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ENERGY-DENMARK: Samsø Island, Beyond Fantasy
- Inter Press Service
On the Danish island of Samsø, a model of energy self-sufficiency, even cow's milk helps reduce emissions of climate changing gases.
GENDER: 'Truly Exciting If the U.S. Could Ratify CEDAW' - Part 2
- Inter Press Service
CEDAW or the U.N. Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Violence Against Women (CEDAW) was adopted by the U.N. General Assembly in 1979.
WATER-ZAMBIA: Worries Ahead of Flood Season
- Inter Press Service
The Zambezi is home to the fishing community on Mbeta Island. But after the river rose and swallowed their homes last year, they have learned to fear it as well.
GENDER: Laws, Budgets and Pigeonholes - Part 1
- Inter Press Service
The fight for women's rights came about hand in hand with the struggle for democracy, civil rights and national liberation in different countries and periods, says Ines Alberdi, executive director of UNIFEM.
KENYA: Foreigners in Their Homeland
- Inter Press Service
Resistance to a government scheme to upgrade housing in Nairobi's Kibera slum is enmeshed in economics, history and identity.
FILM: Challenging 500 Years of Globalisation
- Inter Press Service
To end poverty, you have to know how it began - with globalisation. No, not the 20th century variety engendered by multinationals and their friends at the IMF, World Bank and WTO. They just codified practices that kept developing countries poor.
DEVELOPMENT: Looking to the Past to Feed the Future
- Inter Press Service
As wheat rust threatened crops in the 1950s, a global effort to breed resistant wheat varieties led to 117 million hectares of cropland being protected from the deadly fungi and ensured the food security of 60 to 120 million rural households.
AFRICA: Water Summit Ends
- Inter Press Service
As the Second Africa Water Week ends, participants have reiterated that lack of access to clean water and adequate sanitation has a direct bearing on public health and the economy in Africa.
Q&A: Civil Society to Lose Major Supporter
- Inter Press Service
Human rights and democracy are causes that are never completely won, which is why civil society needs the support of philanthropists.
CHINA: Simmering Issues Boiling Up in Run-up to Obama Visit
- Inter Press Service
His victory speech is a smash hit on Internet sites; his image vies for popularity with those of communist China’s founding father Mao Zedong, and his book is a runway bestseller in this country’s big cities. But as China prepares to welcome him as the first black president of the United States, keen anticipation is mixed with unease.
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