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INDIA: Single Women Break Their Silence, Challenge Societal Norms
- Inter Press Service
It has been more than eight years since the January 2001 earthquake struck the Indian state of Gujarat, but Hansa Rathore still cannot quite shake off memories of that not too distant past — all because it left her a widow.
U.S.: Clinton Calls for Strengthened IAEA Powers
- Inter Press Service
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Wednesday called for strengthening the authority of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to inspect suspected nuclear-related facilities and ruled out lifting sanctions against North Korea until it took 'verifiable and irreversible' steps toward denuclearisation.
WATER-MOZAMBIQUE: Remote Villages Out of Sight, Out of Mind?
- Inter Press Service
'This is where we get our water from,' says a villager on the footpath leading out of Mcondece. Branches and other debris float on the surface of the sluggish, murky brown creek.
KENYA: AIDS Prevention Amongst Drug Users a Challenge
- Inter Press Service
The United Nation Office on Drug and Crime (UNODC) claims that Kenya has more drug users than any other East African country. UNODC estimates there are 100,000 cocaine users, 200,000 using opiates like heroin and four million who smoke cannabis.
HEALTH: One in Five Infants Still Lacks Essential Vaccines
- Inter Press Service
A record 106 million infants were vaccinated in 2008 - the highest rate of immunisation ever - according to a report released Wednesday in Washington, but NGOs are calling for an increase in funding to fill the gap affecting the world's poorest nations and communities.
RIGHTS-CHINA: Children Among 'Missing' Xinjiang Detainees
- Inter Press Service
'It was late in the evening, and we were just getting ready for bed. Three men in black police uniforms and another four in military camouflage came to our house. They said my sons have been involved in attacks against Chinese... they twisted their arms and led them away,' said Kamalutdin K.
PERU: On Track to Meeting Poverty Reduction Target
- Inter Press Service
Peru is only one percentage point away from halving the proportion of its people living in extreme poverty, one of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) agreed by the international community in 2000, according to a United Nations report.
AFRICA: Counting on Media for Good Governance
- Inter Press Service
While campaigning in the last election, Margaret Roka Mauwa, Member of the Malawian Parliament, did not promise her voters that when she won she would buy them coffins.
COLOMBIA: Sexual Violence as Weapon of War
- Inter Press Service
Sexual violence is used as a weapon of war in Colombia by all parties in the country’s longstanding armed conflict, and its main victims are women and girls, states a report recently released by Intermón Oxfam, backing up claims made repeatedly by national and international human rights groups.
ECONOMY-US: Deep Cuts Push Californians to Edge
- Inter Press Service
They call it Tortilla Flats - a haphazard cluster of tents and tarps sprawling across a sidewalk and a vacant lot smack in the middle of Fresno, a city of 500,000 in California's Central Valley.
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