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SOUTH AMERICA-AFRICA: Summit for South-South Cooperation
- Inter Press Service
South American and African leaders are meeting over the weekend on the Caribbean island of Margarita in their second summit in three years, to forge stronger cooperation between the two regions and discuss their positions with regard to a number of pressing international concerns.
G20: Leaders Agree on Reforms, Poor Still 'Out in the Cold'
- Inter Press Service
World leaders at the two-day G20 Summit in the U.S. city of Pittsburgh agreed to work cooperatively to recover from the global economic crisis and create structural reforms with long-term growth as the goal.
RIGHTS-EL SALVADOR: Anti-Gay Reform Fails in Congress
- Inter Press Service
Constitutional reforms that would ban same-sex couples from marrying and adopting children in El Salvador failed to obtain the required number of votes in Congress.
SOUTHERN AFRICA: Journey of a Working River: the Orange-Senqu
- Inter Press Service
In the steep valleys of Lesotho's Maluti mountains, women carry yellow plastic buckets of water across fields of dark-brown earth; a group of men form a human chain to pass rocks between them to build a small dam wall across a mountain stream; clothes are being washed in rivers; and men draped in blankets ride donkeys or horses along the roadside.
TRADE-AFRICA: Russia 'Could be Left Behind'
- Inter Press Service
Russia should reconsider its trade policy towards African states if it wants to keep up with the likes of China, the European Union (EU) and the U.S., say experts.
G20: Rising Above the G8
- Inter Press Service
Something that was perhaps only half-expected has happened in Pittsburgh: the G20 has moved on from being an event to becoming an institution.
G20: Europeans Resist More Clout for South in IMF
- Inter Press Service
An initiative to reform the International Monetary Fund (IMF) voting structure is causing tension at the G20 here as European delegations resist a U.S.-spearheaded effort to give greater clout to emerging economies, primarily because it would decrease European voting power.
/CORRECTED REPEAT*/UGANDA: Carbon Trading Scheme Pushing People off Their Land
- Inter Press Service
As the world's attention increasingly turns to the impact of climate change, at least one project intended to reduce global carbon emissions is accused of displacing indigenous persons from their home in Uganda.
G20: IMF Finds a New Unpopularity
- Inter Press Service
When some Eastern European states faced economic collapse as the financial crisis took hold, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) stepped in and offered governments huge loans.
GUATEMALA: Making the Judge Selection Process More Transparent
- Inter Press Service
In Guatemala, where corruption is so notorious that a U.N.-sponsored commission against impunity was set up to strengthen and purge the country's justice system, a new process has been put in place to make the selection of judges more transparent.
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