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  1. Switching Off Market ‘Reforms’ in the Philippines

    - Inter Press Service

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    MANILA, Jan 27 (IPS) - After two decades of aggressively privatising its public services, the Philippines is beginning to realise the cost of mindless market reforms.

  2. New Writing on a School Wall

    - Inter Press Service

    KFAR QARA’, Northern Israel, Jan 27 (IPS) - Welcome to Bridge Over the Wadi primary school, one of five bi-national schools under the ‘Hand-in-Hand' initiative of the Centre of Jewish-Arab Education in Israel. The centre strives to bring children from both communities to learn together in Hebrew and Arabic in the hope that they'll bridge the divide between the two peoples.

  3. More Women Weigh Risks and Rewards of At-Home Birthing

    - Inter Press Service

    NEW YORK, Jan 27 (IPS) - It was a long and hard 10 hours of labour.

  4. South Sudan's Ceasefire Far from Conclusive

    - Inter Press Service

    ADDIS ABABA, Jan 26 (IPS) - When representatives of the warring factions of South Sudan signed an agreement to end hostilities at a luxury hotel in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on Thursday, Jan, 23, fervent applause and some high-pitched ululations erupted from the audience.

  5. When the Suicide Pilots Said Goodbye

    - Inter Press Service

    CHIRAN (Japan), Jan 26 (IPS) - They were known as the Kamikaze who swooped down on enemy ships with their bomb-laden planes – with the pilots inside. A museum here is now planning to register the last letters of Japan's famed World War II suicide bombers as a Unesco Memory of the World document. The museum is calling these records "symbolic" of the country's commitment to peace.

  6. Argentine Activists Win First Round Against Monsanto Plant

    - Inter Press Service

    CORDOBA, Argentina, Jan 25 (IPS) - Residents of a town in Argentina have won the first victory in their fight against biotech giant Monsanto, but they are still at battle stations, aware that winning the war is still a long way off.

  7. Ukraine Crackdown Hits Fight Against AIDS

    - Inter Press Service

    KIEV, Jan 25 (IPS) - Groups battling one of the world's worst HIV/AIDS epidemics say their task may get "catastrophically" harder following the introduction of controversial laws in Ukraine in response to months of anti-government protests.

  8. Decriminalisation Comes to Davos

    - Inter Press Service

    UNITED NATIONS, Jan 24 (IPS) - In the exclusive, rarified air of Davos, Thursday's attendees at the World Economic Forum shared in a whiff of decriminalisation at a panel on drug policy in the Swiss alpine city that included former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos, Texas Governor Rick Perry and the head of Human Rights Watch, Ken Roth.

  9. South Sudan’s Ceasefire Brings Hope For Half a Million Displaced

    - Inter Press Service

    JUBA, Jan 24 (IPS) - The overwhelming job of providing relief to the more than half a million displaced and wounded in South Sudan may have gotten a little easier with the signing of a ceasefire agreement last night in Addis Ababa, which is set to go into effect today.

  10. Kenya’s Scorched Earth Removal of Forest’s Indigenous

    - Inter Press Service

    NAIROBI, Jan 24 (IPS) - Kenyan government security forces are forcefully evicting thousands of people, including the indigenous Sengwer tribe, from the Embobut forest in western Kenya by burning homes and possessions in an effort to promote forest conservation, safeguard urban water access and "remove squatters".

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