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CARIBBEAN: Closer Ties with Latin America Jolted by EU Banana Deal
- Inter Press Service
As the European Union gets ready to sign an agreement with Latin America to end a 16-year trade war over bananas, Caribbean Community (Caricom) countries are expressing their frustration at the perceived double standards of the Latin Americans leaders.
CLIMATE CHANGE: 'We Are a Harbinger of What Is to Come'
- Inter Press Service
A small group of indigenous people have travelled here to the historic Copenhagen climate talks to show negotiators dramatic documentary videos they made about the immediate impacts of climate change on their homelands and way of life.
PARAGUAY: Migrants Mainly Young Undocumented Guaraní-Speakers
- Inter Press Service
Freddy Garcete, a 50-year-old painter who works in the construction industry, travelled to Spain in search of better wages two years ago, becoming one of the 500,000 Paraguayans forced to seek work abroad because of the conditions at home.
TRADE: 'Development More Important than Quick Conclusion of Doha'
- Inter Press Service
Governments expressed the will at the seventh ministerial meeting of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) to finish the Doha Round of trade negotiations as soon as possible. But the Africa Group still deems development to be a more important priority than a speedy conclusion.
Q&A: Risk Insurance and Climate Change
- Inter Press Service
The catastrophic risk insurance shared by the countries of the Caribbean could serve as a model for collective strategies for dealing with natural disasters resulting from climate change, John Nash, the World Bank's lead economist for Latin America and the Caribbean, told Tierramérica.
Q&A: Africa - High On Political Empowerment, Low On Education
- Inter Press Service
'It is clear that there are huge discrepancies within Sub-Saharan Africa, but overall the region is doing extremely well in terms of political empowerment,' says Saadia Zahidi, head of the Women Leaders and Gender Parity Programme at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in a telephone interview from Geneva.
PAKISTAN: Faithful Celebrate Eid Amid Fear, Use Online Services
- Inter Press Service
For Waqas Ahmed, 9, the sight of half a dozen gun-totting policemen—perched on the rooftop of the mosque in his neighbourhood—was very disturbing, to say the least. He had been used to seeing a security guard frisking the faithful during Friday prayers. But what he saw this time on his way to the mosque to say his Eid ul
AUSTRALIA: Children, Youth Feel the Heat of the Financial Crisis
- Inter Press Service
Once a week lunch order from the school canteen was something Emily and Damien’s children looked forward to, but since the global financial crisis began last year, little treats and outings are an absolute ‘No’.
Q&A: India's Anti-Women Laws Dropping from the Books
- Inter Press Service
The 30th anniversary of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) this month has brought women's rights champions from around the world to the United Nations to share their success stories. One is Sujata Manohar, who helped create a national law in India that bars sexual harassment in the workplace.
AFRICA: Campaign to Unite Against Malaria Kicks Off
- Inter Press Service
Growing up in Cameroon, Joseph-Antoine Bell and his friends used to think that by playing football they could get rid of malaria.
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