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SENEGAL: Farmers Anxious About Aid
- Inter Press Service
As part of a project to support community initiatives and fight poverty in South Senegal, the Sédhiou Local Development Fund received a donation of agricultural equipment worth more than half a million dollars in a bid to reverse the region's dramatic drop in agricultural production in recent years.
PERU: Women Workers Forced into Informal Economy
- Inter Press Service
In Peru, 51 percent of all jobs are generated by the informal economy, a sector that has a female face, as more than 60 percent of the women workers in the country are forced into informality, with only 15 percent having health coverage and a mere four percent enjoying retirement benefits.
WESTERN SAHARA: Activist Badly Weakened by Hunger Strike
- Inter Press Service
The firm stance taken by Western Sahara independence activist Aminatou Haidar, in her third week of a hunger strike in an airport in Spain's Canary Islands, contrasts with the weak position of the Spanish government vis-à-vis the Moroccan government, which it has failed to pressure to allow the activist to return to her homeland.
TRADE: U.S. Wants Its Way, But so Do Others
- Inter Press Service
Three minutes to speak about the world trade situation was a little more than U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk needed to sum up his country's position on trade; after eight years of talks to thrash out a single trade deal, he needed less time than that.
HEALTH-ZIMBABWE: Lots of Drugs, No Takers
- Inter Press Service
Martha* knows she and her two young sisters need medicine. She also knows where to get it — a clinic a few yards away from her home in Glen Norah, a high-density suburb in the Zimbabwean capital.
TRADE: Trilateral Treaty of the South
- Inter Press Service
Negotiations to form a trade alliance between countries of Africa, Asia and South America stepped up to a political level when ministers discussed the issue this week, giving the initiative a further boost.
DEVELOPMENT: Brazil's Powerhouse Bank
- Inter Press Service
With his slicked-back hair, neatly trimmed, close-cropped beard, and impeccably pressed suits, Luciano Coutinho looks like any other obscure Brazilian banker. But he is anything but an average banking man.
Q&A: ‘Ready, Willing and Able’, Vietnam Is Poised for Regional Role
- Inter Press Service
Professor Carl Thayer, a Vietnam expert with the Australian Defence Force Academy in Canberra, was in Hanoi last week for a multilateral conference on the issue of the South China Sea.
JAPAN: Aging Population Needs More than Short-Term Solutions
- Inter Press Service
Sachiko Yamada has been hoping to spend her retirement years traveling and living the good life. Today she devotes her time to taking care of her 90-year- old mother five days a week, leaving her with two days off while her mother goes to a care centre for the elderly.
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Women Facing Increased Risk
- Inter Press Service
Dominican organisations focused on the rights of women are bringing in assistance from all over Latin America to aid them in their fight against Article 30 in the recently approved constitution which states that the right to life is inviolable from conception until death.
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