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Q&A: Inclusive Sex Education Needed in African Schools
- Inter Press Service
With the exception of South Africa, most African countries criminalise same-sex relationships with imprisonment, while incidents of violence against gay women and men are poorly investigated and rarely taken to court.
WEST AFRICA: Helping Pirates to Plunder the Oceans
- Inter Press Service
West Africa is one of the world’s regions most affected by pirate fishers. Illegal, unreported or unregulated fishing has been devastating local livelihoods and ecosystems for decades. National fisheries management authorities are often helpless to protect their maritime resources.
Q&A: It’s Time Students Learned Beyond the Classroom
- Inter Press Service
An increasing number of universities and colleges across the Asian region today are running a programme called 'service-learning,' a teaching and learning strategy that has become synonymous with precisely what its name stands for.
JAPAN: Fresh Aid to Mekong Signals Rivalry with China -- Experts
- Inter Press Service
There is more to Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama’s pledge last week to extend at least 500 billion yen (5.6 billion U.S. dollars) in fresh assistance to the Mekong region than meets the eye, or so observers think.
POLITICS: Corruption in Afghanistan Cuts Both Ways
- Inter Press Service
Unfortunately for both Afghans and Americans, Afghan President Hamid Karzai and Barack Obama, his counterpart in Washington, missed a chance to reset the critical relationship between their two countries and move the dialogue in an honest direction.
POLITICS: Big Breakthroughs May Elude Obama's Asia Trip
- Inter Press Service
U.S. President Barack Obama arrives in Tokyo Thursday for the first stop of his four-nation trip to Asia, but an ongoing disagreement over realignment of U.S. forces in Japan, new roadblocks towards a free trade agreement (FTA) with South Korea, and continuing tussles over climate change, trade and currency issues with China have led the White House to downplay goals for the northeast Asian legs of trip.
Q&A: No 'One-Size-Fits-All' for Surging South-South Cooperation
- Inter Press Service
A major international conference on South-South cooperation is scheduled to take place early December in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi against the backdrop of a rising trend in regional economic integration in Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Latin America.
EDUCATION-URUGUAY: Literacy Starts at Home
- Inter Press Service
'At first I was embarrassed and had a hard time getting involved, but then I started relaxing. I like it a lot, because it helps me share different things with my kids,' says María José Jara, a young mother from a poor neighbourhood in this Uruguayan city, referring to an innovative and successful family literacy project.
ZAMBIA: Media Face Beatings and Attacks
- Inter Press Service
When journalists were beaten by political supporters for covering the president’s return trip from abroad, and cabinet ministers and police officers looked on without stopping it, it seemed to be the last straw in the victimisation of the media. But it was not.
DEVELOPMENT: Scandinavia, Ireland Tops in Humanitarian Aid
- Inter Press Service
Of the 22 major western donor nations, Norway, Sweden, Ireland and Denmark responded most effectively to humanitarian emergencies around the world in 2008, according to the latest of three annual assessments of humanitarian aid released here Tuesday by Development Assistance Research Associates (DARA).
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