since it helps improve their status and welfare, says a recent report.
RIGHTS-LAOS: Improved Roads Exact A Price - Part 3
- Inter Press Service
Lao women express their equality by being as mobile as men. The numbers astride motorbikes in particular, are the same as those of men. But there is a cost.
CLIMATE CHANGE-US: Citizens Back Action, Despite Lobbying Surge
- Inter Press Service
As both Washington and the international community come gradually closer to taking substantive action on climate change at a high-level conference in Copenhagen, a side effect of this progress has been a parallel increase in the intensity of campaigns opposing such action — which may be a factor in the slight dip in the U.S. public's concern about climate change.
U.S.: Public Most Unilateralist in 40 Years, Poll Finds
- Inter Press Service
Despite President Barack Obama's emphasis on diplomatic engagement, the U.S. public has become more inward-looking and unilateralist than at any time since the early stages of the Vietnam War, according to the latest in a series of quadrennial surveys on foreign policy attitudes released Thursday by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press.
HEALTH: Raising the Recommended CD4 Count for ART
- Inter Press Service
Newborn babies in South Africa will now be treated for HIV, regardless of their CD4 count. President Jacob Zuma announced several new measures which focus on expanding the country’s anti-retroviral (ARV) programme, especially in terms of mother-to-child-transmission, and for those with both TB and HIV.
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