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CAMBODIA: Climate Fight an Uphill Battle, But All’s Not Lost
- Inter Press Service
As one of the world’s poorest nations, Cambodia is by definition one of those least able to protect itself from the effects of climate change. As an agrarian society, it is one of those most susceptible to climate change.
WATER-UGANDA: Reducing Run-off To Protect Lake Victoria
- Inter Press Service
The Ggaba landing site on Lake Victoria is the nearest wholesale fish market to the Ugandan capital, Kampala. More than 6,000 people live and work in this fishing community.
Q&A: ‘Undermining ASEAN Human Rights Body Will Be Act of Suicide’
- Inter Press Service
A South-east Asian human rights mechanism launched here at a regional summit should be used by victims of rights violations to end oppression at home, says a member of this new body.
ZAMBIA : Fishing in Troubled Waters
- Inter Press Service
In two decades of fishing on the Zambezi, Darius Wamulume has never seen anything like this. With deep ulcerations and tissue decay, the fish he has caught recently is too unsightly to sell and too suspect to eat.
WATER-BOTSWANA: A Garden In the Heart of the Village
- Inter Press Service
Look, there's no drama with the borehole in Mokobeng. And that's the way it should be.
SOUTH-EAST ASIA: Civil Society Refuses to Cave in at ASEAN Summit
- Inter Press Service
Civil society representatives from South-east Asia’s developing democracies delivered an unequivocal message to the region’s leaders at a summit held here — they will not succumb to the whims of governments that suppress political and civil liberties at home.
SPAIN: A Princely Prize for Creators of Email, Cell-Phones
- Inter Press Service
U.S. engineers Martin Cooper and Raymond Tomlinson, considered the fathers of the mobile phone and email, respectively, received Spain's prestigious Prince of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research from Crown Prince Felipe on Friday.
AFRICA: Could Regulation Ease Fears Over Land Grabs?
- Inter Press Service
The 'land rush' across Africa by international investors should be regulated to protect smallholder farmers from deals that could leave them landless and hungry.
UGANDA: Rebuilding Home and Hearth
- Inter Press Service
Dusk gathers in the thickets of Palemy village, in the Gulu district of northern Uganda. Men, women, and children follow foot paths through the dark to the residence of Mzee Otto Yuvani.
CENTRAL AMERICA: The World's Most Violent Region
- Inter Press Service
Although the UNDP's Report on Human Development in Central America 2009-2010 says the region has the highest rates of non-political crime in the world, there are nevertheless plenty of opportunities to improve public security, analysts and experts say.
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