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DEVELOPMENT: Not Half-Way to Being Half There
- Inter Press Service
When world leaders meet at the United Nations in New York to review progress to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), they will face the difficult picture that with just five years left, almost everything is still left to accomplish.
CAMBODIA: Justice Goes Beyond Indictment of Khmer Rouge Leaders
- Inter Press Service
A war crimes tribunal in Cambodia may have reached a major milestone this week by indicting four former leaders of the genocidal Khmer Rouge. But much more needs to be done to ensure that the long-awaited trial is meaningful to the regime’s victims, analysts say.
South Africa's Progress on MDGs Questioned
- Inter Press Service
With five years left till the Millennium Development Goals' 2015 deadline, civil society groups say South Africa has made progress on some goals but regressed on others.
MEXICO: Global Forums to Focus on Abuses Against Undocumented Immigrants
- Inter Press Service
Civil society organisations from around the world are revving up to reveal how governments violate the rights of immigrants, especially the United States and Mexico, in two international meets to take place in the latter.
ARGENTINA: 'A Casino Is Not Progress'
- Inter Press Service
A small fishing community in the northern Argentine province of Chaco is pressing for a sustainable development programme to preserve their simple way of life and the natural habitat, rather than a mega-investment project that would draw upscale tourism instead of the people who now come to seek peace and quiet on the weekends.
SOUTHERN AFRICA: Social Protection, a Human Right?
- Inter Press Service
Without contributions from well wishers and government grants of between 68 and 104 dollars per month per child, the House of Mother and Child in Ennerdale, south of Johannesburg, would barely be able to provide for the 18 vulnerable children who call the place home.
BRAZIL: Development Trumps Environment on Election Agenda
- Inter Press Service
With Brazil's elections only about a fortnight away, there is already a clear winner: 'developmentalism.' This position espoused by the two main presidential candidates has relegated pressing environmental issues to a lowly place on the campaign agenda, in spite of the fact that the third contender represents the Green Party (PV).
AFRICA: 'Future Lies in a Free Trade Area From Cape To Cairo'
- Inter Press Service
African governments’ ambitious plan for a tripartite free trade area (FTA), stretching from South Africa to Egypt, could be more realistic than getting existing ineffective regional customs unions on the continent to work.
SOUTHERN AFRICA: Paying for Social Protection
- Inter Press Service
Despite the Southern Africa region sustaining an annual growth rate of six percent, the U.N. Summit on the Millennium Development Goals will hear that the majority of Southern Africans remain among the poorest people in the world.
ETHIOPIA: New Wheat Variety to Deal with Wheat-killer Diseases
- Inter Press Service
Like most farmers in Ethiopia, Jundi Hajji was expecting that the profit from his wheat harvest would be sufficient to feed his family of eight until the next harvest almost a year from now.
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