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NEPAL: Hopes High for Environmental Rights in New Constitution
- Inter Press Service
As the new federal republic of Nepal forges ahead with writing a new constitution, activists are demanding that environmental rights be enshrined in this important document.
POLITICS: U.N. Affirms Israeli-Hamas War Crimes Report
- Inter Press Service
A 575-page blistering report by Justice Richard Goldstone detailing war crimes in Gaza last December is refusing to die despite an aggressive Israeli smear campaign to kill it.
BURMA: U.S. Mission’s Meeting with Ethnic Minorities Signals Hope
- Inter Press Service
The United States government’s diplomatic foray into military-ruled Burma made early inroads into an area sealed off to United Nations envoys in recent years—meeting the country’s oppressed ethnic minorities.
CLIMATE CHANGE: Carbon Trading Welcomed, Criticised
- Inter Press Service
A visit from Dutch contractors to Niassa Province, in northwestern Mozambique has got communities excited about the prospect of a carbon credit scheme in the area.
LATIN AMERICA: Journalistic Prize for 'Grey' Depictions of Poverty
- Inter Press Service
The second 'Latin America and the Millennium Development Goals' Journalism Prize, sponsored by the UNDP and IPS, was awarded Thursday in the Chilean capital in a ceremony addressed by the head of the U.N. agency, Helen Clark.
LESOTHO: AIDS Orphans get Helping Hand
- Inter Press Service
Fifteeen-year-old Ntsebeng Tlokotsi* sighs with relief as she is given 140 dollars. Along with it she receives a bag of maize meal and cooking oil. It is a government handout, and she qualifies for this only because both her parents are dead.
ARGENTINA: Child Benefits Expanded to Unemployed and Informal Workers
- Inter Press Service
A new monthly family allowance of nearly 50 dollars per child that will be paid out as of December to parents who are unemployed or work in the informal economy in Argentina was heralded by experts as an extraordinary step forward in terms of social policy.
AFRICA: Drug Subsidy Key to Anti-Malaria Effort
- Inter Press Service
Just three percent of malaria-infected children in Africa get World Health Organisation-recommended drugs. One expert has equated this to a death sentence for sick children.
Q&A: Put the New Women's Agency in Africa
- Inter Press Service
On Sep. 14, the United Nations (UN) General Assembly adopted a resolution that gave the green light to the creation of a new U.N. agency for women.
ECONOMY: Ghana Boosts Apprenticeships for Jobless Young Women
- Inter Press Service
The small shack beside Marjorie Patterson's house encloses evidence of a hard day's work. Bags overflow with the bold prints of traditional African fabrics.
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