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WATER-AFRICA: Civil Society Demands Action, Not Words
- Inter Press Service
'No more commitments... We have had enough of the promises. Can we please see something happening on the ground? Right now, it is business as usual and that’s why Africa is off-track on the MDG target.'
AUSTRALIA/SRI LANKA: Untangling the Knotty Issue of Human Smuggling
- Inter Press Service
It is a story that spans three islands, across the breadth of the Indian Ocean. That is, of hundreds of boat people sailing the rough seas in unseaworthy vessels, risking life and limb in their desperate attempt at a new lease of life.
U.S.: Increasingly Isolated in Key Regions
- Inter Press Service
More than a year after his election, President Barack Obama appears to be dashing hopes both in the Arab world and in Latin America that he would bring major changes in U.S. policy toward their respective regions.
AGRICULTURE-ZIMBABWE: New Methods to Maximise Yields
- Inter Press Service
Last season, for the first time in her more than 20 years as a farmer, Elizabeth Runema harvested her maize crop at the beginning of February.
CLIMATE CHANGE: Africa In the Global Carbon Trade
- Inter Press Service
Carbon trading, as promoted by the Kyoto Protocol's Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), has become a key global strategy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
SWAZILAND: Help Sex Workers - Senator
- Inter Press Service
It is one of the world’s oldest professions, dating so far back that it is even mentioned in the Bible. But in the deeply cultural and religious country of Swaziland, Senator Thuli Msane stirred a hornet’s nest when she publicly challenged a new strict bill opposing prostitution.
CLIMATE CHANGE: Africa Told 'Stop Playing the Victim'
- Inter Press Service
Critics of carbon trading, a strategy meant to combat global warming, say the buying and selling of carbon credits is being exploited.
MEXICO: DNA Tool to Trace Missing Kids
- Inter Press Service
Andrea C. was eight years old when two unidentified women took her from her home in a neighbourhood on the north side of the Mexican capital, in September 2005. Four years later, she is still missing.
CLIMATE CHANGE: Signs and Portents of a Hostile New World
- Inter Press Service
Lawrence Amos travelled from the Arctic at the top of the world to the tropical middle to recite in a soft voice the ongoing destruction of his home by climate change.
MIDEAST: Gaza Graduates Search for Vitamin W
- Inter Press Service
'We fast a long time,' says Gaza graduate Mona Ismail, 23. 'Only to break our fast on a piece of onion.'
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