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GENDER-AFRICA: Some Progress Amidst Continuing Challenges
- Inter Press Service
The Beijing Platform for Action in 1995 set out an agenda to address gender equality in priority areas, including poverty, education, and health care. It also committed governments to address violence against women, equitable access to economic resources and decision-making power.
AFGHANISTAN: Insurgents Infiltrate Security Forces
- Inter Press Service
A Taliban fighter infiltrated the Afghan police force, killing seven Afghan officers and British soldiers. Similar attacks have taken the lives of U.S. troops.
LEBANON: Migrant Women Dying on the Job
- Inter Press Service
October and November have been bloody months for Lebanon's migrant domestic workers - over the last five weeks nine women have died. Most deaths have been reported as suicide.
POLITICS: U.N. in Final Push for 2015 Development Goals
- Inter Press Service
A special U.N. summit of world leaders, scheduled to take place next year, is expected to make 'a final push' to help reach the world body's widely-touted development goals by the targeted date of 2015.
CLIMATE CHANGE: Health at Risk
- Inter Press Service
The impacts of climate change on human health will require new approaches to development, based on mitigation and adaptation programmes in line with policies that ensure equal access to health care.
BOTSWANA-POLITICS: I Lost the Election, But I Am a Winner
- Inter Press Service
When Kgomotso Mogami threw her name into the hat to contest the Gaborone Central parliamentary seat it was easy for many people to write her off.
CLIMATE CHANGE: The Danish Example
- Inter Press Service
Whether a new internationally binding treaty to reduce greenhouse gases and forestall climate change will be signed next month remains to be seen. What is clear though, is that if there is a place in the world that deserves to be the stage where this treaty ought to be signed, it is the Danish capital of Copenhagen.
CHILE: Mapuche Detainees Claim They Were Framed
- Inter Press Service
'This lie has got to end,' said a sobbing Luisa Marilef, a 55-year-old Mapuche woman who says her son's arrest and prosecution under Chile's anti-terrorism law was part of a set-up by the police and prosecutors.
CLIMATE CHANGE-MEXICO: A Policy of Pretence
- Inter Press Service
Although it is the second largest emitter of greenhouse gases in Latin America and the Caribbean, after Brazil, and will be hosting next year's United Nations climate meeting, Mexico is heading to the Cophenhagen summit practically empty-handed.
Q&A: 'Karzai Assigned a Rabbit to Take Care of the Carrot'
- Inter Press Service
In the aftermath of national elections widely condemned as fraudulent, the United States and its allies are wondering what to do about Afghanistan.
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