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ASIA: Calls for Massive Financing Kick Off Climate Change Talks
- Inter Press Service
The need for adequate financing to assist developing countries in meeting the challenges of climate change was highlighted on Monday’s opening of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) negotiations in Thailand’s capital.
GERMANY: Crisis Shackles New Govt
- Inter Press Service
The economic crisis looks set to reduce the new government's commitments in development and environmental policy.
UGANDA-RIGHTS: Bride price: you feel you are family property
- Inter Press Service
John Owor is a paid spokesperson for brides and grooms. His job is to represent one of the parties during traditional marriage negotiations, which involves the payment of a bride price.
SIERRA LEONE: Banned opposition radio station goes to court
- Inter Press Service
Sierra Leone's largest opposition party has taken the country's media monitoring body to court for banning its radio station.
SOUTH AMERICA-AFRICA: Coming Together to Fight Poverty
- Inter Press Service
A declaration that puts an accent on the positions of the developing South and expresses a renewed commitment to cooperation in the fight against poverty and for development was signed by the leaders who met over the weekend in the second South America-Africa summit, on the Venezuelan island of Margarita.
LATIN AMERICA: Strides and Setbacks for Domestic and Rural Workers
- Inter Press Service
In the last few years, several Latin American countries have attempted to improve labour conditions for rural workers and domestics, whose labour rights have long been ignored. But the new laws, even those with limited scope, are not always enforced.
LATIN AMERICA: Strides and Setbacks for Domestic and Rural Workers
- Inter Press Service
In the last few years, several Latin American countries have attempted to improve labour conditions for rural workers and domestics, whose labour rights have long been ignored. But the new laws, even those with limited scope, are not always enforced.
MALAYSIA: Gov’t Urged to Stem the Tide of Child Trafficking
- Inter Press Service
'My family was starving. . . . I was sold to people who brought me here to work and feed my family back home,' said Ah Mun, a victim of child trafficking.
RIGHTS-AFRICA: Uganda women seek engendered recovery plan
- Inter Press Service
After two decades of war during which thousands of children were used as child soldiers and many women raped, Northern Uganda’s recovery plan is to be spent on building roads rather than helping the country’s most vulnerable.
KENYA: Slum Upgrade Is Land Grab - Nubians
- Inter Press Service
Her neighbours moved away one week ago, but Fatuma Abou sits against the tin door of her Kibera shack with a hijab over her head, chin on her knees and a defiant expression on her face when she looks up.
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