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UGANDA: Palm Project Accused of Environmental Destruction
- Inter Press Service
It is a public-private partnership intended to reduce Uganda's dependence on imported vegetable oil while creating sustainable jobs and income for several thousand people. Its critics say it's destroying forests with no regard for environmental regulations.
US-EUROPE: An Ocean Apart in More Ways Than One
- Inter Press Service
As a delegation of European Union leaders descends on Washington Tuesday, a new report argues that 'European governments prefer to fetishise transatlantic relations, valuing closeness and harmony as ends in themselves, and seeking influence with Washington through various strategies of seduction or ingratiation'.
HEALTH: Vaccines, Antibiotics Could Slash Pneumonia Deaths
- Inter Press Service
Seven-month-old Marta lived in the central highlands of Guatemala when she came down with a high fever and rapid, shallow breathing.
ZIMBABWE: Watchdog Groups Urge Ban on Diamond Exports
- Inter Press Service
The past week brought new scrutiny of Zimbabwe's human rights record with the deportation of a senior U.N. official sent to investigate torture there, and demands by a coalition of civil society groups that the international community address human rights violations stemming from Zimbabwe's lucrative diamond industry.
LABOUR: Sorting Garbage - Green and Dignified Work
- Inter Press Service
More than 1,500 representatives of waste recyclers from 13 countries, and thousands of other visitors, including the host country Brazil's left-wing President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, met last week in São Paulo, demonstrating that they are no longer pariahs in our throw-away society.
ARGENTINA: 'Drugs Are Killing the Youngsters We're Feeding'
- Inter Press Service
'You often ask yourself why feed them if some wretch is just going to come along and sell them that rubbish,' says Isabel Ruiz, who runs the Las Brujas soup kitchen in Moreno, a poor neighbourhood on the west side of the Argentine capital.
CHILE: Teen Pregnancy, a Problem That Won’t Go Away
- Inter Press Service
Chile currently stands out for its spectacular progress in a number of health indicators, including maternal and child mortality and chronic malnutrition. But these successes obscure an acute social problem that refuses to yield: the steady rise in the number of teenage mothers.
ZIMBABWE: Far From the City’s Money, Villagers Barter Again
- Inter Press Service
In Chitsa, a village with some 2,000 inhabitants located about 250 km from Zimbabwe’s capital of Harare, it has become difficult to conduct everyday transactions involving money.
CLIMATE CHANGE: Jockeying for Position in Copenhagen
- Inter Press Service
The global climate change caravan has arrived in Barcelona for a last round of talks before the Copenhagen summit. What's at stake for Africa?
MIDEAST: Israel Divided Over 'Illegal' Children
- Inter Press Service
'Migrant workers bring with them a profusion of diseases - hepatitis, measles, tuberculosis, AIDS and drug addiction: Our critics can be as sanctimonious as they like, but unless we stop the wave of migrant workers, the whole character of the State of Israel, its Jewish character, will be under threat.'
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