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Q&A: CEDAW - Signed, Sealed and Largely Left on the Shelf
- Inter Press Service
Mauritania formally adopted the Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women in 2001, but in the eight years since, it has had limited effect on the status of women.
SOUTH AFRICA: Legal Victory Offers Little Relief For Sex Workers
- Inter Press Service
More than seven months after the Cape High Court ruled in favour of the Sex Workers Education and Advocacy Taskforce (SWEAT), interdicting the police for harassment and arrests, sex workers are losing the daily battles against police and criminal elements on the streets.
SUDAN: Peace Agreement Proving Less Than Comprehensive
- Inter Press Service
The 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) ended one of Africa's longest and complex civil wars, with nominal agreement reached on security, wealth sharing, and governance issues. But there are renewed fears that conflict could erupt again in the country as divisions between the north and the south deepen.
CLIMATE CHANGE: Angry Greenhouse Gas Victims Demand Action
- Inter Press Service
‘Angry’ is not the adjective that comes to mind when you first meet Nelly Damaris Chepkoskei.
POLITICS-NAMIBIA: Waiting at the Polls
- Inter Press Service
'We have been here since four in the morning, my baby is tired,' says Melisia Shinedhimha (24) outside the polling station in Okuruyangava, one of Windhoek’s poorest townships.
BOLIVIA: Women Clamour for Right to Land
- Inter Press Service
Despite major advances in land distribution in Bolivia, single, widowed and undocumented women in this South American country have little chances of owning rural lands due to the patriarchal traditions and customary practices of indigenous peoples, in violation of international instruments and conventions protecting women’s rights.
HONDURAS: Miracle in the Mangrove Forest
- Inter Press Service
The beating sun in southern Honduras doesn't stop a group of women from throwing themselves into the task of protecting and recuperating a mangrove forest on the Pacific coast.
BALKANS: Apologising to Sterilised Roma Women - Slovakia's Turn
- Inter Press Service
Rights activists are hoping a landmark announcement by the Czech government regretting forced sterilisation of Roma women in the past will push politicians in neighbouring Slovakia to follow suit.
CLIMATE CHANGE: China’s Carbon Commitment—Low But Sure
- Inter Press Service
China and the United States are wrestling to claim leadership during the upcoming climate change talks in Copenhagen, unveiling proposals to cut greenhouse gases one after the other this week and setting the stage for some tough negotiations. But gauntlets thrown, both face challenges in achieving their pledged targets.
ROMANIA: Business Crowds Out Bucharest Life
- Inter Press Service
Competing with the destruction caused by former Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu’s ‘systematisation’ plans might be hard. But an official report says that 'the aggression on Bucharest’s architectural heritage, documented since 1989, exceeds Ceausescu’s acts.’’
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